What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed

I know what live music with no amplification sounds like...it's less loud, unless it's in your face..."get that damn bassoon out of my ear you FREAK." I also know what my acoustic guitar sounds like when I play it, except the only way to know what it sounds like to other people is to play something and quickly run around the guitar and listen to what I just played. You really have to be quick. Also, I wish I would have thought of the premium high end fuse business...damn...friggin' BRILLIANT. Maybe it's not too late...a fuse electron flow direction indicator gizmo could do it. "Eliminate improper fuse direction forever with my DECONFUSER." Tiny arrow labels included.

Almarg knows things. This is good.

The topic of "what live music sounds like" kills me. What we hear is influenced by personal perception that is individualized by ear wax, your hat, your background including mommy issues and environmental influences, food allergies, and cranium density (or emptiness). Also, I understand TBGs wit threshold as I have compassion for the humorless. I've been enthralled, irritated, freaked out by, compelled into trance like bliss, rendered itchy, and otherwise been exposed to a ridiculous range of live music including Thelonious Monk (I was maybe 11), my 4th grade autoharp gig, the Klezmatics, the Baltimore Consort, early Zep, Hendrix and Tull, weirdly entertaining open mic performers, decades of my own acoustic and electric endeavors including being haunted for many years by my guitar solo in an airline commercial, and all manner of jazz and classical stuff all over this flying wet meatball of a world...and my opinion is of no more importance than your drunk sister's...I am, by definition and professional standing, an expert, and I still would never try to define live sound for somebody else, other than trying to mix a show without irritating anybody...which I think only requires paying attention. To sum up, please pay attention. Sit up straight, spit out your gum, put the iPhone away, wake up your sister...

I'm gonna reverse the direction of all the fuses in my rig, listen to it, reverse some of them, reverse the other ones, re-reverse the previously reversed ones, and then return the entire thing to its non reversed state. Allowing for reversal and return burn in, I should finish comparing the results by late August.

My question remains, what live sound are we talking about? The sound of Esperanza Spaulding at Sculler's in Cambridge with Joe Lovano? Because at THAT show you couldn't hear her bass tone definition (bad sound mixer who should have been shot), and she wasn't singing...if you listen to acoustic jazz piano recordings, which I am addicted to, every piano sounds completely different due to mics (try matching THOSE from different brands), rooms, pianos, engineers, etc., and pretty much all of 'em sound fine. Just utterly different. Same with orchestral music of any kind, all of it sounds different. Often VERY different. Period. Unless you were there during the performance perhaps huddled under the conductor's podium, you don't know what it sounded like based on the recording, and would have no way to claim it as a "reference." To claim a baseline of live unamplified sound as your reference is a memory based position, and although useful and convenient personally, it is flawed as a communication tool due to all of these variables. This position doesn't obviate an understanding of what live instruments sound like, or what great hifi sounds like, it simply makes a point. Obviously you listen and percieve and develop taste from live and recorded things equally (because you're you) and apply that esthetic sense to both, but nearly infinite variables are right there, and should be understood.

Raw data becomes cooked data once it enters your head, or at least it's refried.

Item number 2 in my Get Rich Quick scheme: A unidirectional fuse! That's right...along with my previously mentioned "Deconfuser" testing apparatus, I plan to market a fuse to the confused that can be used in either direction with less chance for fuse abusing. I'll put little arrows on 'em going in BOTH directions declaring once and for all that bi-directional fuse useage can unconfuse users, leading to peace and harmony for all.

Feng Shui is nonesense, although design of interior space is interesting anyway. My next great idea: Tiny (I mean really tiny) damping rubber bands for fuses...only $127.50 each. You want these...I know you do...come on now...

Penn & Teller did a hilarious expose' of Feng Shui fraud by having a few "experts" (they say it's a science, NOT an art) secretly filmed while applying this "science" to the same room, and all of them were utterly disperate with one even trying to sell exclusive items to help with the process. Great stuff.

I HATE SPELLING ERRORS...so I thank Almarg for alerting me to this one, and encourage others to be so diligent. It was supposed to be "disparate." Also, I'm a fan of interesting interior design, architecture, blah blah...(especially Blah Blah) and am fully aware that one's surroundings can affect the way one feels. However, any attempt at the quantifying of the extremely personal phenomena of perception that's filtered through an individual's consciousness is nonesense, balderdash, and silliness. Now if I could just get the guard to return my posters to my cell...

Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" series is smart, funny, and accurate, although maybe too much for the simple or classically religious...get permission from an adult before watching it.