Quote Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Emaidel I appreciate your reviews of products and your knowledge from being in the industry. I appreciate the time you spend listening to your equipment and sharing your insights in a well written way. Please keep it up.
Thanks very much, JM. Yesterday I spent some time listening to my system and marveled at how much better it seems to keep sounding. I played two CD's: the "Tuba Mirum" portion of Berlioz' Requiem on Telarc, conducted by Robert Spano, and a hard-to-find recording of "Too Hot to Handel," which is a delightful and fun gospel version of Handel's Messiah, composed and conducted by Marin Alsop.

The entrance of the four brass choirs in the Berlioz piece, as well as the thundering multiple sets of typmpani all but blew my mind. I've heard this piece dozens of times, but never sounding quite this good. The Alsop piece used to sound brittle, shrill and downright "tinny." Now, it sounds just fine, and actually better than one of the live performances of it that I attended (I had really lousy seats).

Why does all of this sound so much better than it has before? Well, I suspect two reaons: the Marantz SA-8001 has probably sufficiently burned in, and there's absolutely not doubt whatsoever in my mind that the Hi-Fi Tuning fuses have made a huge difference in the performance of the Dahlquist DQ-10's. That was certainly $160 very well spent!

If those fuses have made that much difference in my system, I'm sure they'll do the same for many other AR members whose speakers are fused.