So done with audiophile fuses


The journey started with a medium priced ($50) fuse in my power supply.  A failed rectifier tube blew that one out.  Not a fuse problem.  Next up was a blue fuse in my pre amp.  It blew and was not caused by a pre amp problem.  Apparently they sometimes are more sensitive and it was replaced by an orange fuse two values higher.  Things were going along fine.  I replaced the pre amp with a newer version of the pre amp and it has the same fuse value.  Five months latter (today) I turn on the pre amp and nothing.  it's a five month old pre amp so I suspected that it was the fuse.  Sure enough, I replaced it with a ceramic Littelfuse of the lower correct value it works fine.  No more wasting my money on unstable fuses for me.     
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For someone called "nonoise", you actually make quite a lot of it :) Ever considered changing your user id ?
You really need to stop obsessing over me: I'm not that into you.

All the best,
Nonoise




So now it's deleted.
Did I forget to mention thin skinned as well as the other fine qualities?
In who's opinion? 
Someone you look up to? I can't say as I've never heard it.


Wyred4Sound had been using a circuit breaker on one of their integrated amps for some time now. A long time ago, when I considered getting one from them, I asked about a fuse upgrade and was told they'd be happy to do so for that last 5% improvement in sound. That was many years ago.

All the best,
Nonoise
I was waiting to see how much more ridiculous the conversation would get :-) It exceeded my expectations by a huge margin.....
You're completing your metamorphosis of sorts, to that of an insufferable troll. My, how the lowly have fallen.
Also these fusers claim there's a difference in inserted direction with an ac mains fuse.
And you can always count on old faithful to chime in. Same old tired shtick. You're gonna be a big hit with the nurses when your dementia kicks in.

All the best,
Nonoise



LOL... Still continuing with this crap ?
That seems to be your raison d'être for posting as of late.

I wouldn't do that if I were you. Some here have done that but it's not advisable.

All the best,
Nonoise
You two kids just don’t seem to get it and rely now on insults and other asinine statements just to get by with now that you’ve lost all credibility.

I don’t know about you, edgewoundtootightly, but georgie knows full well that I’ve stated stated and linked sites to high rupturing fuses that use strictly copper, silver and other highly conductive metals. They’ve been around for ages and are used in professional equipment like you’d see in hospitals. labs, military gear, aviation and space applications. They’re not expensive at all and perform at tighter tolerances than the junk georgie blows through on a constant basis.

I’ve also put it out there that some audio enthusiasts might have simply caught onto these types of fuses and began marketing them for themselves or had them made for them and/or adapted them for their own purposes, with HiFi Tuning and Mundorf teaming together to make their own line. It’s not that hard to get your head around, or is it?

That, and it’s pathetic that georgie has to cite various "laws" to support his over the top responses. Didn’t work before and it’s not working now.

All the best,
Nonoise
That, of course, is the perplexing part.  While I don't Know and won’t say that fuses have no effect whatsoever on the sound of a system, I still can’t buy that the magnitude of the effect (or improvement, or whatever) would be great enough to make me want to spend big money on a fuse.
The great part of it is that you needn't spend anywhere near the cost of a SR fuse or something even more dear in price. There are still some HiFi Tuning Silver Star fuses to be had (in dwindling numbers) for a fraction of what they initially went for. Maybe one of a value you need is still available.

I've personally tried about 4 different brands and they all had a distinct sound characteristic and didn't cost that much to experiment with. I'm of the opinion that a fuse made up of metals that are on par with what you'd use in a cable are the way to go and to stop using the cheap, low cost fuses made out of a witches brew of poorly conductive metals.

All the best,
Nonoise


Does saying they weren't necessarily provide an escape of sorts from the fact that some of them most likely were? Would you have anyone other than an engineer swapping parts to get to a particular sound? They were voicing the unit when the fuse broke. I thought that engineers did that sort of work.

That, and they heard enough of a difference that they wanted to know what the repair guys did to the unit to make it sound so different compared to what they were working on. A fuse, according to the manual, is just there as a safety device and shouldn't have any effect on the sound. And yet it did.

All the best,
Nonoise
It is there FOR A REASON. And that reason is NOT for improving the sound. It will NEVER EVER make a difference to the sound. Do not fall for all the crap you hear on this forum.
Tell that to the engineers over at Yamaha who found out otherwise.

Wow. This thread may be setting a precedent of sorts with mostly anti fuse trollers all dog piling and back slapping. Here's hoping that they find contentment in this thread and not venture out into the real world lest their sensibilities be shattered.

All the best,
Nonoise
Too many trying to be an internet influencer and mimicking memes in their best troll attempts. Griping about fuses is a very old and tired meme and not at all in keeping up with the times.

Same goes for cables, cable risers, etc. Just what is it? Was everyone born yesterday? This is like congress voting to repeal something over 60 times, knowing it won't work, but letting all the newcomers get a chance to put their wrong foot forward so they can say they did something and be part of the pack.

All the best,
Nonoise