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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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In order to believe in high end fuses you might first have to believe that blind testing is not essential. As a long term audiophile and an electrical engineer my experience is that either I can hear what is happening in a blind test or else I can't hear it at all. There is a reason that folks used to believe in various snake oil health products and I think it is the same reason folks believe in expensive fuses. 
The other thing, in the article it made it sound as if measuring-recording-analyzing transients (fuse resistance change in this example) was difficult. It is easy. 
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