What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed

"Raw data becomes cooked data once it enters your head, or at least it's refried."

Well, its probably to safe to say that biases exist to some degree in all cases with everyone.

COuld be too much salt, not enough garlic, a-typical hearing, listening to the same thing/stuff all the time, whatever.

Its all a very sophisticated yet imperfect process, for sure.

I tried a new $200 power cord on my DAC recently. I am pretty sure I hear a diffference, but it is quite subtle and hard to be 100% sure of, but I feel it was a good investment for teh $50 it ended up costing me.

Would I hear a fuse orientation change? Maybe first time at best (some of my fuses have never been touched since, well, forever), but I am skeptical about that even, and would be even more uncertain from there I suspect, therefore I will save myself the pain and uncertainty and just enjoy the good music until it stops being that and I have to figure out whats wrong now once again.

Wolf man wrote,

"I'm gonna reverse the direction of all the fuses in my rig, listen to it, reverse some of them, reverse the other ones, re-reverse the previously reversed ones, and then return the entire thing to its non reversed state."

I realize you're joking but the only way to do it with any chance of success is reverse the fuses one at a time and listen for a change in the sound. If the sound is judgement better for the first fuse go to next fuse. If the sound is worse put the fuse back in the way it was. If you're not sure if the sound is better or worse leave it alone and come back to it later. Continue until all fuses have been auditioned. Then repeat the whole procedure in case there were some fuses you were uncertain about. It will be much easier to hear the difference in direction the second time around.

Newton did not need a technical explanation or even mathematics to realize what was going on when he saw an apple fall from a tree. The most important part of the whole scientific method thing is the ob-ser-va-tion. Hel-loo!

As David Farragut once said, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." There will always be folks sitting on the sidelines throwing things at the players on the field.

Mapman wrote,

"Would I hear a fuse orientation change? Maybe first time at best (some of my fuses have never been touched since, well, forever), but I am skeptical about that even, and would be even more uncertain from there I suspect, therefore I will save myself the pain and uncertainty and just enjoy the good music until it stops being that and I have to figure out whats wrong now once again."

The Age of Uncertainty. And Pain. :-)