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Anyone used these audio ceramic slow blow fuses from Littlefuse?

While perusing the fuse offerings at Mouser Electronics I noticed these audio/medical fuses priced at around $9.00 US. As someone who has been reluctant to spend the price for the highest priced audiophile fuses, these more reasonably priced offerings caught my eye. Just curious if anyone has had occasion to try them and form an opinion. I must say the attention to quality control, ratings specifications, and published testing results make these look more appealing to me than the rather vague specs of many "audiophile" fuses. 

https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/240/Littelfuse_Fuse_285_Datasheet.pdf-1317236.pdf
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Isoclean fuses from Japan, from the first audiophile fuse maker, are UL listed. So are Furutech audiophile fuses from Japan.

It should be mentioned HiFi Tuning Fuses have a type quantum treatment in addition to gold infused high purity silver elements. I’m pretty sure Littelfuses do not, but then they’re only a dollar or free, or whatever.

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Wow! Free samples for a dollar fuse. Gosh, that’s mighty decent of them. By the way the name is Littelfuse.
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Well, maybe so but on the other hand, never up, never in. Of course we could all find some super cheap audio thing - a cable, a CD player, a turntable, speakers, whatever. There’s a market for every purse and taste. It all depends on what you’re trying to achieve and how much you got in your purse. For those who are a little more competitive or ambitious then most likely a cheap stock fuse will prove rather unsatisfactory in the long run. Think ahead. 
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Littelfuse. Preferred by most Amish audiophiles. 
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They’re for the Littel people. 
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In reality, Littelfuse fuses blow prematurely just as much as fancy audiophile fuses. Nice try, anyway. No industry is more ritical than audio. Didn’t you know that? I assume you don’t know any audiophiles. 
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“Fuses are simple things.”

They look simple, anyway. 🤗 What do audiophiles know that Littelfuse doesn’t? 
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Nothing wrong per se with Littelfuses. They do their job fine. But in terms of sound quality they don’t sound as good as premium audiophile fuses. It’s the age old audiophile conundrum, whether it’s worth the much higher cost to get a premium fuse.
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