We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses


LOL, I'll bet I gotcha on that Title! ;)  BTW, I put this thread under "Tech Talk" category as it involves the system physically, not tangentially. 

More seriously, two question survey:

1. Do you think designer fuses are A) a Gift to audiophiles, or B) Snake Oil 

2. Have you ever tried them?  Yes or No

In the tradition of such questions on Agon, I'll weigh in as we go along... 
Feel free to discuss and rant all you wish, but I would like to see clear answers to the questions. :) 
douglas_schroeder
geoffkait - the notion of diretionality means to favour one direction over the other. If the current travels in two directions, there is no favoured direction, therefore directionality becomes irellevant, hence my use of the term 'indirectional'.

My question to you was how can a fuse demonstrate directionality i.e. to favour a particular direction when the current travels in both. Switching the fuse direction doesn't answer it as if the fuse was directional, there would always be one direction that would suffer - so you're just swapping the problem around.

And I would also go on to say that anyone who suggests that no fuse is best when fuses are put there to protect people from electric shock and potential death needs to think hard about their motivation to make such statements.
Dear Mr Chef, I’m afraid we’re having a bit of a communications problem. I’ve explained what I meant already. You want the fuse oriented so the direction of the current or the signal is toward the speakers. And yes, we know all about why fuses are used. Which is ironic since I don’t use fuses myself. Nor do I have places to use fuses even if I wanted to.
geoffkait, I was referring to criteria that would likely be agreed upon by all audiophiles. Beyond those three it becomes difficult to find agreement. 
The last time I looked audiophiles do not (rpt not) agree on much of anything. Do you seriously think any self respecting skeptic or audiophile would agree with the notion he can’t really hear or that his system is not all that. I mean, come on! There have been cases, not many I’ll grant you, where members have reported not hearing aftermarket fuses. I kinda doubt they will agree with you, that it’s their hearing or their system that’s to blame. Besides, I trust you’re not trying to speak for all audiophiles.
I am not interested in debating it with you. We have little in common on many aspects of audiophilia, and I am not going to take the time to argue something like this. Feel free to hold and voice your opinion, but debate it with someone else.  :)