Fuses that matter.

Tbg and everyone,

Well, here's a wrench to throw into the fuse mix, the AMR Gold fuse.

http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/goldfuse_individual.html

http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/large_image/AMR%20Music%20Fuse%20Review%20hifi%20ES.pdf

I was looking through the various 2012 RMAF reports and saw that Avatar Acoustics received outstanding comments from show reporters.

Since I know Darren and Bonnie of Avatar, having bought a Karan amp from them, as well as some Acoustic Systems resonators, and I still use their Afterburner 8 outlets.

I revisited their website to browse for anything new and saw the AMR Gold fuse. After reading the review, I thought that I'd try one. There's only $20.00 a piece and I still had one WA-Quantum fuse chip left unused.

I received it and put it in. Everyone using audiophile fuses should think about giving this a try. I'll just say that it's in and the three other high-end fuses are in the closet.

Chuck

Using gold in a fuse sounds like a reasonable thing to do technically if there is a market for it.

Mapman, why do you say that. Gold is not a good conductor.

I think gold is a good conductor compared to other metals that might be used. Silver is even better I believe.

Most importantly, for use in a fuse, I think it has a relatively low melting point as well compared to other metals. That would make it viable for fuse use.

Not sure if better than alloys used specifically in fuses or not. Definitely expensive! But gold does have more marketing appeal than alloys, so it might be reasonable to use it if there is a market willing to pay. Who knows, it probably has as good a chance of sounding better to someone as anything.

The AMR Gold fuse has gold plated copper end caps and a silver alloy as the filament. I don't know why they call it 'Gold fuse'.