Pink Fuse
Because it’s what’s inside that counts.
At Synergistic Research, we routinely make discoveries as we seek to improve the performance of SR products. And when it’s time to develop something completely new, like the new Voodoo Network Streamer / Server, we engineer entirely new technologies capable of elevating each new SR product to an apex market position when compared to the market’s best products; one listen to the Voodoo Network Server confirms it is by far the world’s highest performance network streamer server. And this leads us to the new Pink Fuse. Traditionally, we launch a new state-of-the-art fuse every 24 months, as it typically takes two years to accumulate enough new technology to surpass an outgoing fuse significantly. But as 2023 was coming to an end, we had already rolled all new accumulated technologies into the new Master Fuse launched in February 2023, engineered and voiced to supercharge an otherwise Purple fuse loom.
For this reason, we had nothing in reserve capable of warranting a replacement for the Purple fuse. So, it remained in our lineup as your main application fuse to be combined with a few Master Fuses in a state-of-the-art fuse loom until we could develop something fundamentally better; fast forward to after the Master Fuse launch, where we have learned a great deal during the development of the new Voodoo server, including an entirely new high voltage conditioning process perfect for a new generation fuse that would maintain the Purple Fuse’s musical warmth but with added resolution and dynamics, combined with enhanced musicality without sounding artificially warm or colored, with, or without, Master Fuses also in the mix. Fortunately, we were also in the final stages of development for a new flagship product, slated to launch later this year, so it is still top secret, with a new UEF compound that proved perfect for the new Pink Fuse, giving it a lower noise floor when directly compared to the outgoing Purple fuse. And so, the new Pink Fuse is born albeit six months late, the child of Voodoo’s high voltage conditioning process, and a new UEF compound first developed for a yet-to-be-announced flagship product that will be, by far, the most expensive product in Synergistic Research’s 32-year history when it lands later this year.
Global MSRP $249.95 all sizes
Note: If you are switching from an Orange fuse or Purple fuse to a Pink Fuse, start by inserting the Pink fuse in the same direction as the Orange/Purple fuse being replaced. If the Pink fuse is not an immediate improvement, flip the Pink fuse in the alternate direction.
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 Black or Blue Fuses 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. At Synergistic Research we’ve isolated key factors that affect how electricity propagates by changing the behavior of electrons through Inductive Quantum Coupling methods we collectively call UEF Tech. In fact, UEF Tech is so powerful even an electrical chain several miles long is fundimentally improved with nothing more than a single fuse engineered with our patented UEF Technology.
We’re so sure you’ll love what SR Orange and Blue Fuses do for your system, we sell them with a no questions asked, 30-day money back guarantee so you can audition SR Orange and Blue Fuses in your system risk-free. Then if you’re not 100% satisfied with your system’s performance on SR Orange and Blue fuses, return the fuses to your dealer in like new condition for a full refund.
Pink Fuse
Available Values:
5mm x 20mm Slo-blow
5mm x 20mm Fast-blow
100mA
160mA
200mA
250mA
315mA
500mA
630mA
800mA
1A
1.25A
1.6A
2A
2.5A
3.15A
4A
5A
6.3A
8A
10A
12.5A
16A
50ma
160mA
200mA
250mA
500mA
800mA
1A
1.6A
2A
2.5A
3.15A
4A
5A
6.3A
8A
10A
12.5A
16A
6.3mm x 32mm Slo-blow
6.3mm x 32mm Fast-blow
250mA
500mA
800mA
1A
1.6A
2A
2.5A
3.15A
4A
5A
6.3A
8A
10A
12.5A
15A
16A
20A
250mA
500mA
800mA
1A
1.6A
13A UK Main
2A
2.5A
3.15A
4A
5A
6.3A
8A
10A
12.5A
15A
16A
20A
Frequently asked questions.
Q: Are fuses directional?
A: Yes, fuses are directional. Electricity should flow from the left to the right when you view the fuse. If you do not know the direction of flow you should listen to the fuse inserted in both directions. One direction will sound more detailed. This is the correct way.
Q: Do fuses have a burn in period?
A: Yes, most products have a settling in period. The first 200-300 hours of use are the most crucial.
Q: Where should I use my Master fuse(s)?
A: To get the most out of our Master Fuses, we suggest starting with one or two fuses in most systems, and possibly more for highly resolving systems. There is no “wrong” component to start with; however, we typically recommend starting “upstream,” at the beginning of your signal source (Music Streamer, CD Player, Turntable, Reel to Reel, etc.). From there, we suggest moving on to your digital-to-analog converter or phonostage (if you use one), followed by your preamplifier and then your power amplifier. If you have multiple sources, upgrading the fuse in your preamplifier first can improve the performance of all of your sources.”
Review
“The sonic changes to Synergistic Research Purple UEF fuses were immediately noticeable in several ways, with other benefits revealed after the initial flurry of changes. The first change is an increase in smoothness and refinement in the midrange and especially in the high frequencies. The higher frequencies are less congested and restricted too, which makes the top treble appear to have a greater extension. All of which is heard most readily with solo female voice or piano, but unless your record collection is made up of white noise, catfights and people running their fingernails down chalkboards, you’ll hear it regardless.
After that initial impressive change comes the other benefits in short order. Perhaps predictably (at least for those who’ve heard fuse-free Schuko plugs in their system), there’s a distinct sense of music rising out of stillness and calm; the absence of a subtle background hash that too often gives the music an electronic sheen. However, you also notice that the imaging has improved, mostly in terms of image stability but also in soundstage size and precision. Dynamic range is improved too, again perhaps a part of that removal of background hash. In systems that are already dynamically powerful sounding, the worry could be that it would send the sound over the top and into exuberance; in fact, the sound just seems to expand a little, a little like you just got access to a better master of the music.
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-Alan Sircom - HiFi + - February 2022
Enjoy the Music
2019 Great Audiophile Gift
“After returning home from the Toronto Audio Fest 2019, I dropped my familiar compilation CD into the tray and listened to the Orange fuses that had been burning in for four days. My rig, which previously had Synergistic Research Blue fuses and is priced in the tens of thousand dollars, was sounding like rigs I heard at the show that cost in the low hundreds of thousands. That’s all the math you need to know. Start with your source if you’re skeptical, and work your way through to the amps. The plans to upgrade my speakers are on hold, indefinitely.” Ricker Becker
Enjoy the Music
2020 Great Audiophile Gift
The ORANGE Fuse is Synergistic Research’s latest and greatest version of their extremely popular UEF Blue Fuse. In fact the Blue fuse earned Enjoy the Music.com’s 2018 Great Audiophile Gift recommendation. If you are one of the thousands of SR Fuse users, than you already know what an improvement the tiny devices add to your electronic’s performance.
Enjoy the Music
2021 Great Audiophile Gift
And with the lower noise floor comes more inner detail, macro, and microdyamics. The soundstage expanded in the sense that voices and instruments farther away became more intelligible. There was a tremendous improvement of clarity within the soundstage. Instruments and singers up front did not mask what was going on behind them. The venue of live recordings became a lot more real — both room tone and audience applause.
