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To Fuse or Not to Fuse... That is the question!

Ok.. I think I understand that no fuse is better than a cheap fuse. And a good fuse is better than a cheap fuse. But is no fuse better than the best fuse?

One person on Audiogon said that he achieved better sound by using a Blue fuse over no fuse. I guess my question is... Do these new, high dollar fuses just allow the current to flow better with solid protection or do they actually due to quantum physics or something, actually improve upon the signal by eliminating errant bad electrons and thereby actually improving the music over no fuse at all?

I gots to know!


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Well, it's better than those stale, old photos of fuses you've been using for the past millennia. 
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I’d watch that for a dollar!
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The german physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely:"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

Ladies and germs, meet the new fuse generation.

All the best,
Nonoise
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This is supposed to be a fun hobby.
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Wyred4Sound's STI-v2 integrated employs a circuit breaker on the back panel in lieu of a fuse. Hopefully, more manufacturers will catch on.

All the best,
Nonoise
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How did sex trade and bestiality make it into an audio forum?
There goes the neighborhood.
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When Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, I couldn't find which Circle of Hell this discussion came under, so I took a gander at Purgatirio and lo! I think I found it there. 

It seems that our penance is delayed and this discussion must go on for quite some time before we get back to Beatrice.

All the best,
Nonoise
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Like what was said, a standard, ceramic bodied fuse with filler and decent end caps will stand heads and shoulders above any glass bodied, throw away fuse. They're know as high rupturing fuses and have been around since time immemorial (not really, but long enough).

I've tried four different brands and the aftermarket ones were demonstrably better than the bog standard fuses in my Marantz Reference integrated and SACD player. 

They all had their own flavor, their own pluses and minuses, but no two fuses sounded alike.

The kicker is, the standard, ceramic bodied, high rupturing fuse that came with my Kinki Studio EX-M1 integrated bested all the aftermarket fuses I had on hand, and that one cost under $2.00. 

That could be a testament to the design of the Kinki product or some perfect storm of variables but it just goes to show that you won't know until you try.

All the best,
Nonoise
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