Audiophile Fuses: Helpful or "Snake Oil"?

williampowell, First, you will want to make a list. Put every single one of the posers, er I mean posters above on it. As time goes by and you notice every single thing they post is as useless as what they just did here you will understand why. The greatest use to be made of this site is to know who to ignore. With this list you are off to a great start!

I don’t know about fuses in general. There are way too many out there for me to have tried them all. In fact the only ones I have tried are Synergistic Research Blue and Orange.

Blue are impressively more dynamic and detailed, with a bigger, deeper sound stage, improvements across the board more in line with what you would expect from a $500 power cord than a $150 fuse.

Orange are even better, though instead of the big improvement being dynamics and clarity with Orange it is more sophisticated refinement. Just a whole lot more subtle detail comes through, but in a much more natural way. The vast majority of times something gets more detailed it also gets a bit of an edge. Orange is not like that at all.

Both are directional, and it is easy to hear they sound much better one way vs the other. There will be no doubt, you will hear it.

If you listen. Which is the real reason for the jokey blather above. Lotta audiophiles can’t be bothered to simply go and listen.

What is the proper blow rate anyway? Is it related to the number of hookers? Won't snake oil be extra?

williampowell (if still around, this is looking like a drive-by) you might notice no one has offered anything about how a fuse actually could make a difference. I only commented on the sound, not any reason for the sound.

The old school simple EE approach is wire is wire, electricity flows like water through a pipe, doesn't matter if its copper, PVC or ABS it's just a pipe. Resistance to flow is all that matters. In the pipe it's pressure, in the wire it's volts and ohms. They think they got it all nailed down.
But in reality it's not like that at all. In reality there is no flow, but rather a charge that propagates by fields. It's like when they do "the wave" in a stadium. The wave moves all the way around but the people doing the wave hardly move at all.  

Music is electric fields doing the wave, only alternating back and forth very fast and all different amounts. The field is at least as important as the pipe or wire. 

That is why for example there is a little blob of material on every Blue and Orange fuse.

You missed it, I will guarantee everyone missed it, but not me, being sharper than all of you put together I didn't miss it and so here it is:

That goo is a keeper too..

Scroll up and see I am not making this up. Those of us who know, we know. The rest of you, happy to share but you only learn when you're willing to learn. And an awful lot of you seem to be not very interested in learning.