Fuses that matter.

Personally I find the Synergistic Research fuses the most natural balanced fuses. I have tried 5 of the named brand ones either bought or tried through friends.They literally can take 200 hours to fully open up because of the solid Alloy end caps,type of composite metals ? Not disclosed . As far as direction The owner stated go with writing following the current flow.
Which I have done for years and seems to work out well.

Audioman58, I used to double check on rule of following the lettering as the current flow. In six trials that sounded better than the opposite. I will also note that I have always found the little WA fuse chips help the SR fuses if put on the center of the fuse. I have always found that treatment with the Tesla coil is better than cyrogenic treatment, but I have no idea whether they do the same thing.

Norm,

Never did the Tesla thing but multiple cryo's sound better than just the one. It seems to be progressive, I have had the same parts treated up to six times. Enhances magnets and powders as well. Chill only don't heat temper. Tom

I had to learn some fuses will breakin much more then others for their end caps are a solid alloy and just like Interconnects can take in some cases over 200 hours .look at the Review online of the Synergistic fuses
The reviewer stated even into the several weeks he then heard them open up. What the review does not say is did he have the unit playing music 24-7
As a rule of thumb I just let play for a solid 10 days or roughly 250 hours to fully settle in components ,as well as fuses. The first 100 hours with the synergistic are tippedup in scale.they donot expose type of metal but
I know their new metal Tungston they use in one of their better cables a small % The majority ofCopper,and Silver.The most depth out of
Any fuses I have tried and I have tried the top 5 most popular out there.
Also for the doubters,look at the metals resistance index steel in the common fuse has 7x more resistance then Copper or Silver ,which is a Huge bottleneck X all the fuses. Expensive yes but low level detail,and
Separation of instruments is what the fuses do best as well as small improvements elsewhere.forget the few bucks spent.i spent over $500
Alone when I had the Ayon Skylla dac 11fuses but sonicly worth it.bsd design,the less fuses the better in a circuit.

I dunno if anyone else has tried it, but I personally find the new Super Fuse from Audio Magic to be very open, detailed and natural sounding.