Something For The Fuse Guys ...

He was a grocery clerk sent to collect a bill. But seriously, he was sent from the future. He is an old enemy of mine there, in the future, part of an underground Pseudo Skeptic society. I only come back here for the jokes. One of the risks of the job. Fortunately, my jokes still hold up even without the straight guy’s lines. 😛

Are you saying he might have been a ringer? Someone with the chops to take us on, on this site, as we've yet to be defeated?

If so, someone should tell them we're all a bunch of heretics, science be damned, and their charms, their wit, their animosity, and their vast catalogue of knowledge has no chance with the likes of us. 👍

All the best,
Nonoise

Anyone want to venture a guess as to who he really was? 

I’m genuinely sorry to see him go. 😥 He was the best straight man a comedian could hope for. Better than Dean Martin. It’s funny. As a kid when I would tell people I was going to be a comedian they all laughed at me. Well, no one’s laughing now!

Hey, moopman, just curious, is your 🍑 itchier than usual today? School. As a kid my mom would say I should enjoy it ‘cause one day I’d have to work for a living. I said, No, I won’t, ma. I’m going to be an audiophile. 🤡

By the time "he" got to his point by point attack against Paul of PS Audio, it got kinda nasty and personal. That, and there was a lot of assuming and reading between lines that didn't exist. There was an air of desperateness about it as composed.

Like grannyring said, he was a smart guy but.....

All the best,
Nonoise

Thank goodness for the relief. I started cringing when I saw that username on threads. Not enjoyable for the most part. Too bad really as he had some knowledge, but it was overshadowed by his nartow field of vision and manner.

All of his posts are essentially the same. “I’m so smart everything I say must be correct.”

Freudian slip......

Well that didn't take long. Some people just can't help themselves...

I think that membership has been deleted.

Thanks for that, audiogon.

It was getting a bit obvious, but it probably had to, in all reason... wait until it was clear.

So many deleted posts!    Did someone get embarrassed?    Never mind(I’m certain: I didn’t miss anything important)!

All of his posts are essentially the same. “I’m so smart everything I say must be correct.” “Evidence is the same as proof.” Give is a break. Gee, I always assumed his name was tin can. You know, as in kicking a tin can down the street. 🤡 I’m on a roll today. Better look out!

Of course, that is not what he posted.
it's a re-invention to show himself in a better light.

Re-typing a long comment that was just deleted by the Mods might not be the best strategy in this particular case but let’s wait and see what happens. 🤡 But let me help you out with a few phrases you can use,

”As everybody knows...”

”There is no debate among those who know such things...”

”I can find no evidence anywhere that disputes what I said.”

”I am an expert therefore I’m right.”

Those who don’t learn the lessons of the past oft repeat the same mistakes. - Confucius

See ... that deletion really screwed things up. Now we can't see what teo was responding to. Must have been a real dig to elicit this:

• "intractable, incurable circular psychopaths."

I hope teo won't be offended if I steal it and use it elsewhere, like in some of the political forums I visit.  It's brilliant and suits so many, so well. 

Frank

Was that a self deletion I just saw? Oh, my!

Kudos to analgloober for writing an almost grammatically correct sentence. I’m not worried about him correcting the sentence because he doesn’t know what grammatically means.

Imagine, people accuse me of shooting fish in a barrel. 🐟 🐠 🐠 

Listen to George 
dont listen to a snake oil salesman who peddles magic rocks 🙄

Hey, thanks roberttcan! That’s might decent of ya! I’m giving serious consideration to putting you on the payroll. Maybe as a Junior Shill.

georgehifi
It’s a counter measure, to BS on $150 mains fuses.

I urge those here to use it and pass it on and post it up, every time BS is presented on the sound of AC mains fuses and their installed direction
@analogluvr roberttcan pass this on

>>>>>If one listens to George’s advice on fuses then the logical next step is to ignore power cords. Ignore their construction, their purity of conductor, quality of their connectors, whether they are solid core or stranded and their directionality. We should also ignore wall outlets and wall outlet covers, if we listen to George. Conclusion: don’t listen to George.

roberttcan
5) Paul at PS audio while not as bad as many, is not overly technical and is not known for the technical honestly of his communication.

>>>That’s an excellent example of how pseudo skeptics, when they run out of legitimate arguments, stoop to using such old fake arguments as calling the opponent dishonest. Ad hominem attacks frequently pop up in these threads. Others are even worse than Paul at PS Audio? OMG! 😩

roberttcan
2) There is no discussion of what fuse they used. Obviously not understanding fuses at the time means they may have picked a poor one with high resistance or more likely running too hard and they got excessive resistance and thermal modulation.

>>>>>But as you yourself already pointed out, and very astutely, there are extremely small differences among the fuses measured for resistance. So you’re obviously grasping at straws. What a load of horse man knew her!

roberttcan
3) It could have had something to do with how they put the fuse into the system, the fuse-holder, etc.

