NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

Fuses make a difference, everything matters and makes a difference. The audiophile fuses are there to do the least damage, well less damage than a cheap standard fuse anyway.


It is amazing though that the improvements are reported to be so so ... huge. I can hear the change in direction of a standard fuse in my system and hear the effect of replacing said fuse with a better one so decided to listen to what must then be the best 'fuse' possible: no fuse. The amp I tried this experiment in now runs permanently fuseless. The zero fuse betters all others I have tried but the difference between standard and no fuse is not as great as some here make out!


Take oregonpapa and his reporting of everything PPT. Whenever he added paste to a connection he reported a lower noise floor and then describes the sound of this particular pasting and then with the next paste of whatever hears another amazing lowering of the noise floor and on and on until it reaches the point of defying credulity. It is from his persuasive enthusing that I bought some PPT products. First thing I did was place 2 mats inside my breaker panel. Over a few days the sound became progressively worse, by which I mean the sound hardened up and took on a screechy brash upper register. Things did not improve when I started treating contacts with the paste.


The number of times he reported 'a lowering of the noise floor' seems impossible to me. The noise must be so low now that there is nothing anymore.
The moral of this story is to perhaps treat with a little caution this gentleman's gushing effusive praise.

@darkfrank, let me suggest you try, only temporarily, bypassing the fuse of concern with a solid copper rod or a jumper wire soldered across the fuse. This will now be your reference, that is to say it can't be improved upon for purity. Once your ear/brain has heard this then try and find the fuse that gets closest to your 'reference'

This is what I did and selected a SR Blue but it was not long before I bypassed the fuse, not with a jumper wire across the fuse but by soldering a wire across the fuse terminals.

Let me be clear, I am not recommending this other than as an experiment.

@Frank, I use neither Bybee nor magnets. When I received my paste it was dry and hard and the little make up brush had been used before by somebody because the bristles were stiff. The instructions that came with the kit claimed the paste had a shelf life of 6 months. I emailed Tim about this, he replied that it has a shelf life of 5 years. When I queried the discrepancy he again replied that there was a mix-up with the instructions. He said to just soak the brush in some water until soft.

I then asked him if I was to believe that the printers took it upon themselves to say 6 months. That won't happen and if it did was there no proof reading before publication?

I bought the bundle when first advertised because I thought it might be promotional only for a limited time. I was still building/renovating the listening room and opened the TC pack about a year after receiving it. I was not happy to then find the paste was out of date especially when nowhere on their site was it mentioned that there was a shelf life.

I was now dealing with Krissy who to compensate sent me 4 mats free.

Frank, I would like to take you up on that visit but it's one hell of a long drive from Ireland :-) 


I have used the paste and at one stage had 8 mats in various places, sometimes 2 or 3 together under my Oppo, sometimes one under each component. I wanted what for me was a rather large outlay for something essentially arcane and nebulous to bring me great pleasure but what it effectively did, notwithstanding the more dynamic bass and great detail this provided, is to render my collection of digital files I listen to, to about 20%!  Prior to the PPT products I was listening to about 60% and enjoying the experience.

I have 3 mats in use now, 1 under my Wadia DAC, 1 under my DIY power amp and 1 under the computer. The mats have been moved around, completely removed and I still can't get rid of the brash unlistenable upper midrange.

By process of elimination I have to asume its the TC responsible or out of date TC