Fuses that matter.


I have tried six different fuses, including some that were claimed to not be directional. I have long used the IsoClean fuses as the best I have heard. No longer! I just got two 10 amp slow-blows WiFi Tuning Supreme fuses that really cost too much but do make a major difference in my sound. I still don't understand how a fuse or its direction can alter sound reproduction for the better, but they do and the Supreme is indeed! I hear more detail in the recordings giving me a more holographic image. I also hear more of the top and bottom ends. If only you could buy them for a couple of bucks each.
tbg
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
-Lewis Carroll
Horse Latitudes

When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over

- J. Morrison
This thread has recently spiraled down to, " Look at me! Look at me!" Anyone care to bring this back on topic? Any professional comparison reviews?
06-06-12: Talk2me
Any professional comparison reviews?
My fuse experiment, described here, gave me an opportunity to compare fuses. At this point, I've tried 4 types of fuses in 3 pieces of equipment...

Meridian preamp: stock, Hifi Tuning Silverstar, Isoclean
Pass amp: stock, Hifi Tuning Silverstar, Furutech
Parasound Halo amp: stock, Furutech

In ONE case I heard a similarity between two fuses of the same type when used in two different pieces of equipment, and that was the Hifi Tuning Silverstars. When installed in the Meridian preamp and the Pass amp, the Silverstars had the result of making things sound "phasey," as I described in my experiment.

Having said that, I suspect that the audible characteristics of fuses are largely extrinsic, and therefore variable from component to component and system to system. Admittedly, that is a speculation.

Bryon