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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Georgie, you forgot to mention that dingos can hear much better than you. 
Georgie, since you got your fee fees hurt with my last response, I'll leave out the snark but still need to remind you, again, that I don't advocate for the use of SR fuses. Never had. You know it. You're embarrassing yourself here.

All the best,
Nonoise

LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.
Like I said, a fanatic.
Because BS must be stamped out at all costs in this industry, to keep this hobby honest.
And you and your ilk are the self appointed crusaders. In other words, you and your kind are nothing more than run of the mill fanatics, who get aroused by posting such nonsense.

Do you self mutilate like the crusaders of old, after getting aroused?

All the best,
Nonoise


Allnoise, stop being such a nong.
Wow Georgie. I bet that goes over big with the crowd of 12 year olds you hang out with. Doesn’t that violate the terms of your parole agreement?

All the best,
Nonoise


audio2destroy, there you go again: I confuse nothing just because of your silly premise that I do.

And again, what's with the juvenile challenges signaling fear as the resolving factor? Years of doing this gives one an accurate enough handle on the sound of one's system to the point where they don't need to resort to parlor tricks to ascertain whether they're hallucinating. 

I wish I had come up with this phrase but you're drowning in a reckless, infantile philosophy.

All the best,
Nonoise
It's been shown that fanatically religious people who proselytize have the weakest of faith in their own beliefs. They do this out of fear of being wrong all the time past and need others to fervently believe the same stuff they do so as to prop themselves up (sort of a group support thing).

With every convert there comes a sense of momentary relief, only to vanish moments later. It becomes a never ending cycle. Like audio2destroy, they come up with silly premises and suppositions, and then generalize as if it's conventional wisdom. Heck they even go so far as to team up with others they hate (like Vegimite Moonshiner Georgie) and steal their insults, like name calling and other juvenile traits.

Like ricevs has pointed out, they haunt audio forums and troll away, in an attempt to rule the roost or close them down when they fail to do so. Many an online reviewer has closed their comments section from these losers, which probably aroused them to no end.

All the best,
Nonoise
Notice how the last two comments are basically cut-and-paste?
They'll give the same responses years from now, which is basically how all of these discussions on fuses have been for many a year.

It's like some form of arrested development.

All the best,
Nonoise
oldhvymec, he's just trolling as best he can since he doesn't have leg to stand on. Notice how it takes him awhile to muster up something bordering on smart aleck and nasty because he's run out of arguments to use. For him it's all a vendetta, like the rest of them. They need to get a hobby other than audio because it's really not working for them.

All the best,
Nonoise
If they were to follow your sage advice, they’d have nothing to whine about. Don’t forget that these trolls love that endorphin hit every time they post.

All the best,
Nonoise
audio2design, now you're down there with good ol' Georgie, in that rarified mud. Your two can be bunkmates. Feels like home, doesn't it?

All the best,
Nonoise
Nonoise that is a silly position to take.
And yet you took it and are still running with it.
 
You're new schtick of the old "I'm rubber and you're glue" is a pleasure to behold.

All the best,
Nonoise


Fuses feed into 10s or more feet of wire in a transformer and high inductance. Conveniently forgotten.
So do power cords and anyone with a working set of ears can hear the differences they make.

All this wire after the fuse is just another variation on the old, all those miles of wire before it gets to your outlet BS: another red herring.

All the best,
Nonoise


please take my advice and find a corner wall. It will really help your condition :)
See what I mean?


These naysayers are their own best audience.
Everyone else is just shaking their heads.

They say endorphins like the ones released from drug use account for the reason why these lame responses keep popping up. They're hooked on stupid.

All the best,
Nonoise
So it is the comprehension part that is different, down under. 
Or it's too much of that Vegemite moonshine, again.

All the best,
Nonoise
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.
I guess they speak a different kind of English down under. Or maybe it’s the comprehension part that is different.

The whole piece is on distortion and it’s effects on sound.

Curl starts out on protection devices and then goes on to the matter of fuses. On how they fluctuate current and that it hasn’t been measured properly. On how they vary resistance and how much that distorts.

If the piece is about distortion and its effect on sound, why would he mention fuses?
It wasn't mentioned as an aside.


All the best,
Nonoise


The old both sides do it doesn't cut it on an audio site where discussions on what improves the sound is what it's all about. 

Now if you were to direct your anger at the trolls who frequent all the audio sites because they like to "own" them, then you'd have a point.

Many reviewers have stopped taking comments on their sites, even on youtube, because of the vile nature of the trolls. If you've been an audiophile long enough, you'd know that this was not the case. In fact, it was considered an aberration. Petty, acrimonious and juvenile behavior has become the norm and it's not going to stop.

All the best,
Nonoise
Amazing how some can read that passage from the link and come away dumber than they were.

By the way, having tried different fuses and hearing the results is in no way an argument of faith. Having faith in something requires not having proof.

All the best,
Nonoise