Upgrading Fuses

Nicely stated, Lacee. I agree with your perspective save one comment:

*****What's the satisfaction? Is it a sense of superiority that he is too smart to fall for such drivel as a fuse having any significance?*****

I think you got it backwards. It is a sense on inferiority. Inferiority at not being able to hear what others can, or fear of not being able to. The proof of this is in a very telling comment by Metro when he states:

**** the onus of proof is on the person claiming to have extraordinary human abilities****

There is nothing extra ordinary about it. Some have better, or better trained, hearing/listening ability than others. That's all. What I find ironic about all this is that the differences that we are talking about pale in comparison to the differences that musicians debate concerning equipment. Differences, as in the case of Stradivarius violins, no one has reliably been able to measure and quantify.

Milpai - "snake oil in high end audio, it does not apply to all the products."

No argument here.

"So you guys totally assume things?"

When it comes to what we regard as snake oil one side assumes away science and the other side assumes away the belief that it makes sense to disregard science. The assumption count has to come up even at the end. There is a neat thread somewhere on this site that asks folks about their personal limits of acceptance for what is 'obvious' snake oil and what is worth consideration.
You are likely not reading this with a pan on your head because you assume you do not have to worry about it protecting you from being harmed by aliens, but you can't prove that aliens aren't reading your mind right now, you assume.

"I think it is a bit wrong to assume that humans know everything about metals/electricity/etc in physics."

Agreed, but if we didn't do the best we could with what we know then you'd probably have that pan on your head right now.

Frogman,

You're right about musicians. All the guitarists I know (some famous, some not) are very particular about whether they use a certain tube amplifier or one of solid state design. None of them argue over whether there's a difference.

10-12-11: Jeff_jones
"There is a neat thread somewhere on this site that asks folks about their personal limits of acceptance for what is 'obvious' snake oil and what is worth consideration."

To me, this is the crux of the debate. When someone's limit is above or below their own some people simply cannot deal with that.
George Carlin had a bit like this about driving (apologies in advance for butchering):
When you come up on someone who is driving slower than you, you say, "C'mon A-hole, move it! That guy's an A-hole!!"
When someone passes you, you say, "Look at that mainiac! That guy's a maniac!!"

Jeff, thanks for sparing me all the typing to basically reiterate our mutual opinions, though you presented it more eloquently than I could, or would’ve.

I’m afraid I really don’t have anything more to submit to this debate that hasn’t been expressed many times over by now, or in previous controversial topics heavily debated over the years where moderators ended up pulling the plug.

These debates continue year after year, but the reality is, neither “hardened” camp really ever sways or converts, but that’s okay, too, just like so many other things in life.

On that note, my friend, I’ll leave you to it.

Sebrof, Lacee... Pleasure!