Yup and notice he talks about fuses in the context of protection circuitry which is what a fuse is for. Nothing about fuses and sound quality. I recommend to take it from an expert and move on.
The guru on fuses:
For two years, I have asked why and how fuses could possibly matter. All I got was arguments of faith, pro or con. I needed a real audio guru who actually knows. Here is a link from John Curl’s discussion on Parasound’s website. He engineered and designed some some great equipment, including some Mark Levinson gear, The Grateful Dead’s 30 plus McIntosh amp powered Wall of Sound, and his admittedly, somewhat price compromised Parasound designs. He discusses the electrical properties of standard fuses, showing how they are compromised. The entire article is quite enlightening, but to skip to the fuse section, go to the bottom half of page 6. https://www.parasound.com/pdfs/JCinterview.pdf
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Audionet Humboldt uses a Rhodium fuse. Is it for better contact ?What Rhodium can bring that standard fuses can’t ? http://en.audionet.de/machines/humboldt/ |
Stop looking outside yourself for confirmation of your own worth/knowledge/reality. Be your own Guru. Buy some $20 Create Audio fuses from Parts Connexion and listen. Then you will know something. All true knowledge is directly perceived by our senses. Do not trust what anyone says.....including yourself. Believe your experience. More and more my experience shows me that everyone is beautiful and worthy of the infinite possibilities that are right in front of us. Enjoy every second. You are beautiful and loved......forever. |
Always amazed how different people are able to see or read the same thing and come to completely different conclusions. Here's what caught my eye: Of course, this is almost impossible to measure statically. Once you put a resistive load on and a certain amount of power the fuse is going to go up to it’s temperature and stay there and the resistance is not going to change very quickly, so you never know that the fuse is distorting. It only distorts getting up there and then going back down. It doesn’t necessarily distort by the time you’re ready to make the measurements. That’s one of our problems with static measurements. You just don’t know everything that you need to know.Something I have been saying for a very long time now: measurement ain't all that! Also this one passage, the lower half of page 6 that OP thought was so good, all it talks about is resistance. It's also a really, really simplistic view. After all, he himself says Something you learn in entry level classes, by the way. So put it all together, what have we got? The man himself saying it should be obvious there's a lot more going on than we can measure. Well if we can't measure- and no less an authority than John Curl just told us we can't- then what are we left with? Our ears. Listen. When we do that it very quickly becomes perfectly obvious there are vast differences between fuses, and even between the same fuse used one direction vs another. Go and listen. You will see. |
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