Something For The Fuse Guys ...

I think they are shipping 10/18. My QSA Violet and Yellow just delivered today.

So many fuse threads! I can't keep em all straight! 
Sad to say my QSA are still back-ordered. Between the price and the time (and the new Purple) my patience has run out. I just canceled and will be ordering Synergistic. Would've been nice to compare but for the price diff hard to believe they wouldn't have been going back. Even if Violet turned out better than Purple, hard to believe so much better to be worth the extra.

Frank, you were involved in evaluation process of the prototype SR Orange. This reduces credibility of your statements but thanks for admitting your participation.
I’d like to hear about the Orange from other persons, unbiased, less euphoric..

Translation: Frank your evaluation is good enough for Ted Denney, but not for me. I'm jealous. Why doesn't Ted care what I think? Why do people listen to you and not me? I’d like to hear from people who say its crap.

Only problem, Frank actually tried them. You have not. Everyone who’s actually tried them knows they are really, really good. So sorry. Guess you’ll just have to content yourself with raining on the parade. That's a translation. Didn't actually mean raining.

Here’s a question I ask from time to time as it never has been answered, yet I persevere: Are any audio components manufactured with attention paid to alleged proper "direction" of the wiring and circuit board traces?

Maybe. Who knows? Who cares? Besides you, I mean. Which by the way you do not. Any more than anyone else does. What we care about is the final result. Which is what you care about too, since if you really did care you wouldn’t be asking us you’d be asking the manufacturer. So this is all dramatic rhetorical table dressing on your part.

And if not, what possible difference would "fuse direction" make if the wiring following the fuse isn’t intentionally directional?

So what you are saying, the coffee was picked green, poorly roasted, and ground the wrong size, and brewed too long. What difference could it possibly make if its served cold? Or if you’re not into coffee, the hamburger still has marks from where the jockey was whipping it, so how can it make any difference if its bacon and cheese? I would give an audio example but you don’t seem much into that so hopefully one of these metaphors will do. If not I have others.

It would seem that wire directionality chaos exists in many if not all components yet they somehow work just fine.

Well, yes, that’s the whole point. But nobody is saying things don’t work, "just fine" or otherwise. What they’re saying is they sound better one way than another. A difference with a distinction. See?

I personally compared premium (all SR products) fuses to stock in an experiment a few years ago, and found them to be utterly worthless relative to the performance of stock (read inexpensive yet well made items like Littelfuse products) fuses.

Great. You can save a lot of money then.
And now having graciously agreed with your lack of listening skills, you get to have the last word:

Hyperbole laden claims of the sonic superiority of Magic Fuses abound around here, but I seriously doubt all of ’em, as do the vast majority of reasonable audiophiles and gear manufacturers..."thems just the facts," regardless of what many claim to perceive.