Where has been your most effective placement for an aftermarket fuse?

That’s high hopes for any thread.
After all this site is here for people to sell things and make money. Hype kinda goes with the turf in high end audio.
I’m sure those not looking to profit might be able to behave themselves though.

One does have to wonder where the pricing will stop on fuses.

I don’t see anything much to stop it. Big profits, few facts, many opinions, money to spend.

It’s really all about cost. Nobody will object to paying a fair price for a fuse. But hype about sound quality has no end.

$500...no.

Makes these at $240 seem like a genuine bargain. They will only be appreciated, though, in @uberwaltz’s immortal words, by "those fortunate members with the hearing to know that they do indeed work".

That is a very good sales pitch for a tiny fuse that costs $240, the price of a fairly decent pair of headphones.

BTW on the Furutech site, a fuse only cost $54!!!!   Getting closer......

Also given the very proper assertion that results reported will vary case by case for many possible reasons (from no noticeable difference to whatever level of awesomeness is reported), it is not permitted to reject any reported results that displeases others or accuse people of bad hearing and/or bad systems, without any other evidence, as has pretty much always been done in threads past.

In other words....stick to the facts as presented.......

Here we go.....may the Gods have mercy on us......

To start, I have nothing new to report or assert that I have not already in the past. I tried a Red fuse given to me to try by another Agoner in my Audio Research sp16 pre-amp and heard no concrete difference between that and the stock fuse from ARC. It is sitting out as a spare currently.

uber,

That's good!  Maybe if the usual shillers, obfuscators (chief one is missing in action which bodes well for this) and other hardliners on both sides can tone it down a bit some useful information will come of it.

Does this mean it is acknowledged that fuse results may vary based on application?

That is at least a step in the right direction from the usual hype in these parts to just Spend whatever is possible on the latest Synergistic color, no questions asked because they are inherently always most awesome (not to mention directional). 

Progress....🙏


My answer is fuse will make the most difference in line with signal to a speaker like fuse used in Magnepans. But there is still nothing concrete other than opinion and conjecture regarding how much a fuse need cost to do the job even there.
3 figures for a tiny mysterious device like a fuse should always raise questions.