Hi-Fi Tuning gold fuse on Parasound

Your experience is the opposite of mine with the gold. I hear increased depth and texture, a slight midrange warmth without haze or detail obscuration, music congeals better, and the highs and bass are not truncated.

I wonder if you are unmasking another weak link? Not sure what is going on. Give it some more time in the position you perceive to have a good midrange and dynamics. A raw top end does benefit from settling time.

I've tried the gold fuses in 3 components with small but worthwhile improvements . The slow blow fuses have a resister in one end so direction is important on those . Resister side goes down stream according to Harmon . I usually stay away from anything silver , it can have some goofy affects .

If you have two fuses you might try reversing them one at a time if you haven't tried that already.

Parasound does have 2 fuses for each channel, both of them point outward now (as suggested by parasound support). I will try reversing each and see if the top end benefits from any.