Upgrading Fuses

Jeff,

Your lack of seriousness makes you a far more worthy opponent than I have been on this forum. I took the bait and that's my bad. I, do, however, find it hard to resist defending good products made by good people. Questioning the veracity of a product is fair; ridiculing the people who make the product and those who use it is nasty. It's interesting to see that people who ridicule others and question other people's honesty don't want to be on the receiving end of the same treatment. Maybe there's a lesson there. I'm sure there's a far better way to make the point, but someone else will have to figure it out. With regard to the OP's question. I agree that it has been "asked and answered." The joy these fuses continue to bring me is one thing I wish for everyone....even Metro04.

Double extra super special attaboy amen Metro4 !!!

10-10-11: Metro04
"Maybe you can provide a single documented event where ANY participant correctly picked the better “anything” 80% of the time?"

Can you provide a single documented event where the participants could not correctly pick the HI Fuse? Probably not.
You don't know they make no difference any more than the guy who sits and listens and trusts his ears and says they do.
IOW - You are both just guessing. But you are as sure as he is in what you believe, and you poke fun like you know something he doesn't.

Sebrof: Again, the onus of proof lies with the person claiming to have extraordinary human abilities. If you “claim” that you can read minds, move objects telepathically, hover, see through walls, or any other abnormal levels of sensory abilities, then be prepared to have to prove it to the civilized world. That’s pretty much a world-wide stance regarding human feats of this nature. If you opt not to be subjected to testing, if not for scientific reasons alone, then don't expect anyone to take you seriously. I realize it's a tough reality.

Humans have been making all kinds of extraordinary claims and witnessings since man’s beginning, yet never seem to overwhelmingly pass verification methods beyond guessing percentages, or simply can't/won't produce factual evidence. You can wrangle any defensive angles you want, but outside the sanctuary of your audiophile world, I’m afraid you’ll have to back up your claims. :-)

Metro - Where anyone draws the line between superhuman and human is completely arbitrary.
Zip cord vs. expensive speaker cables superhuman?
NOS Tele vs. new production Electro Harmonix?
Budget amp vs. expensive amp?
mp3s vs. WAV?

You just happen to draw it beneath Hi Fi fuses (and brilliant pebbles in the other thread you started), some other guy draws the line somewhere else. My coworker was telling me the other day I was nuts because I said an iTunes-purchased album I copied to CD sounded bad, and I was wasting my money because I ordered the CD.

2 things I've learned in this hobby:
1. There is enough snake oil in Hi Fi to make your head spin
2. There is way more that goes into what we hear than we know in 2011. We are just scratching the surface.

My guess is that I would not hear a Hi Fi fuse in my system, and that probably nobody can in any system. It appears that it's your guess as well, but a guess it is.
FWIW - If it were me I would swap out the fuses with my eyes closed and see if I could REALLY tell, but not everyone's like me.