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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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luisma31
516 posts
 
Just read the entire thread, wow this escalated quickly, I guess I'm lucky my wife kept me busy on Valentines day apart from the forums.
I don't know about fuses but George's comment about allnoise and sorry Jethro and nonoise vegemite moonshine, damn that's some good comedy right there, I respect you guys, I had a good laugh thank you.

I personally don't believe too much in fuses because my equipment is not very prone to change its sound with fuses, cables and such but I don't disregard other people's experiences, (unless they are clearly delusional and in need of a straight jacket)
brubin
121 posts
 
Stop listening to these people who are negative about trying new things.   Try it for yourself then make your own judgment.   


morestereostuff
6 posts
 
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. 
luisma31
516 posts
 
For the record if the last 2 comments @brubin and @morestereostuff are addressing my former comment I personally don't believe too much because I tried them and could not say there was a difference, sounded the same.But my equipment is "difficult" reacting to changesMy take is it was well engineered to avoid changes from external factors line emissions, cables, and such
audio2design
1,351 posts
 
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.



It is only difficult to people who don't know how .... which are people making those statement. Not a coincidence.

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