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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I always bring samples for other than swiss coffee. Lighting is almost never consistent. Again, I made color correction choices based on my abilities and preferences. I didn't have a "blind" test to find a matching or choice of color (that certainly is ridiculous). Hey, I bet your eyes have...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    George Massenburg is best known for his recordings of Earth, Wind and Fire but that group was headed by Maurice White, who’s back up band was Ramsey Lewis In the 60’s on ARGO (great sonics). I appraised his recording studio on Corinth in W.LA. years ago. He is a techo-geek. Jennifer Warnes...
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    Well that it something I have a knack at, memorizing structures and colors. You are so certain of yourself. Not just my interior walls (previously dirty mauve, now salmon pink) but my walkway in front and my 22 rental properties (well that's too easy as they are all interior painted swiss...
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    The problem with you is that you fit everything into the same category without exemptions. In my testing of fuse preferences with my audio friends, we used the SAME recordings and mostly the identical CDs and LPs to test brought from house to house. So, we eliminated what we thought we heard...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Right, you don't know who my dealer is and is now a prominent member on WBF and friends with many manufacturers, reviewers and members of WBF. I trust him more than reviewers (I'm partial to some, beginning with J. Gordon Holt). I'm 68 and only trusted one other dealer as much who relocated...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    That's why I prefer to audition equipment at home for a substantial duration when I am uncertain (which is often). Also, preferences often change when something else in the system changes (the reason for many of my changes in equipment-but I've kept the same analog system for 18 years now...
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    Well you know what, I purchased the Lampizator Poseidon without really understanding why it sounds great. I couldn't find a schematic, don't know what DAC chip(s) are used (my friends seem very concerned with the chip-I take it as a totality of design), if it's R2R or Delta-Sigma, or other. I...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    As a 22+ year beta tester for a boutique cable manufacturer, I burn the cable in for 24 hours prior to testing. The CD transport indicates a 400 hour burn in but great results immediately. Yes, that was true. The Lampizator DAC per my dealer told me flat out it requires 72 hours minimum...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    People have accused me of being an engineer (I was a commercial real estate appraiser for 28 years specialized fraud detection/expert witness, an attorney at 22, superintendent/designer/materials purchaser for a pair of apt. buildings and a tract of single family homes-I am extremely detail...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Look, you don't understand that I was supporting your extreme scientific testing of results. My "testing" for my system was beneficial because the results were so conclusive of fuse direction of the test. I wasn't testing the entire system, just those equipment pieces that I chose at the time...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    The best fuse is no fuse, sonically. That's why Grover installed circuit breakers instead of a fuse. Just as the fewer the component parts, the better, if the result is better sound (the Westminster Lab REI amps have fewer parts than Gryphon, Boulder, Aries Cerat amps yet are quite competitive).
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Audio marketing has caused me to spend money unnecessarily, luckily, mostly stuff that's relatively cheap for me. I also tried other SR products, since long gone or not purchased such as the Atmosphere XL, Bass spring thing, Atmosphere Euphoria SX digital cable, etc. I've turned down many...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Correct or incorrect, I start with the amps and work toward the source. Maybe that's incorrect but I find that starting with the universal (amps) to the specific and multiple (sources) is more logical than the reverse. I want all sources to sound their best in one amp position. Too many...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Thank you. I am more interested in listening to music than testing for reproduction errors. I spent good time finding what I like though without your extensive testing. I've spent more time on this forum than any in the past year, maybe 3 years (my 2 ASR audiogon forums).
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I think he was making a joke, sarcastic. He did not anticipate anyone doing that (I certainly hope not). My Grover Huffman pre-amp and phono pre-amp are unfused. My Grover Huffman monoblock amps could be unfused with a circuit breaker replacement. It's all about the design and protection...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Okay, let's say you are correct. Maybe the fuse is not directional. However, by flipping the fuse in a component if it elicits a better or worse sound (not scientifically tested, 100% perception). That's sufficient reason to flip the fuse to the preferred sound, whatever the miswiring or...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    That's Grover Huffman, my friend who builds his own equipment and sells cables (he wrote his own patent-not college educated). He also decries tweaks, but he changed his amps from fused to circuit breakers after he heard the difference a fuse makes in the same amps at my home. Yes, everything...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Despite SR's explanation, sonically, all my friends and I have switched to Acme treated fuses. SR explanation could be correct though but their fuses just don't measure up in our systems. The SR blue fuse certainly improved our earlier sound over a cheap stock glass or ceramic fuse (can be...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    That may be fine and work great in your audio system. Unless it is a combo integrated amp, source and speaker all in one, assembling an audio system is not generally easy. Building one's own using electrical and acoustical sound knowledge is challenging to most of us (like me). Assembling a...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Is Analog Scott a pseudonym for Amir of ASR (probably not because he isn't as abrasive as Amir who follows my posts on several forums). Following Amir's chain of thoughtlessness would explain the nonsense "prove it to me with measurements or your wrong" and the science is there (really, all of...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    You are correct. I placed my post in the wrong forum; however, Analog Scott is ..... Such an expert, such a superior intellect and hearing capability. You wish you could produce, master and create music as I do and I'm just a small peg in the music chain but my friends are big pegs. I will...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I won't. I think Crump died about 2 decades ago and don't know anything about him.
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Sometimes it takes Revolution Audio/distributor 3 weeks for fuses to arrive. I suspect they are made in batches and run out of popular sizes often, then make a new batch. They really did name the company after the roadrunner? Not a coincidence? Acme is such a common product name for a...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Read my reply and my unscientific but verifiable test post. Your statement sounds like ASR-if the objective measurements are unavailable, then the difference does not exist and the subject is closed for evaluation at a future time when such testing can observe the difference if it exists. I...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Maybe the evidence is lacking due to the inability to find the evidence. Sound is a complex physics of electrons moving through a substrate (air for us) that is detectible after striking an object (our hearing apparatus-tympani). Of course, it is more complex than that, unlike light. There is...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    SR does not use graphene as a fuse wire. That's impossible-2 atoms thick. 3 layers-graphene-non conductive. Maybe it is in a matrix of materials, usually mixed with silver. It is used in a coating such as on their duplexes.
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I'm just catching up with this forum. 3 dimensional graphene is called graphite and has poor electrical properties. I've gone through red/black/blue/orange/purple SR fuses. None are neutral sounding. Now they have pink and white. Well, they all color the sound which I do not attribute to...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Audio subpanel only with 10 gauge solid core copper wiring: 8 duplex on the wall with 4 circuit breakers, one circuit breaker dedicated to each pair of duplexes (that's four plugs in two separate duplexes, four locations=total 16 plugs in 8 duplexes). My breaker box contains one single buss...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I had the turntable/power regulator (VPI SDS unit) plugged into the main system duplex versus the adjacent pair 6 feet away with a different breaker. The sound was thinner, less robust and dynamic. So, I added a new distribution power box which is neutral into the main system duplex/breaker...
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    I have 4 pairs of duplexes with their own circuit breakers in a audio only subpanel for my listening room. All are wired with identical 10 awg copper wiring and the two being used have 4 Synergistic Research Blue duplexes. I noticed that each circuit breaker's pairs have different sound. It...

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