Fuses that matter.

Hi Bryon,

As you might expect, I'm not surprised.

Among the three possible reasons that you hypothesized for the non-repeatable initial perception, btw, I suspect that reason 1 was not the cause, and it was due either to differences in contact integrity or to actions by the dog. :-)

In view of your findings, and the comment by Wrm57 on 5-1-12 as well as my technically-based comment on 4-29-12, it would be interesting if some of those who swear by the expensive fuses were to undertake a comparison between a number of different kinds of inexpensive fuses, performing the comparison in a manner such that the possibility of extraneous variables affecting the results is eliminated, per my post of 4-28-12.

Best,
-- Al

Bryoncunningham...maybe you put 'em in backwards.

Hifitime , my Bose 901's has never sounded better after putting two coats of Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue on the paper cones and dust covers !!....

The purpose in doing this is to tame breakup resonance modes. In doing these coatings on these paper cones, you are able to extend the frequency range on both ends and avoid ugly response peaks in the midrange of these paper cones.

In all the years that Bose has been selling these 901's I'm amazed that they have not tried using treated paper cones !!...

I got more HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses in. The only one I have installed so far went into a prototype dac where I had an IsoClean fuse that had been Tesla coil treated by SR and painted by me with AVM. The result is typical. The sound stage became more realistic and the transients sharper. The other two will go into one of my preamps and into my phono stage.

Hi Wolf - I tried them forwards, sdrawkcab, miɿɿoɿɘb, uʍop ǝpısdn, and ndsıpǝ poʍu ɐup qɐɔʞʍɐɹps.

Hi Al - I agree it would be interesting to test a number of different cheap fuses. If my listening tests are valid, then there is an audible difference among at least some fuses. But like cables, more expensive doesn't always mean better.

Bryon