Extreme Snake Oil

[Gary_G]

Gotta make yer own!

Are those audio grade solar panels?

 

[mhardy6647]

Are those audio grade solar panels?

single ended -- Class A, baby!

 

[Gary_G]

SET Solar

 

[mhardy6647]

SET Solar

Direct-heated photons!

 

[JSmith]

How fuses alter the sound of your system.

For over one hundred years people believed electrons flowed like water through a pipe and that once ‘contaminated’ by miles of wire, there was little or nothing that could be done to ‘clean’ the electricity feeding your components. Consider this: the electricity feeding your system’s components first propagates through a single fuse. This is why significant gains in sound quality are possible when you insert an SR Purple or Master Fuse into each of your components.

Today physicists understand electrons don’t flow at all but rather propagate in a wave of energy that moves along a conductor with a multitude of factors that alters this wave at the quantum level. To understand how electricity travels without electrons ever leaving their respective atoms it is helpful to consider the spectator ‘wave’ at a football match. Even though you can clearly see a wave pattern moving from spectator to spectator as fans raise and then lower their hands (without hands jumping from one person to the next), so too does electricity ‘move’ without electrons ever leaving their atoms. Synergistic Research isolated key factors that affect how electricity propagates by changing the behavior of electrons through Inductive Quantum Coupling methods SR collectively calls UEF Tech. In fact, UEF Tech is so powerful even an electrical chain several miles long is fundamentally improved with nothing more than a single fuse engineered with SR's patented UEF Technology.

Synergistic Research MASTER Quantum Fuses

The new Purple Fuse surpasses Synergistic Research's Orange Fuse with technology initially developed for the state-of-the-art SRX Series cables. In fact, before two last-minute breakthrough SRX technologies, SR could not better the Orange Fuse with its impossible combination of detail and rich...

highend-electronics.com

... even comes with a special certificate, just to make you feel better about handing over the $916;

JSmith

 

[respice finem]

But, the sun is not that stable either

 

[solderdude]

That's why there are home batteries for solar panels.

 

[respice finem]

That's why there are home batteries for solar panels.

But are these audiophile?

 

[solderdude]

They are .... batteries are the best power source, at least that's what I am told... of course the circuit breakers in it must be audio grade ... as does the internal wiring.
I guess uncle Paul will probably sell them.

 

[caught gesture]

But, the sun is not that stable either

We are fortunate that our solar activity is relatively subdued when compared to that of other sun-like stars. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-025-02521-0

 

[wwenze]

What's next, audiophile IEC sockets, crimp connectors and safety caps? Chassis screws? Busbars at the substation? The sand filling in underground transmission lines?

I know solder has already been done.

Audiophile air. For that wireless goodness.

But are these audiophile?

You need energy generated by an audiophile sun else you won't hear a difference even with audiophile solar panel

 

[SSS]

Has the subject of the video already been ridiculed? Or does it deserve to be evaluated?

Hahaaabsurd.

Well, not all what Paul says is wrong. The resistance of a fuse can influence the current drawn. When an amplifier is susceptible to this and responds with sound quality change then the amlifier is a crap design. A proper amp shoult be created with taking the fuse resistance in account.

 

[Maurizio_Maggi]

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Well, not all what Paul says is wrong. The resistance of a fuse can influence the current drawn. When an amplifier is susceptible to this and responds with sound quality change then the amlifier is a crap design. A proper amp shoult be created with taking the fuse resistance in account.

So... a PS Audio product that reacts to a single fuse, where everyone reacts with a loud “WOOOHHHAA” (1:50) after replacing the fuse... seems like a design problem?

 

[wwenze]

Well, not all what Paul says is wrong. The resistance of a fuse can influence the current drawn. When an amplifier is susceptible to this and responds with sound quality change then the amlifier is a crap design. A proper amp shoult be created with taking the fuse resistance in account.

The temperature of your room can influence the current drawn. What makes the fuse more important?

 

[egellings]

Synergistic Research MASTER Quantum Fuses

The new Purple Fuse surpasses Synergistic Research's Orange Fuse with technology initially developed for the state-of-the-art SRX Series cables. In fact, before two last-minute breakthrough SRX technologies, SR could not better the Orange Fuse with its impossible combination of detail and rich...

highend-electronics.com

... even comes with a special certificate, just to make you feel better about handing over the $916;

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JSmith

You have to be ver-r-ry careful to never ask that fuse to do its job.

 

[Bwaslo]

You have to be ver-r-ry careful to never ask that fuse to do its job.

Made of the finest silver.

 

[Speedskater]

Well, not all what Paul says is wrong. The resistance of a fuse can influence the current drawn. When an amplifier is susceptible to this and responds with sound quality change then the amlifier is a crap design. A proper amp shoult be created with taking the fuse resistance in account.

The fuse is a very small part of the series circuit that starts at the big power company transformer down the street. If the amp's sound quality is susceptible to different fuse resistances, think about the much larger resistance differences in other circuits in your home and what about homes in other neighborhoods?

 

[rdenney]

Also: Zero Crossing Distortion? In a speaker cable?

Sigh. They are directional cables, of course.

Rick "and the electrons have to jump across the insulator, silly" Denney

 

[SSS]

The temperature of your room can influence the current drawn. What makes the fuse more important?

Nothing. It is just one item in the chain of other items where the mains current flows. Of course the influence of the fuse is due its resistance electrically real. But how much is it? Very very low. For interest I measured some european style fuses. Here the results:

1.25 A T 0.07 Ohm
0.4 A T 0.88 Ohm
4 A M 0.025 Ohm
2 A M 0.05 Ohm

T means timelag, M means middle timelag in comparison to F fast acting. The value for the 4 A M fuse is low (used in my Yamaha M-85 amp) and I doubt that this has an influence on the amp performance. But there may be 4 A fuses with higher resistance depending on the thermal inertia.

 

[boxerfan88]

MQA topped the list

6 'Revolutionary' Audiophile Products That Turned Out to Be Scams

Talk is cheap, but these scams aren't.

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