The guru on fuses:


For two years, I have asked why and how fuses could possibly matter. All I got was arguments of faith, pro or con. I needed a real audio guru who actually knows. Here is a link from John Curl’s discussion on Parasound’s website. He engineered and designed some some great equipment, including some Mark Levinson gear, The Grateful Dead’s 30 plus McIntosh amp powered Wall of Sound, and his admittedly, somewhat price compromised Parasound designs. He discusses the electrical properties of standard fuses, showing how they are compromised. The entire article is quite enlightening, but to skip to the fuse section, go to the bottom half of page 6. https://www.parasound.com/pdfs/JCinterview.pdf

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We're pretty lucky in that John Curl is a member of our local audio society and he regularly attends our Friday Zoom Happy Hours. After most of the crowd breaks for dinner we have the Happy Hour after party where John gets a bit more involved in the discussions. Let's put it this way, the man didn't get to where he is today by not respecting the laws of physics and electrical engineering. He does place an emphasis on listening, but understands that you have to have a solid circuit with which to base that listening off of. That involves ensuring the test measurements are up to snuff.

Roger Modjeski was also a member of the audio society prior to his passing. He used fuses from the Little Fuse company in his designs. I've got hundreds of them here to resupply customers with the proper fuses for their amplifiers. To say the least, Roger was not very enamored with the expensive exotic fuses.

Sure you can use your ears but hopefully nothing will blow up or catch on fire while you are listening.