I ‘only’ have 200 hours in my 2 Master fuses, still a long way to go then.
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Sheridd did these not sound good from the start?..your SR Master fuses should be sounding good right out of the box…
With your Masters at 200 hours they should be sounding great…
Keep at it though friend if oddly they haven’t yet they should very soon.
Best wishes
No, I’m happy with them currently at 200 hours, it’s just you guys seem to indicate they still have a lot more to give.
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The Sr Master were superb out of the box…and yes they do get better with time…
Just enjoy the ride …let your remain on 24/7 …You will soon be arriving at new plateaus
on a regular basis…each better than before.
Thank God these are not like the Purples burning in…they were rough …
Just this afternoon…yet another amazing listening session…just blossoming and
becoming more revealing…
You have a lot to look forward too…
Best wishes
The top on my DSD Jr. came unstuck from the top. It is finished on both sides so flip it over if you scratch one side.
By the way, you guys make the new fuse sound way more interesting than the Holo Red guys are doing in that other thread.
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Hey pal…
Replying to Al…
It is very hard to suppress the the wows smiles resulting from a really really good upgrade…
Right from the get go fresh out of the box…
Compared to the Purple fuse very little if any burn in woes …yet the SR Master seems
to improve evolve from really amazing to better still…to now what will I experience hearing
it over the passing of time…
Al while you have some very very amazing gear and even better arriving soon (hopefully)
my conviction is Al that one fuse in your P20 and other power plants you may have; will
in fact by way of a much improved conductivity of the melt wire in the fuse allow your system’s
response to be much much better because the meltwire conductivity be that much more improved!!!
As you may gather my system is quite good but rather humble in contrast with yours…
My xlr ic are Nordost Red Dawn sillver over 6 nines copper as well as speaker cables…
My power amp is a poor man’s version of a Pass Labs 350.8. My Parasound JC5 is a
distillation of 2 JC1+ onto 1 chassis with the first 12 watts Class A then on to 400 watts Class A/B…
My speakers are the Focal Aria 948s with tnf tweets sadly no BE…
My entire system is powered by a P15…and this where my SR Master fuse is installed.
Equipped as it is now the sound stage is breath taking whether playing at very very low levels
say 25-40 db base levels reaching to 77 ish dbs…to very high mid 90’s db on occasion to just
to “rock out”…my system is for me flat out amazing. Very sensitive to whatever tweaks or
“de-tweaking” I may do…
The delicate nuances that suddenly appear in a vapor of space fade away trailing off…
With symphonic music this is rather stunning as well as jazz…on Jazz at the Pawn Shop
the vibraphone’s every nuance bloom blossom and the atmosphere are played back
with a you are there feeling…
With your system…my sincere thinking…is that the SR Master installed in your P20…
will do more for you than even my on system…
If you haven’t already take a look at this review of the Parasound JC5…
A review on the sound characteristics of the JC5 which is exactly my own…plus
a few others on a different mb…
So my friend, & friends
Best wishes
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@davida Which direction did you finally choose? I too have a P15 with a SR Purple fuse and either Purple, Orange, and Blue throughout my system.
In my experience I have found out that the direction of the fuse is not consistent for best sound. This leads me to believe that either SR’s printing on the fuse is not consistent with its direction of current flow or the individual fuses themselves are unique in someway and that listening in both directions is needed to find its best sound.
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Hey audiophilehi
I think you are quite right…that the fuses labels are not consistent across the production line.
My SR Master is oriented with the “S” of SR into the cap…opposite of waymanchen’s
you can see his pix on post 32
While mine is reversed from waymanchen’s it merits my flipping the orientation again just to
double check…will give it yet another shot…
Forgot to add that waymanchens M1 fuse orientation is exactly as I had mine in my P15.
also the same orientation in my JC5 now.
Hope this helps you some …
Best wishes
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My goodness! All these time when we were talking about “s” end I was refereing to the end of the cap which has a imprinted “s” on the metal piece. I never read it from the side of the tube with “SR” on the wrapping.
I do not know if the wrapper was placed on tube the same way on all fuses. David, I just checked and my fuse direction is reverse from yours; at least from the “SR” view. I do not know if the “s” end of cap on yours is reverse of mine or not.
So, maybe my fuse direction is the same as Waymenchen’s. But this does not change the fact the direction is system dependent.
My M-1 fuse direction is the same as yours in MK2, at least according to the wrapper.
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Okay my friends…the verdict is in:
Waymanchen’s orientation is the correct one…
So what is the delta between the correct way with the R in the cup or the S in the cup…
for me the delta is huge…everything we desire is so much better as waymanchen pointed
out…
What’s amazing is the sound quality was very good with the wrong orientation…
So thanks to audiodhilehi for asking…made me double check and am glad I did!!
Best wishes
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David, I just recently listened to my friend’s new JC1+ with his new Lagacy speakers and was very impressed with those mono blocks. It replaced his former Lamm M2.1 mono’s. It made the Lamm’s sounded dark and veiled. The JC1+ power in the bass literally knocked me back in my seat! And the clarity of sound produced are beyond reproach. He did owned the original JC1’s before, but it was nothing like these new and improved JC1+'s. Parasound really raised the bar with the newer JC amps. Here is a picture of one of his JC1+'s and Lagacy’s.
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Fuse direction.
For me, as I noted previously, when I first tested my P20 fuse, when it was in the wrong way, it sounded very clean but ‘polite’. When I changed it round the dynamics improved dramatically, it was as if I’d turned the volume control up, but I hadn’t.
For my system the ‘S’ on the side of the fuse was away from the fuse cap holder.
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Wow!!! Am I ever pleased that you got to hear those JC1+ monoblocks powering a known
beautiful speaker system…
Now you have an idea of how amazingly beautiful my JC5 sound quality is…Understandably
my JC5 is not the same as a pair JC1+ but the essence of these distilled unto 1 chasis…
My Focal Aria 948s can really perform and sing an Aria…just not on the same plane as your friend’s
new Legacy speakers…wish I could hear his system…
Thanks Clifton!!
Best wishes
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dchang,
How’s the Gustard working for ya? Did the edginess improve? Or you tossed it? 
I have the Gustard fuse in PST for the last few days. Like other fuses, it needs time to break in, and I do not think it is done with break in yet. But I want to make a quick comparison between it and the Purple fuse. it is sounding a bit smoother than the first two days.
Gustard is a very neutral and full sounding fuse, it sounds warmer than Purple and less than M-1. However, the Purple has more details and frequency extension still. It sounds smoother too. It matches very well with the Master fuse in the system. So far, I prefer Purple in PST. I will put back Gustard to see if it will continue to improve. If there are more improvement in details and smoothness of Gustard, I may change my mind later.
Also the Purple has a darker background at this point. So, I assume Gustard needs more break in time. The SQ is a bit closed in in comparison.
Yes, the darker background of the purple compared to the Gustard is also very apparent to me. Thanks for all the info.
I just made another comparison. The Purple sounds considerably cleaner with better details. The Gustard’s break-in progress was rather slow, and I am not sure if it will ever catch up Purple. I will switch back to Purple tomorrow unless Gustard making a drastic improvement in the morning.
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What you describing matched what I heard with the Gustard, it does wow me at first, then upon further listening, I’m then not too sure nor have the patience to find out.
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Hey Donald have you reversed the orientation of your SR Master yet?
When you do please share your findings…(as if I had to ask)
Thanks