Upgrading Fuses

"I'm sure there are even counterfeit fuses being made as well as power cords, interconnects, and speaker wire."

I think you are right.
Cardas has, or used to have, problems with others counterfeiting their cables & has/had info on there website on how to spot a fake. There also was a internet big to-doo over an established cable manufacturer re-naming an existing power cable and bumping the price somewhere around 500%. When you read cable manufacturer website info you see the occasional comment about "that other guy" basically just using cable made by the existing large scale production manufacturers and then making it more cosmetically appealing.
When I'm in doubt on a tweak, I try to see if I can find information about the brick and mortar production facilities that the vendor is using. If I can't verify such facilities exist, it makes me go hummm.

"How many people are going to take apart their $5000.00 interconnects to make sure they have really got what they paid for"
Folks are nerdy enough to take apart blown fuses and check them against specs for common production fuses though. If you eventually blow a few you could probably sell the corpses on this website. I and many others are too cheap to buy new pricey fuses just to tear them up for curiosities sake.

I''ve never claimed to be a genius, but I know when i'm in the presence of one, metro04. Even if I'm far beneath your level, i hope you won't abandon us and stop despensing advice!

So here goes: I'm in a bit of a panic. I can't find any independent, vetted research studies to support Conrad-Johnson's claim that the teflon capacitors they use affect the sound in their equipment. Per Your guidelines Meteo04, this must mean I've been ripped off. I was hoping you could post the academic studies you used for buying all of your equipment. This would help all of us make much better purchasing choices.

To the scientifically approaching people:

Explain me what is the "life" in any living being. What happens to this "life" after the living being dies? Where does it go? Can you track it? Can your degrees create or measure that "life"? If you can do that and explain my questions, I will start believing the following:
All amps are same
All wires are same
All fuses are the same
All humans....nope..that is going too far.

I guess some things cannot be explained by measurements or science. We can argue - why do we believe that humans evolved out of apes? Have you guys seen it happen with your own eyes? Nope, but we still believe it. On the other hand if we hear a component and find that it does sound different, why the hell are we arguing about it? It is in front of our very own eyes and we are listening to it with our very own ears!! He he he...got carried over.

The people on the other side of the fence can say, the non-believers are actually the ones who are wrong. Why? Because they "assume" everything in audio is the same - without actually using (trying) the product. Yes snake oil exists in abundance in any hobby. But we have the equipments (namely our ears) to identify them. Why not give it a try without prejudice? BTW, not everyone hears the same. and that could be the reason some of us believe and some don't.

So, lets continue with the original topic and let each of us have our own opinions :-)

Amen, Milpai.

Bless you, Milpai.
So much of debate hangs on unproven, underlying assumptions; e.g., our technologically enhanced senses can fully grasp reality. Hundreds of years ago humanity lacked instruments to "see" bacteria that caused millions of deaths in plague. Our inability to detect them didn't negate their effects. What instrumentation do we lack today to understand causative agents of perceived effects? Inability to measure cause is not a valid reason for dismissing effect.