Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Dear @oregonpapa : As many of us years ago I learned and understand that the best capacitor or resistor is: no capacitor/no resistor at all, only the best type of these items where is need it.

Two years ago and after I installed separate power line regulators/surge protectors/noise reduction items in my system came to my mind that maybe the best fuse is not-fuse at all.

I have to say that I used almost every new kid in the block but the blues. So I took action and due that I had KCAG silver Kimber Kable I decided to eliminate every single input fuse and fuse's holders from my whole electronics including subwoofers and use the KK cable. All my electronics are SS.

I decided to do it thinking that if  the power line now is fully regulated and bullet proff with surge protrectors then the item input fuses are just out of the " equation ", we don't need it any more.

Differences with out any single input fuses ( it does not matters which ones we have installed. ) is nigth and day. 
You just can live with out this kind of set up. It's a no return-road.

Any one can do this and we can have a quality level improvement that no " Diamond SR " fuse can outperforms. Just try it and compare vs your blues. It could be a learning audio task.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @almarg @oregonpapa @nonoise and friends: Even with fuses internal circuit problems can occur and the item could be not protected against it.

My phonolinepream and amp monobloks have internally other fuses at power supply that I don’t touched.

What I did it is to hardwire with the silver Kimber Kable from the regulators directly to the input power supply on each item by-passing too the item input connectors.

I already have this kind of set up for over two years now with no failure at all and I think it will stay that way.

I had more than 40 years in audio and in all those years I never had a problem with internal shor circuit or something similar. The times that a fuse bow-up were for different reasons.

Can I have a problem in the future?, who knows but the rewards are so formidable/outstanding that is worth to take that " non-probable " risk. No fuses can gives that kind of paramount quality levels differences.

@oregonpapa you tested in that ARC that’s a more " sensitive " item to problems than my Levinson monobloks and you never had a problem.

Of course that’s up to each one of us doing what I did.
It’s so amazing that I just can’t come back to fuses, any one. Yes, my risk and is welcomed ! !

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Btw, I can´t remember if was on this thread where through a link I read what D.Berning found out with his experiences with high end fuses. Self experiences and from his customers whom sended to him their electronics ( Berning amps. ) to fix it and where he found out that what damged his amps was the high end fuses that does not acomplish the electrical standards. He said in that forum that is a real risk to use high end fuses.

Unfortunatelly I don't have that link but maybe some one can remember it and share with us.

Dear @oregonpapa : """  In other words, the best we can ever hope to hear is what entered the microphone? """

not really because no one of us or high end audio item manufacturers has total control of what happens trhough the whole recording sessions till the LP is in our hands.

So, the best we can acomplish ( some day. ) is to listen what is in the recorded LP grooves.
As a fact my traget is to mantain at minimum all kind of distortions at each single link in the whole audio system/room/ears chain.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.