How’s Master fuse doing lately? You have it in the system close to 200 hours. Do you think it has finished burn in yet? Looks like it doesn’t have the up and down period like Purple did.
I see neither of our two Master owners have mentioned anything about trying a second Master fuse?
I may be the first on the forum to try this … when I receive my two.
I’m still being told middle of March from my dealer but not sure whether this is when he expects to have them or when I should receive them.
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Welcome! Keep us informed, please.
Where are you planning to put the 2 SR-Ms?
Hi Donald
Thanks for asking.
It seems as if the SR Master fuse has pretty much arrived to where it should be.
The ups and downs that the SR Purple fuse are absent with the SR master fuse.
The things that I can now hear that I couldn’t before is amaazing, particularly
the eeeny teeeny faintest nuances…
It is one of those things you gotta hear and experience…well worth the tuition
credit hours…just like college courses…
Best wishes
That’s nice you can share your experience with both the SR Masters…
So as to keep an orderly constant…would you please place onr of your SR Master
fuses in your power plant first…so that that later when adding the 2nd to your source,
we can see the effect of the 2nd SR Master fuse.
No not planning on a 2nd SR Master fuse.
Call The Cable Company they do overseas shipping and may be quicker.
If they do and have them in stock …might be good to cancel at that point with
your dealer…
Best wishes
Thank you luca…no not planning on a second SR Master at
this time…
Best wishes
Thanks for the information. I have some fat credit left with the Cable Co., So, as soon as I am done with the excitement of my new USB cable the next could be a new Master in the house.
But I have a two-week vacation to Asia in early April (it is really a shopping trip), so I am not sure I can afford anything after. 
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Hmmmm shopping trip Asia…eh Donald?
Hmmmm how about some Accuphase gear set for US
voltage…far far cheaper than buying here… 
I’m a teaser…
Best wishes on your trip.
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Unfortunately, when on vacation my boss would not allow me to be within one hundred feet of any store remotely related to audio. Or should I say fortunately?
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It is sanity to remember the Boss is the neck that turns
the head… 
Best wishes
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Sorry David, I was asking to @sheridd2…
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Yes, I was just about to point that out but Luca got there first.
Luca, I’ve already answered your query, see around post 40 / 41?
Davida … don’t think I could hold out doing one fuse at a time.
Besides I need to make sure I’m happy with both fuses before the 30 day warranty expires.
What I might do is burn both of them in then put back my AM-M1 into my P20.
That would allow me a comparison, and well before running both fuses in consecutively.
I’ve an ‘early bird’ offer on the fuses so I’ll stick with my dealer.
Additionally one of them is a UK 13 amp mains fuse, which I would doubt the Cable Co. would stock.
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Got it, sorry!
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Okay so now at the 216 hour mark…
Sound quality just gets better, let me describe what I am hearing:
In Trevor Pinnock’s Vivaldi L’Estro Armonico English Concert…
The live air reflections of instruments in space is even more refined
than at the 160 hour mark better body while maintaining the string’s
vibrancy with rich texrures as each of the English Concerrt’s ensemble
instruments plays off another…while this is happening Trevor Pinnock’s
Clavecin, Clavicembalo while playing to rear of the Ensemble…is quiet yet
distinct with strings chord’s play with body and impact if one could call it such.
The Concert’s ensemble stings carry a surprising amount of weight.
What I am hearing now is far more advanced and refined that any other
time with previous fuses. Keeping my gear the same throughout.
Now comes this amazing work of art:
This album brings with it a libreto relaying the story of how this recording came together.
To fully appreciate this work the libreto is necessary given the many parts played
by Wynton Marsalis.
The recording venue is St. Barnabas Church in North London in February 1987.
In the last track Heinrich Von Biber’s Sonata for 8 Trumpets and Orchestra,
Wynton Plays all 8 parts of the 2 distant groups. Each distant group contains
4 trumpet sections all played by Wynton Marsalis. For the 2 present groups again
Wynton played each part.
A very technological complex process of recording and musicianship took place
to bring all this together.
So how does this sound…each intended section of trumpets present and distance
are superb must get to hear to understand…
Toward the end of track 8 the string bass shows up as delicately plucked
strings (to my ears anyway)…
Not enough could be said of how this sounds!!
How could they capture all this really needs the accompanying libretto.
Best wishes everyone
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This fuse does not need much break in. It sound as good as it can way in the beginning, and continued to impress even now. If anything, it is a little more at ease, but retain all the virtues of openness, resolution, and power to really draw you into the music. I am waiting for others beside David and I, who got this fuse also to see if it gets the same reaction in other systems.
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Listened to a couple of tracks on Roon/Tidal last evening…
Good stuff and on my list for some relaxed, extended listening at a later date.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Hey Scotte1…
Which tracks did you get to hear?
If you are thinking the Wynton Marsalis Baroque Music for Trumpets…
Very seriously get a new sealed copy of this album as the included
libretto is chuck full of amazing information that will be very helpful
to get an idea of the complexity of what was achieved here. New sealed
b/c a used copy may not have the libretto with it or may be in bad shape.
Though recorded in 1987, the sound quality and sound staging defies
all the bad press digital audio of that era has garnered…it is that good!!
Glad you got to hear them …keep us posted please.
Best wishes
Thanks.
I don’t have a ‘Table.
As I noted in my post, I was streaming a Tidal MQA file via Roon (first two tracks).
This one:
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Actually it is a cd…
Thanks for sharing
If only you could acquire the booklet libretto…
Best wishes
It really is amazing…pretty much the same here…
Me too Clifton can’t wait for others to come onboard with their SR Master fuses to share their
story…
Clifton thanks for sharing
Best wishes
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