@captaindidactic Your report that bypsass (putting a jumper or slug in) resulted in much better sound is totally consistent with my experience. I don't think audiophile fuses can ever approach the performance of a jumper. Fuses have to blow and to blow they have to have a significant resistance and low melting point. Jumpers don't have to blow. The real answer is replace your fuse with a breaker, thus the SDFB which will outperform any audiophile fuse. Jerry |
@tonywinga Cool, and sadly expensive, that you were able to dissect a couple of tubes. It would be nice if the filament were some highly conductive audiophile wire, but generally it has to be something with a low melting point, like lead and tin. If anyone has an audiophile fuse that is blown and they want to donate it to science, send it to me, I will dissect it and try to test the filament by spectroscopy to see what metal it is. I will also try to measure it, I have an optical micrometer. Jerry |
