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Fuses that matter.

I have tried six different fuses, including some that were claimed to not be directional. I have long used the IsoClean fuses as the best I have heard. No longer! I just got two 10 amp slow-blows WiFi Tuning Supreme fuses that really cost too much but do make a major difference in my sound. I still don't understand how a fuse or its direction can alter sound reproduction for the better, but they do and the Supreme is indeed! I hear more detail in the recordings giving me a more holographic image. I also hear more of the top and bottom ends. If only you could buy them for a couple of bucks each.
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brownsfan
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Roxy, I wouldn't touch your comment with a ten inch pole.

Rodman, I have a few of these fuses. They are not completely filled with the polymer. Maybe about 75-80%. I don't know what the coefficient of thermal expansion is for this particular polymer, but it would take an enormous amount of heat to pressurize the fuse to the point of breaking the glass or pushing off the end cap. This particular fuse is a 800 milliamp fast blow fuse. If the OP's Sony drew enough current to do this, he's got more to worry about than a non conductive polymer on his PC board.
brownsfan
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Rodman, I agree that something must have gone wrong. The residual gas in the fuse could have pressurized sufficiently to crack an existing flaw in the glass I suppose.
brownsfan
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Hifitime, You make some valid points, but I think we need to give people like Jerry at Audio Magic credit for not being complete idiots. I don't know if he has had his fuses retested by UL or not. But I do think when he was designing his fuses he probably didn't just drill a hole in a 5A fuse, fill it with some quaker state 10W30, and start selling them as 5A fuses without ensuring that they blow at the specified current.

However, his customers need to use some common sense too. When I replaced my standard 8A fast blow fuses with the AM liquid filled fuses I bought a 7A fuse instead of an 8. I'm hoping that gives me a little extra insurance that the fuse will blow when (hopefully before) I need it to blow.
I've had about 7 of these fuses in my system since they first came out. They do make a difference, and I think the risk is low enough to be acceptable. For those that think otherwise, there are plenty of non-fluid filled fuses out there. I also have a few SR fuses in my system.
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