Furutech fuse

I should have known that it would sound the way it did. Rhodium is like that. I have power cords with the same sonic signature but to a lesser extent than the fuse. Maybe their gold one would sound better in mine. The rhodium could certainly tip a yellow or warm rig back to a more nuetral colorless color if you will.

Thanks. Everything makes an impact on sound. Mats, spikes, cones, wood of different types, brass, aluminum, cable, tubes, humidity, foam, dirty power, mood ... list is endless! And it's not always good.  

I heard that wax filled fuses sound good. So do fuses with a wrap of masking tape or PTFE. I'm going to try the latter. My guess is the fuse and/or fuse wire is oscillating at the power frequency due to its construction much like a guitar string. Further resonances then dirty the power. Perhaps the expensive fuses are filled with graphene. 

@millercarbon I understand where you are comong from.
"does not justify the price to me". I would rather hard wire the amp than spend $249 on a fuse. It’s just a principle thing for me. 

@elizabeth Indeed. Me too. Years ago, I moved a turntable from a temp location on a concrete floor to a lovingly built oak table. The SQ deteriorated so badly it was horrific.  Yet when I added granite underneath, it was almost back to where it was. I was amazed. I am sure the Synergistic fuses may do as they claim but I do not feel happy about value for money.

@auxinput Noted. I'll burn them in on the other rig and try it again.

@cleeds Jeez, I did not mean it literally. I used a simile to illustrate how I believe the product is overpriced. 

Has anyone tried miniature circuit breakers instead?

@tuberist I've no doubt they make a change or an improvement. I understand they have R&D costs and salaries to pay all those sales people. I'm just not diggin' the price. For a fuse. I paid almost $400 for a pair of new tubes and that was pushing it!

Uber, Miller, I agree with you both. Love at first sight! That’s why it’s being relegated to the other rig. Trust me, the ten hours I gave this were enough. However some things do need burn in. Brand new tubes which sound a little closed in open up, a new cartridge, speakers, a Hemi V8... It’s also one reason why I won’t pay for expensive stuff where I do not feel there is value.
Geoff, I tried both directions. Sounded better in one but...then that could have been the mind hearing the same track twice.

Millercarbon, the problem for me is that I have a background in electronics, and I know not so much the specific explanations, but that there is an explanation. There is always one or one forthcoming. Is it a physical phenomenon or a psycho-acoustic one? Is it something few of us in the forum are qualified to understand? Maybe only a few engineers at Synergistic know? Perhaps they came back from the future with a new compound. We know silver conducts better than gold. We know about surface conductivity and long crystals in copper wire. And we use that knowledge to make better sounding components. In the case of the fuse, they may be simply exploiting the fact that thin wires under tension vibrate and that the junctions in a fuse cause ionic collisions or whatever, and they are merely addressing these factors. And it is wonderful that they are. But, to the best if my knowledge,  they are not forthcoming about the construction or the materials or the mechanism, and that makes me suspicious. 

The ad hominem makes it right? Along with the argumentum ad populum?
All their spiel does is validate my point about the lucrative pricing.