Synergistic Research SR Orange Fuse snake oil ?

[botrytis]

1 hour ago, fas42 said:

 

 

Nothing strange about what is going on ... contact noise, the electrical misbehaviour when two metal surfaces are just pressed together to make a connection, without any attempt to stabilise the environment, by say soldering the joint, has been the nemesis of best SQ in audio since forever. Contact enhancers of all sorts can and have been used - depending upon the materials used, and how they age, say solvents that evaporate, the spectrum of contact noise will vary over time - for better, or worse! Which you will hear, depending upon everything ...

 

"More relaxed", "flow effortlessly", "improved imaging" are markers for less contact noise degrading what you hear - what unfortunately can happen is that these enhancers lose effectiveness over a period of time; which means, either periodically redo them, or use something better to do the job.

 

 

Frank you are so full of it.

[botrytis]

Of course, Frank, you would disagree. It is your arrogant attitude that causes this. You don't listen to science or any reasonable explanation. Read (listening - which my wife points out I can improve also) and understand is key - also you MAY BE WRONG. But that doesn't stop your religious audiophile reaction.

 

A good scientist understands that information improves and may change over time. One doesn't double down on the nonsense; they accept the factual data and move on. YOU DO NOT.

[bambadoo]

Science? What science is behind these fuses? Where is the spec sheet?

[fas42]

Not arrogance ... experience. I discovered 35 years ago that the quality of the typical audio connection makes a difference, having never ever heard of such a factor, before that time - from any audiophile publication, etc. And this has been confirmed over and over again, over the years, in all the systems I've dealt with. So, it's part of my tool kit, and always will be ... of course, some people will always run to the Big Expert in the room and say, "Pretty please sir, what do you think ...?!" ... but that's not my way ...

 

I've said a number of times, that I can't bear listening to a rig that has obvious connection quality issues for any length of time; it has a very distinctive distortion signature which just grates, and once recognised you hear it in every track played.

[botrytis]

On 7/26/2023 at 1:41 AM, bambadoo said:

Science? What science is behind these fuses? Where is the spec sheet?

 

Exactly what I am saying. People believe these can change sound, they believe it so they hear it. Our brains do all types of things like that.

 

I am on your side in this.

[One and a half]

On 7/26/2023 at 4:41 PM, bambadoo said:

Science? What science is behind these fuses? Where is the spec sheet?

I’ve never seen an I2T let through or discrimination curve published by Synergistic fuses, just a lot of verbiage. Littlefuse have a good paper on fuse selection, it’s quite an ordeal to select the right fuse, rather than choose between marketing of orange or blue fuses.