Swiss Digital Fuse Box Anyone?
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You are welcome. The thanks should also be directed toward (or at least credit also given too) Steve Williams, FYI. We were on the phone one night and he had mentioned these (which were, at the time, available on Amazon in 10-packs) as a solution to a component I had that wasn't as snug as I had wished it to be.
BTW, I ordered a SDFB MAX, along with the Snake River Audio Takshaka 8" pig tail and a graphene Sluggo today. I'll probably have everything here with 3 weeks and I also discovered a bonus! The QSA Red and Black fuse gets to stay in the Power Supply of my amp. That one was in place for the PS control unit circuit board, so the aforementioned will be for the (32A rated) main Power Supply fuse. I currently have a Takshaka PC, so the only thing I will hear will be the effect of losing a cheap ceramic 10 dollar fuse and replacing it with a graphene Sluggo and a SDFB MAX.
Tom
BTW, I ordered a SDFB MAX, along with the Snake River Audio Takshaka 8" pig tail and a graphene Sluggo today. I'll probably have everything here with 3 weeks and I also discovered a bonus! The QSA Red and Black fuse gets to stay in the Power Supply of my amp. That one was in place for the PS control unit circuit board, so the aforementioned will be for the (32A rated) main Power Supply fuse. I currently have a Takshaka PC, so the only thing I will hear will be the effect of losing a cheap ceramic 10 dollar fuse and replacing it with a graphene Sluggo and a SDFB MAX.
Tom
So I decided to try marriage again a month or so ago, since the first one was clearly defective. And being as my lovely wife is Mexican, she doesn't know my music. But what she has heard, she loves. I decided to crank up *and I mean CRANK) Pink Floyd's The Wall. I have an OG Japanese pressing which is arguably better sounding than my original UK Vinyl (3rd batch) pressing. Anyway, this is the only album I own besides Daft Punk RAM that has put my Ayre amp in protective mode, due to the massive amounts of bass that my Focus SE Speakers put out.
So I turned it up, and kept creeping it higher until it was wide open. Still, crystal clear highs, almost zero bloat, with a solid, concrete shaking bass and kick drum. I was puzzled all day yesterday until I woke up today with a fresh mind and thought "what the hell did I change/tweak?" And it finally hit me that I haven't turned up The Wall since installing my SDFB many months ago.
TL/DR; Proof it's not listening bias or too many drinks (we didn't have any alcohol Saturday) or it was all just in our heads. I know my system very well. And this album kicks the internal breaker of my amp when playing at "43". Wide open (KX-5 Twenty) is "46" which I have almost never achieved outside of very few Classical compositions. I felt it still had plenty of headroom left and absent of any audible clipping.
So I turned it up, and kept creeping it higher until it was wide open. Still, crystal clear highs, almost zero bloat, with a solid, concrete shaking bass and kick drum. I was puzzled all day yesterday until I woke up today with a fresh mind and thought "what the hell did I change/tweak?" And it finally hit me that I haven't turned up The Wall since installing my SDFB many months ago.
TL/DR; Proof it's not listening bias or too many drinks (we didn't have any alcohol Saturday) or it was all just in our heads. I know my system very well. And this album kicks the internal breaker of my amp when playing at "43". Wide open (KX-5 Twenty) is "46" which I have almost never achieved outside of very few Classical compositions. I felt it still had plenty of headroom left and absent of any audible clipping.
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