Quantum Science Audio Thread

@ozzy i would start your worthy search w aerospace grade breakers… all manner of delicate and resolving circuit are protected in this way….just imagine F-22 pilot changing a fuse on the phased array while in a 5g turn……

Using a drop in breaker made of audiophile approved metals is one to go. The other is to use fuses with superior metals for conducting instead of the cheap low conductive metals found in bog standard fuses.

Imagine using any of the metals found in standard fuses in any of your cables and it will start to make sense.

All the best,
Nonoise

+1 for Nonoise.

Been using on/off breaker switches in my mods and gear for many years. Sounds better than a stock fuse. I learned the idea from Paul Weitzel of Tube Research Labs some 16 ears ago. Eaton Heinemann. Does it sound better than a QSA fuse? Don’t know as I never compared.

cerberus79
A few months ago I purchased a used pair of speakers from another Agon member.
To my surprise all the fuses were Orange fuses. I listened to them and then to satisfy my curiosity I replaced them with ordinary buss fuses and could not hear a difference.
I did this test with a bunch of friends and neither I or them could hear a difference. Kind of just says it all doesn't it?

To those non technical thinking of purchasing these $$$ fuses. Just save your $150+ and do this instead.

A fuse:
1: two end caps
2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).

To those "non technical" members that are interested in "maybe" wasting their money, do not listen to the non-technical, listen to the technicians of this industry that design the audio products you have and listen to. AND YOU WON"T SEE THEM ON THREADS LIKE THIS AGREEING WITH WHAT SAID HERE ABOUT THE SOUND IMPROVMENT DETAILS AND AC FUSE PLACEMENT DIRECTION, EVER!!!
Just clean and tighten your fuse holder and re-new your fuse (if old) with a good quality 50cent Bussman, Littlefuse or similar.As with "many switch-on surges" they do deteriorate, bend, stretch and get crusty with electrolysis formations on their fusible wire elements before they give out, as these pics show of a fuse wire element ageing over time show. https://ibb.co/9NbTwqK (even the $$$ boutique ones will age just as much also)

Cheers George