Fuses that matter.

One Man says, "I heard it."

A Second Man says, "You heard what you wanted to hear."

The First Man says, "You didn't hear what you didn't want to hear."

A Third Man comes along. He says, "I heard it in some cases but not in others."

The first two men ponder, confer, agree. They say to the Third Man, "You heard and you didn't what you wanted and didn't want to hear."

The Third Man says, "But how can I tell when I wanted to hear something and when I didn't want to hear it?"

The first two men confer again, say, "Simple. When you heard it, you wanted to; when you didn't, you didn't."

The Third Man says, "There's something strangely circular about that."

The First Man says, "Circles are the basis of all logic."

The Second Man says, "That's true."

The Third Man says, "Hmm. How do you know that's true?"

The first two men say, "Because we want it to be."

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Bryon

A fifth man said, "Enough of this nonsense, let's go get a beer!"

There is no one here who considers himself a naysayer who has tried any of the new fuses or fuse directionality. All of the folks here who have tried new fuses and fuse directionality have reported positive results. (Bryon is kind of an exception, since he cannot yet prove to himself that new fuses or fuse directionality are as important as everyone says.) The new fuses from various companies have been very positively reviewed in all of the major audio magazines for many years.

Logically, what can we conclude from all of this evidence? Answer at 11.

Geoff Kait, Machina Dynamica

At the risk of seeming dense (which I am wont to do as others see me), let me repeat that it's all a matter of degree.

Some systems are already up and running to the point where the benefits of better fuses will not be as dramatic as in a lesser resolving system (this is NOT a knock on anyones system). Maybe a 5% improvement instead of a 20% improvement, making it harder to ascertain. Heck, the improvement may be even less than 5% and that would drive me mad, wondering if I were just imagining things.

From what I can glean from Bryons findings are that he DOES hear a difference. albeit not as big as the ones we hear. Too many variables that cannot be addressed here as to why but I don't feel him to be a naysayer, just more curious as to what is going on and careful not to attribute things to some corollary when not definitively established.

Cautious, not certain as of yet.

I, myself, thought I heard an improvement when changing fuse direction but I wasn't sure. But I keep them in the direction that 'seemed' to sound best.

There is this circle we seem to be on: a circle defined by words, or rather, our lack of them. If one were to carefully reread all the aforementioned, one would see that we pretty much agree on the positive effects of fuses, just not to the same degree.

As for that beer, I'll take some Pinor Noir.

Sorry, make that Pinot Noir (Lot 59 from the Santa Lucia Highlands, 2009) and I haven't even had a glass yet.