Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp

Happy listening, even to those that refuse to follow the scientific process of observation and experimentation, in their own systems, with their own ears, FOR FREE (ie: 30 day return policy, from some manufacturers).

@barts, how will you know if you don’t try? There are literally thousand’s of posts here on Agon alone that describe what they hear and how to do it. You don’t need an uber expensive fuse either. Try the Acme Special Coated Audio Labs Silver Cryo Fuses at $20 a pop.

Your ears are no worse than some of our long in the tooth members here, including myself.☺ It sounds as if you’ve already talked yourself out of trying. What’s the expression? Nothing beats a failure but a try? Remember this is a hobby and it’s supposed to be fun!

Ya puts the fuse on a perfectly level surface plate, then flick one end with the nail of your right index figure.  If it flies off the surface plate and breaks on the floor, you've got a bad fuse.  Better luck next time.  If it stays on the surface plate, select the end of the fuse that is pointing away from you and stick it in first.  I won't insult you by telling you where to stick it.

Placebo effect at work.

None the less saying something is hogwash, is hogwash especially when it comes to cables and wire direction. It’s simple, cables sound and work differently in one direction than the other. The reason to condition cabling the direction it is pushed through the dies. It not only matters, it’s the difference weather I buy your STUFF or not.

Ted Denny hasn’t said a word, yet you bring up his products as if YOU tried them. I’d really doubt that one.. Great products at an astronomical price. Still great products with a FULL money back guarantee. There is NO reason for anyone to complain about that.. You don’t KNOW about a product so you get to slam it. No!

Quite the word salad! Complete with self contradiction. Apparently the comment about Ted isn't directed at me; I didn't bring him up. But coincidentally, we've been playing some Synergistic speaker cables in the shop for the last month. Our customer that brought them in exclaimed how they were so transformative. We ran a comparison, just for fun, between them and our shop cables, which we made up from 10ga oxygen free copper wire. Everyone in the shop was challenged to hear a difference. Our speakers though are 16 Ohms and speaker cables are far less critical when driving 16 Ohms as opposed to 8 or 4 Ohms.

It’s not a question of truth, it’s a question of weather you keep up with what the heck is really going on.

Priceless! 🤣

Spoiler alert: Truth is what is going on.

@tyray 

No, I haven't talked myself out of trying fuses, I just haven't talked myself into trying them.  Partly because the four ARC amps I use to power my tri-amped system have seven fuses each.  So, that's 28 fuses just in the amps. And then another 5 in the front end, for a total of 33.

You can see where that would get pricey very quickly especially if your talkin' SR fuses.  I appreciate the Acme fuse suggestion, so that would only be $700 to do them all rather than the >$4000 variety.

Honestly I don't need to be reminded that this is fun.  It's all about the music to me not the nth degree of what I can get out of my system.   

Regards,

barts