>>>No, sorry, we’ve already shown the fuse holder to be wishful thinking - a RED HERRING - on the part of overly enthusiastic pseudo skeptics. Just grasping at straws. If it was the fuse holder causing the problem, e.g., imperfections, oxidation, etc. it would be repeatable and transferrable, which it’s not. It’s random. Whereas fuses themselves, including their directionality, are repeatable and transferrable.

Testing of fuses is performed without the fuse holder, by the way. Make sense? Having said that some fuse holders are better than others. The Acme Audio silver plated fuse holders, which I’ve used in the past, are excellent and sound better than your stock everyday fuse holder. Are fuse holders directional. Are connectors directional? So many questions. So little time. 🤡

^^^

ps ...

I don’t doubt your experience with the fuses you tried.

On the other hand, I’ve been using after-market fuses for years now, and have yet (knock on wood) had one blow. Also, each incarnation of fuses improved the sound substantially over the ones they replaced. For the improvement they bring, considering their price, compared to many other tweaks that are marginal in any improvement they bring to the table, are a good value.

Full disclosure ... some on this forum are sorely lacking in a sense of humor.

Frank

Assuming there are good soap operas, much of this thread is one depressingly horrible soap.

There are grown men -perhaps a mistaken assumption- calling each other stupid names over some damn expensive fuses and pseudo-science. Ad hominem, anonymous, childish attacks, based on what?

Full disclosure. I did try some SR fuses in my tube electronics. And, yes, they did make a modest improvement in reducing grain. BUT, due to some sort of electronic gremlins, three of these fuses blew. $450.00 worth. POOF! GONE!

It’s simply not worth it. And, of course, YMMV. But please, "gentlemen" stop the name-calling and hyperbole, aka total BS.

One last thought regarding the OP, who spoke of "wanting to commit rape and murder," I suggest you delete those comments from this public forum.

May I be so bold as to recommend Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi' as a reading assignment?

I'd like to post this link to a PS Audio experience which surprised them,   https://www.psaudio.com/pauls-posts/fuses/      They had no expectation bias, just the opposite, that a fuse wouldn't affect the sound. But introducing fuses in the output of an amp in the production stage stuffed it's sonics, working backward they identified the newly added fuses as the cause, fuses matter.

It’s a counter measure, to BS on $150 mains fuses.

I urge those here to use it and pass it on and post it up, every time BS is presented on the sound of AC mains fuses and their installed direction
@analogluvr roberttcan pass this on

If you don’t want to blow $150
Change your old crusty fuses that may have seen too many turn on cycles (pics attached), then do it with the same $1 fuse, not the BS $150 SR boutique ones, as they will sound the same and age just as fast.

Pics of fast and slow blo fuses that have seen too many turn on cycles over a couple of years.
https://ibb.co/PzWvzwr (left to right over time aging)
https://ibb.co/17Tvy6t (right to left over time aging)

• "It has to be O.C.D. Nothing else can explain it."

Maybe it is just his refusal to take the meds.

Pics of fast and slow blo fuses that have seen too many turn on cycles over a couple of years.
https://ibb.co/PzWvzwr (left to right over time aging)
https://ibb.co/17Tvy6t (right to left over time aging) 

It has to be O.C.D. Nothing else can explain it.

Snake oil is the lubricant that greases the tracks of the train of progress. All aboard! Toot! Toot! 🚂 Remember what the Little Engine that Could said, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!” 🤗

George, George, George of the Jungle, look out for that tree!! 🤕

Just more voodoo snake oil product salesmen.

As far as BS fuses go
If you don’t want to blow $150
Change your old crusty fuses that may have seen too many turn on cycles (pics attached), then do it with the same $1 fuse, not the BS $150 SR boutique ones, as they will sound the same and age just as fast.

Pics of fast and slow blo fuses that have seen too many turn on cycles over a couple of years.
https://ibb.co/PzWvzwr (left to right over time aging)
https://ibb.co/17Tvy6t (right to left over time aging)

Cheers George

Ok,

now go get your wall of university level physicists.
bring them on.
good luck......
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-gravity-crystals-method-exploring-physics.html

appeals to authority, air of authority, rhetorical questions that you supply an answer for. dismissal before discussion.

All anti-science.

Every sin possible that is against logic and discussion.


And you go under a pseudonym and don't reveal your name, unlike the others here whom you disparage.

Your posts are crap.

I thought he was excellent in Lawrence of Arabia.

Not that you had any credibility, but when you even try to suggest Dr. Floyd Toole doesn’t know what he is doing ... you lose any left.

Floyd knew what he was doing. Within a very narrow window. Floyd was a specialist.

Remember what Heinlein said about specialization....

One again, robcan, if you are so knowledgeable, please take a stab at explaining the physics of a liquid metal audio cable. Have at it. Prove or disprove it’s validity in audio. The audio world awaits.

Try to remember this: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Always gotta try and find that different point of view. EG, just now, looking at my new dog rescue. And wondering what is going on in that mind of hers.

To her, we probably all look like something akin to oversized malformed waddling meercats.

Hey, I’ve got an idea. Ask him if he wants you to loan him one. See what he says. 

You probably have a statue of him on your nightstand.