Ceramic fuses

The harm is they convince others with less financial resources that their route to audio nirvana is through the things less likely to achieve that. The view of the audiophile as a rich old guy with excessive disposable income is often not the case with audiophiles spending what to many would be an excessive percentage of their income chasing the dream.

One metal is hard which means it deforms little which means it can't deform to increase contact area and reduce resistance.


One metal is a bad conductor of electricity.

That metal in both cases is rhodium. Makes nice jewelry, terrible for anything electrical. If someone is claiming the superiority of Rhodium in a connector you can pretty much dismiss their view.

Electrical engineering has no laws, those would be laws of physics but who is keeping track any more

Personally I think ricevs and George both make claim to more knowledge than they possess.

Steel is a very common component lead material. For rectifier diodes copper clad steel with nickel plate is common.  Even if the lead is plated copper (never bare), the contact is almost always steel or nickel due to bonding issues with glass passivated contacts.   Steel is also predominant for through hole small resistors. Copper is never bare and the solder is now pretty much all tin so the signal passes through a lot of copper nickel and tin interfaces.

Oh there are steels that are not magnetic by the way.

I try not to use such terms cal91, but I am sure I have done it before, and given the abuse that one gets here, I am pretty certain I would have thrown that back at someone.

However, what I will bring up is expectation bias, sighted bias, etc. as I know, not just think, know they are real. I have fallen prey to it. I have seen many fall prey to it.

I would also never say that someone should be prevented from buying anything (well unless they owe others money and are not paying it back then I may change my mind). Unlike someone else, I would never insist that all threads of a certain type be closed. It is a very rare instance where censorship is the answer. I must say though, the behavior of some here really does make you question whether they are paid shills. It is a bit bizarre their level of promotion.

 However, if it is okay for people to promote nonsense that will never pass anything related to a controlled listening test, and never has in my experience, then you shouldn’t have a problem with me pointing out that these things never pass controlled non-sighted listening tests.

What are you trying to hide cal91?

I think people new to audio have the right to be exposed to accurate knowledge, do you not? I would rather budding audiophiles learned about things that will actually improve their sound, that makes them happy audiophiles, which makes them spend more on equipment and music, as opposed to chasing tweaks that leave them unfulfilled, even giving up on their audio dream.

cal91212 posts12-27-2020 7:27pmaudio2design...So you are their self-appointed savior from themselves? Don’t they have a right to decide for themselves? I don’t know any of the people on these forums. I have no idea what their financial statuses are. I simply believe that, whether or not the decision is a wise one, they have the right to buy a fuse if they want to. It doesn’t affect me in any way.

Oh this is nothing compared to his obsession with most Class-D ... fueled by erroneous information about Class-D and thermal effects and impedance.

cal37131,092 posts12-29-2020 4:57pmIt's funny that George can get everyone onto a "paid shill" conspiracy theory when he's in all the preamp and dac threads talking about how everyone who likes active preamps is ignorant. Of course he manufactures and sells a passive pre.