I also broke open a Beeswax Ultimate premier that I replaced with a SR Purple with.
The caps are not magnetic like I thought before, but the magnetic black strip that run from cap to cap is probably to filter EMI. There is also a thin filament running cap to cap. It is stuffed with a waxy powdery substance that may be a beeswax mixture. The case is made of glass. Here are some pictures.
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Thank you for these good pictures showing the contents
of both the SR Orange fuse and the Beeswax Ultimate Premier,
Often wondered what the innards of the Beeswax fuse were
and what they looked likeâŚ
While I concur fuses make a significant improvement in my
system, it is hard to fathom how the Beeswax would improve
sound quality in our gearâŚyet it doesâŚ
HiFi Tuning with their gold overlay on silver (Supreme 3s) is
a wonderful upgrade, the SR graphene fuses even more so.
The materials used in these are known for better conductivityâŚ
But Beeswax,hmmmm yet stillâŚthey are an upgrade though
far pricier than the Supreme3s or SR Purple fusesâŚ
Thanks Clifton for your pictures, thanks for taking an expensive
good working fuse and breaking it apart to show us the internals.
Best wishes
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I know an audio designer who uses Beeswax in his cabling as a vibration damper. I believe that is possibly why Audio Magic uses it as well.
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Purple fuses are the best Iâve heard. I just took advantage of the April â3 for 2â sale and will have Purple in all the devices I have with external fuses.
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Wish all gear had external fusesâŚboth my preamps have
internal fusesâŚboth are pia to open up and change fuses.
One of them has only 1 fuse the other has 2 fuses with opposite
directionsâŚmaking it a bit of an excercise to figure which wayâŚ
Did I say bunches of screwsâŚno âŚwell then yes bunches of
screwsâŚ
Where do manufacturers get the idea of putting fuses inside the
boxâŚSomeone needs to go show them⌠
Best wishes
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Agree with this.
Just fitted a purple in my DS Dac from an SR Orange and its a different league all together.
Like yourself,
Replacing all fuses in my system with Purples.
I see it as an essential part of the AC system, and maximising the quality of that.
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So thatâs what dried up snake oil looks like! 
I understand it also causes Covid! 
Just kidding of course.
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It just has to be reconstitued just add 'erl
Best wishes
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Itâs too late, I breath in a lot of the powder already. I hope I donât get sick. Smells weird.
I should be receiving my SR UEF Ethernet Switch by next week. It suppose to have a Purple fuse already installed so no need to change it.
Hereâs a video on the award it achieved.
Iâve switched from SR orange to SR purple to QSA Violet and QSA Red. This week I finally found out what is going on with the fuses. The fuses seem to do nothing with the powersupply and also nothing directly with the devices that are fed, still the effect on the sound is extreme!!! Like the difference of complete standard cabling on a system in comparison with the best cabling money can buy and on top of this many other upgrades⌠yes that is in my opinion the impact of one QSA Red fuse. But again it does nothing with the devices directly. They actually work just like the quantum stickers and Gabriel chips and probably just like Furutech NCF powerplugs, powerblocks and powersockets . A quantum sticker is activated by fields around the system and seems to do something with the environment, which has impact on the electronics
The quantum material on the fuses also need some activation and that is done by the field around the fuse caused by the current or the alternating voltage. The more noise through the fuse the better the activation seems to be (sparkling cleaning everywhere), but when the field stabilizes (after the break in period) the quantum material does itâs job like cleaning the same spot over and over again. I hear that the sound become super thight and looses some naturalness on voices. This doesnât happen when a new cable, powersupply or other device is installed. No while breaking in something the sound is so much better. But now the fun part. I have a powersupply with a QSA red fuse and this powersupply has nothing to feed. Itâs just standing there doing nothing, only feeding the standby led. This seems more then enough cleaning service I need. Still the effect is really big. Switching off the powersupply is out of the question. Also I found a nice spot for the powersupply 1.5meters from the system for a better result.
For years I was in trouble with fuses and it always seemed iâm was the only one. Well when I switch on the Wifi in our house I hear the music brightens up, like the fuse in the powersupply is getting to work. It seems the effect of the fuses is to strong for invironments free of Wifi and bluetooth. The field in our house is below 0.1V/m in a range of 200Mhz to 8Ghz. Normally these fields are above 0.3 to 1V/m which goes square root is hundreds of times higher than at our home.
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I canât get rid of the feeling that itâs a normal fuse with a 3 M absorber sheet.
A Tuning ring!
It wasnât too long ago that someone mentioned taping an AA battery to a cable makes a difference. I never tried that.
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I tried the battery rings on a Stealth V10, and a CC Mag. Opus 2 power cords and they did nothing!
On the other hand, battery pack works great on AQ Dragon. It must came with better batteries.
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With the Audioquest DBS, the negative battery terminal is connected to the shield and the ground wire. The positive pole of the battery with an insulated additional conductor in the cable. In addition, a small capacitor is connected between plus and minus.
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Haha, you should loose that feeling, but itâs very understandable! The effect of a Red fuse is night and day, or at least cloudy and sunshine. Because they brought trouble in my system⌠I have tried to loose them several times, but even with the trouble it seems I canât live without them anymore
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The fuse is on the powercable of my dac streamer now for 10 hours⌠UNREAL!!!
What a strange stuff that quantum material. It seems the impact must fit your systems demands, because in my case the sound transition kept on for 72 hours. I donât like the end result. I mean the impact is unbelievable, but with high end audio it is always a matter of combining, selecting and tuning to get the best result. With Synergistic and Quantum fuses I always got in trouble over and over again. Is it because we donât use Wifi and Bluetooth in our home? I mean is there a need for noise for the fuses to cancel.
The funny part is that I think we must forget it is a fuse. This just seems like a smart trick from the manufacturers. People understand something physical like a fuse, because a fuse can have an impact, but people canât understand the impact of some sort of quantum stuff. A fuse trick seems BullsâŚt to me. When I just lay the fuse behind my system the effect is there, really there even more than with a quantum sticker. After I lay the fuse close to a field of energy the transition of the sound begins and it always seems to take 24 to 72 hours. These are just advanced quantum stickers. Advanced because the impact is really better.
I have auditioned these fuses for at least 7 months and literally every day I had to move my loudspeakers, sometimes a few millimeters up to a few centimeters. There must be something that impacts the quantum material which influences the sound of my system. Without the fuses I donât have to move my loudspeakers around. So I have a love and hate relationship with these fuses, the fuses really can easily dubbel the sound quality, but I decided Iâm better off without them, at least until I know where the impact comes from.
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Do you still have the PSU-10? Did you notice or remember if the stock fuses were different than the one reference on manual?
My original BHK pre fuse has blown last week and I will replace it for a SR Pink and Iâm thinking about replacing the original ones inside my PSU-10 for 2 Purple. Do you recommend this move?
Thank you.
I contacted Gold Note when I was swapping out the fuse. Itâs a 500mA T 5x20mm SB (T) fuse.