We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses

Kosst
We agree on something!
I detest Chicago!
In fact there are not that many big cities I do like, all the same to me.

We do a LOT of work in Ohio, last visit was to Canton.

New jersey..."the garbage state"... sorry to anybody who actually has the misfortune to live there.

Top cities for me

Rapid City
Denver
Portland
Spokane
Bozeman

Oops sorry forgot this was an angst ridden fuse thread.....

@uberwaltz +1 :-)

There’s no mystery that tubes have an obvious effect on the tone of things…this is exactly what I said, with no inference as to wondering why (I decide what to wonder about as I am the Wonder Decider). Also, to compare speaker cable performance with fuse performance seems ridiculous because many feet of purpose built wire is utterly a different enchilada, as a fuse is a teeny wire…albeit possibly utilizing Quantum Coupling and, as they say: "In fact, UEF Tech is so powerful even an electrical chain several miles long is fundimentally (their spelling) improved with nothing more than a single fuse engineered with our patented UEF Technology." Electrical chain into yer wallet!
On another note, New Jersey has some astonishingly beautiful areas away from the cities, and NYC is possibly the coolest city in the world and I visit there often. Sometimes to shop for fuses in the Fuse District.

wolf_garcia
There’s no mystery that tubes have an obvious effect on the tone of things…this is exactly what I said, with no inference as to wondering why (I decide what to wonder about as I am the Wonder Decider). Also, to compare speaker cable performance with fuse performance seems ridiculous because many feet of purpose built wire is utterly a different enchilada, as a fuse is a teeny wire…albeit possibly utilizing Quantum Coupling and, as they say: "In fact, UEF Tech is so powerful even an electrical chain several miles long is fundimentally (their spelling) improved with nothing more than a single fuse engineered with our patented UEF Technology." Electrical chain into yer wallet!

On another note, New Jersey has some astonishingly beautiful areas away from the cities, and NYC is possibly the coolest city in the world and I visit there often. Sometimes to shop for fuses in the Fuse District.

>>>>>>Probably best to file that one under Whatever.

Now I have it figured out Wolf
Try buying fuses from somewhere else than NYC
Their directionality is all screwed up to start with.

I've heard that NOS tubes used methods of fabrication which exposed workers to environmental hazards as the reason for either government or insurance reasons for discontinuing certain metals use in tube manufacturing.  Certain metals, combinations and/or utilization may have been potential or real danger. 

Also, tube fabrication was a secret art which manufacturers held close to the vest to gain on their competition.   That art is lost now.   This reminds me of the government banning virgin vinyl manufacturing in the U.S. for environmental reasons decades ago (pressing virgin vinyl is okay).

Another issue as to why there is more concern with power regulation today is the change in the power received in our homes.  Back in the 1940's to 1960's, power was relatively uncontaminated by RF and EMI.  We had radio and television but no digital signals. Today, are airwaves are so polluted that our equipment requires extensive power regulation measures to purify it for our audio use.  

Another fuse change - actually, I'm working with the same same two HiFi Tuning Fuses in a different DAC, this time the Eastern Electric Minimax Tube DAC Supreme. The Border Patrol DAC SE responded readily to aftermarket fuses, and now the EE DAC has also responded readily to fuse change. 

The results were once again not subtle, with such an easily discernible difference as to formulate a tentative conclusion that all DACs are sensitive to fuse changes, having tested a NOS DAC and an ESS Sabre laddered DAC. One or two more DACs chosen randomly and tested, and the conclusion will be well supported. I presume these findings will extend also to all other components, but with time I likely will have opportunity to explore that. 

Again, this is only changing one fuse location to an aftermarket fuse. That's all it takes for me to hear  the importance of fuses in altering sound. 

If the results continue on this path it will become obvious that the audiophile has not achieved their best effort at SOTA sound if they ignore aftermarket fuses.