Synergestic Black Fuse vs Audio Magic BeesWax

Shadorne

BTW If ever a fuse made a difference then it is time to throw out the pos component. Why keep something so badly designed that a fuse makes an audible difference?

Yup. You got it. Even a basic well made power supply is not going to change audibly with a change of fuse. If it does then you imagined it or your component doesn’t even have a decent power supply.

Interesting!  My experience is 180 degrees different.

I hear NO differences rolling fuses in mid to low level BUT hear improvements in high level components.   Same goes for cables ...

Began playing with audio fuses years years ago on Sonic Frontier pre / amp and 1st generation Benchmark DAC 1 and heard no differences.   Improvements are easily audible in current components.

Shadorne

Well your experience suggests that what you regard as high level components don’t appear to be all that reliable and robust.

It depends on your definition of high level - does it mean high fidelity (in which case a mere fuse should not affect the audio) or does high level mean an expensive boutique custom item that was built and tuned by ear to sound great but without an emphasis on low distortion and elimination of extraneous factors (like a mere fuse) affecting the sound quality.

Simple, what sounds best to me.   In my case, comparing old to new system is similar to Yugo vs Mercedes.

Why stop at fuses, if one can hear a difference between wires, capacitors, ... then it's flawed.  Totally illogical!

Call me lucky, I'm happy with full loom of SR Blue fuses.  I was using full loom of SR Black for years until Blues were introduced.
  
So tell me, what doesn't age except for the GOAT Tom Brady??