To Fuse or Not to Fuse... That is the question!

To Fuse or Not to Fuse... That is the question!...Might be better titled to use a stock fuse or upgrade?. No fuse means no sound. Don’t stick in a 22 round either.

All I can say is that I noticed a difference. And (drum roll please) so did my wife who could generally care less.

I read all the literature before getting a Synergistic blue. Now there’s Orange! O R A N G E...cryogenically frozen by Tapist Monks.

Did I drink the kookaid? Maybe. Synergistic strives to keep it clean so there’s that too. They give you a thirty day money back guarantee.

The typical installed fuse is nothing fancy.

Ok, what I meant by No Fuse, was bypassing the fuse with copper or silver wire. Is the Blue or now the Orange fuse doing something other than just making a great connection? Is it actually enhancing the sound somehow making the sound even better than a direct connection? 

I also need 7 fuses in each of my amps, two in my preamp and at least one in my CD player. This totals 17 fuses. $2700.00 This is more than my original system cost back in the day. 

I am frantically searching a previous post in hopes to find what I think I read, that someone bypassed the fuses and then tried a Blue fuse. He found that he liked the sound of the Blue fuse over bypassing. So, hence the question.... What did the fuse do other than be a great fuse?

I am frantically searching a previous post in hopes to find what I think I read, that someone bypassed the fuses and then tried a Blue fuse. He found that he liked the sound of the Blue fuse over bypassing. So, hence the question.... What did the fuse do other than be a great fuse?

I would speculate that the fuse simply resulted in sonic changes that happened to be subjectively preferable in the particular system to the particular listener.  While more likely than not being less true to the source material than the bypass he tried.

Regards,
-- Al

If only one person said it you can dismiss him as an outlier. A copper plug will have a lot less electrical resistance than a teeny tiny fuse wire. Of course, it’s possibly that a copper plug in the wrong direction could sound worse than a fancy fuse in the right direction. 🤡