Check this out.

To consider the Earth round, well it’s just a little bit two dimensional for me.
Oddly spherical, that’s more my speed.

@oldhvymec - mate, you’re funnier than a hat full of tits and bums.
Funnier than my bird and vagrant jokes, that’s for sure.

If the filament wire separates in the center, doesn’t the copper powder still conduct?

Possibly, but were it to still carry sufficient current, I would expect it to continue to melt and fail over the quartz anyway?! Any electrical engineers in this forum?

@yuviarora - well you sure as hades have my attention.
Seems we have another clever tinkerer among us. +1

The timbre/tonality of the fuse is dependent on the outside cap more than anything else, and there is room to play on that front.

While I was up at MC audiophile weekend in Washington he applied some contact enhancer on the pins of the valves for a valve amp, I forget the brand.
@danager - do you recall the brand of valve amp the other guy brought over?

Anyway, with the comment yuviarora made about the material in the caps on the ends, and many Agon members having purchased contact enhancers like NPS-1260 Contact Enhancer, has anyone in the forum tried it on fuses?

@jpwarren58 - a Trekkie huh?
Yeah, crazy talk no?

Except when you read from enough credible people that it starts to make you seriously question the notion.
Even I must admit, I understand the skepticism of those who have been in the spiked feet camp for decades, when they first read about isolating speakers on springs. Seems like nonsense too. Until you actually try it.

In primary school a science teacher showed the class mercury, I wanted to pick it up, but was told it was dangerous. I didn’t pick it up, but seriously had my doubts (even though I trusted my teacher), it looks like fun to play with.

All mains power entering the power supply, does so through the fuse, which is a protective device (or is required by law it to protect the building the device is wired to?), the current will pass through the wire into the connector, the fuse, the second connector and the wire into the bridge rectifier and smoothing capacitors etc. before being used as DC.

How can so many seemingly educated and well written audiophiles claim real world experience in the performance of such a small thing as a fuse? Even long time, industry leader’s electrical engineers have been shown to acknowledge that even the humble fuse can alter the final sound of a stereo system.

Or is it the concept of a fluid contact enhancer, that you’re objecting to?
Either way, many many Agon members have written in here about them, many with a great deal of knowledge and credibility, and so I’m not one to simply dismiss it so easily.

People are claiming it actually enhances the sound.
More than once I've come across things in here that seemed strange, perhaps nonsensical and they are used with great success.
For example, a little black box with inductors, transformers and capacitors has entirely transformed my system by lowering the noise floor.
Two big wooden sideways bookshelf looking furniture have cleaned up lower frequencies, widened the sweet spot sitting position and reduced flutter echo.

I heard cable lifters in a friend's system pulled out and replaced, I purchased two packets of them for mine.

Keep your mind open, wallet closed, and weigh it all up, go listen if you can and move forward from there. If you're never challenged or surprised in here, I know I often am.

I have some Mad Scientist Audio Graphene contact enhancer.

Hey, I have Mad Scientist Heretical Digital Cable 1 meter KLE Absolute Harmony silver RCA. I have their graphene pucks on XLR connectors too.

My former employer and friend, is good friends with Keith Eichmann, and helped with development of some of his earlier products. If anyone is into DIY, his connectors are seriously world class.


@yuviarora thanks for the heads up, I didn't know they had the contact enhancer. Hmmmm I bought some nano graphene powder from Israel - I feel an experiment urge coming on.