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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Showing 24 responses by georgehifi

You're embarrassing yourself here.


Ah, allnoise, your the only one doing that
We all know you are a fuser, that's why the majority ratio of your post are on boutique fuses, and advocate they are somehow directional in an AC mains path.
Like I said get the manufacturers to back up your BS on these snake oil fuses.


Shows just how much you know, the Australian Dingo is one of the smartest dogs on this planet, and infinitely smarter than you, and they make the best pets.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2010/03/dingoes-skilled-at-reading-human-ges...
LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.

Like I said, a fanatic.
So true.
Like I've said many many times.
Just get SR to come on here to these pages to back up your snake oil voodoo BS about these AC mains fuses on what they do for the sound and their directionality difference in sound quality.
I think that's fair, as any audio manufacture would be only too pleased to back their product here if true.
funny how there’s so much dogged support and descriptions of sound on these $150+ fuses from members who only have a few posts?????
LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.
 
Why is this still a thing?
Because BS must be stamped out at all costs in this industry, to keep this hobby honest.
I have stated on a previous post that Music Direct has a 60 day return policy.
Have you stated that you pay for the post and it must be Fedex or UPS, trackable and insured, and they may charge for re-stocking fee as well.

You may as well keep it, I bet that's what the manufacturers bank on you doing 


What a crock of **** really you guys need to be committed for believing this crud! With regards to AC Mains fuses, and the effect on sound.

Are you guys (no idiots), committed to turning hi end audio into the laughing stock of the electronic audio world

"shear wave interference"


SWI distortion wow!!!! that’s a new one, hope all the tech gurus like Nelson Pass, John Curl, Dan D’Agostino ect ect ect are taking notes on this one as they’ve now been relegated to the back seat.

Who pray tell discovered this new exciting distortion, so he can be put into the audio design hall of fame!!!!! He just has to be recognized!!!

You had dirty resistive fuse contacts on one speaker, and who the hell puts fuses in the speaker signal path anyway!!!! I know Magneplan used to and were chastised for doing it..
I wish I had come up with this phrase but you’re drowning in a reckless, infantile philosophy.
Allnoise, stop being such a nong.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nong
So, on one hand we have 10s of thousands of audiophiles who hear a beneficial sonic improvement with fuses
That btw is well over the top, and they definitely aren't audiophiles.

Just show one of these $$$ "boutique fuse manufacture" posts or advert, where they confirm for what these 10s K delusional "fusers" believe, especially the directional claims for ac fuses????
 
 "When" you don't hear a difference, then return them for a full refund.
They bank on you "not doing" just that, it's how "snake oilers" work.

Even these $$$ boutique fuse manufacturers are smart enough not to stand up for the claims made by fusers on forums.
Other audio equipment manufacturers do, (wonder what difference could be????)



Attempting to equate these two things only shows your lack of knowledge and proves my point about who advocates for fuses.

He's probably the dumbest of all the fusers here, as he "tries to justify" his stupidity.
Cheers George
We all know you can’t hear the difference so why oh why do you need to waste our time with your insulting negativity.
To counter the snake oil, voodoo, BS told here by shilling fusers.

Seeing it's the Chinese New Year of the Ox, everything needs the real Yang told to any BS’ing Ying.
When you replace, with a stable solid directional device, a magnet the increase in performance is incredible.

A magnet has directionality built in and can follow the signal path in a circuit providing another enhancement. Tom

All your answers prove you are delusional about ac mains fuses, especially them being "directional" in an ac mains flow, that "changes it’s direction" 60 x a second (60hz in the US and 50hz in Au) THAT"S WHY IT"S CALLED ALTERNATING CURRENT!!
You would have to pull the fuse in and out at the same rate (60 x a second) and not breaking ac <> flow to hear if were directional, that’s just how delusional you are.
replace an unstable resonant device a dangle dong contained in a glass straw (description of an AC fuse) with a stable solid directional device
Really!! to which "device" are you referring to, that is "directional" < > in an AC mains voltage path?? A diode?

Cheers George
Fuse is a very very small resistor on the supply line, whose value is almost no different from the rest of the copper supply wire it is in series with.

Now please repeat after me, while slowly and repeatedly banging your head against a corner wall:
They can’t while their heads are in the
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/scaled/2013/12/18/article-0-1A2B262D00000578-818_636x382.jpg
or up
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/pVpTlPhDI-JmTveZ_oeiW4LzfvebMP5EeBXpu_-8d7CK-QcJkhZfPUDJjfp1...

Cheers George


These people who say it does not make a difference are not willing to experiment.
That’s a massive assumption of yours, I have had an owner of one of these $150+ fuses who swears by them, he bought one to my place I "pretended" to put it in, but I DIDN’T. Then played the system again, he said wow that’s better!!!!
Then I put it in, he thinking the old Bussman went back in, then he said that’s back to being worse.!!!!!
I didn’t have the heart to tell him, he was conned. As he is a customer of mine.

BTW I heard absolutely no difference compared to my $2 Bussman fuse.

Cheers George
allnoise

See this is where your (sorry Jethro) thick as a brick, and ( Sitting on a park bench)
There is no mention of sound quality because of fuses, it’s all as amplifier fuse protection parameters measurements.
You can have distortion measurements in countless other things than just in audio, allnoise.


You don’t have to agree with all of it, but if it truly offends you, please seek help.

Sorry to disappoint, but anyone that keeps posting about fuses and their sound quality advantages and directionality differences, is the one that really "Needs Help", and you can take that as written in stone.

The day you hear from the "great audio designers" saying they install these $150+ snake oil fuses into their equipment as standard production because they "sound better" is the day you give up audio!

BTW, the John Curl interview you posted in your first post, if you comprehend it, only compares fuses as a "protection device" to save his amps from going up, nothing at all about comparing the ’sound quality" of them, I would stop insinuating John Curl is backing up your own beliefs.

Cheers George
The high end fuse has been progressing and selling
not everyone has a tin ear and and yes they can take well over 100 hours to fully settle in .that’s my opinion
How on earth can anyone say, "they take 100 hours to settle in", was a recording done 100 hours prior, and then compared to now? please say yes!! 
Anyways, time to feed the chickens..
Yeah give’em a fuse also , "maybe" then they’ll **** out directional eggs also!

No "snake oil" fuse threads for weeks on end, then suddenly two new fuse threads within a couple of hours.
These guys are behind it, https://ibb.co/LSrDX77

Cheers George