Audio Research and Acme Audio Labs fuse

WTF man?! Get a grip! It’s $17 dollars! These days, you can barely buy a family pack of toilet paper for $17 dollars!

That must be a Freudian slip?
Just consider the nay-sayers words as being like the TP.
(LTR)
 

Why don't we just defer to @cmcdaniel5 to report back as to whether he believe that they worked a treat on his ARC gear?

Also we do not know if @cmcdaniel5 , or anyone else, even contacted ARC as to what they recommend. This is in spite of responses 2, 3 and 4 saying to call ARC and the 4th providing the contact details.

My original post was how to determine whether inrush current was present on his amplifiers.

Anyhow, do the fuses work for you? And what did you hear when you put them in?

Well thought it time to report back.  Tried the fuses in the pre and phono pre amps. No lightening bolts from Zoltan nor balls of fire upon start up.   On the other hand really didn’t hear any night and day improvements in the sound either.  Despite this I felt it was a worthwhile experiment with little financial risk.   On the plus side am coming to the realization that my system as it stands is pretty darn good. Not to say that it’s perfect and a tweak here or there won’t yield benefits.  I’m, however, coming to understand that attainment of aural Nirvana is a subjective personal quest, bought at increasing cost with quickly diminishing returns.  Most importantly a rather unpleasant truth has come to the fore.  IMHO the greatest limitation to wonderful sound is not our playback equipment, but rather the choices made in the recording studio.  There are far too many mediocre recordings out there (both digital and analogue).  With this realization I’m putting upgrades on the back burner.  Instead I’m going spend time reading more record reviews, and best of all, sitting in the concert hall.

Did you check fuse directionally, and allow time to break in?

“So QSA makes a dual-element, time-delay version?”

A very good point @twoleftears 

@cmcdaniel5 I tried some Synergistic Research a couple time with different ARC amps and both times in the power amp the fuse popped upon power up.  I hit the switch and it shut down 1 sec later.  I was advised by both dealers to up my rating but chose to not take their advice and let it go.  Sounds like you were able to avoid this at least.