QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS

Many of the aftermarket fuses ARE ceramic. Can you believe it? If there were any failures of aftermarket fuses I’m pretty sure you would hear about it here. And all over the Internet. But there is only the sound of crickets. One imagines you probably won’t be purchasing any liquid-filled audiophile fuses anytime real soon. ;-)

Kudos to them for choosing ceramic.

I certainly encourage consumers to use what makes them happy. I hope I made it clear - that my comments were the perspective as a manufacturer and nothing more.

I have a secondary reason for not specifying audiophile fuses, which is to not stack the deck. IOW, someone is free to experiment with replaceable parts to their heart’s content (as long as of course, they're consistent with the specification) and if they discover an improvement in their system, that’s great.

All too frequently however, people try to solve architectural (design) problems with band aids. This is not to diminish the importance of parts quality, and parts (whether it’s fuses or cables or anything else) is a topic for a whole ’nuther thread - a rabbit hole I don’t have time or inclination to rehash for the thousandth time ;-)

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier Design

Whatever you do, don't do this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dvanzuijlekom/10474490106

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier Design

"All too frequently however, people try to solve architectural (design) problems with band aids. This is not to diminish the importance of parts quality, and parts (whether it’s fuses or cables or anything else) is a topic for a whole ’nuther thread - a rabbit hole I don’t have time or inclination to rehash for the thousandth time ;-)"

Not sure I can agree that people are trying to solve architectural (design) problems, whatever that actually means, by replacing stock fuses with aftermarket fuses. It’s strictly a sound quality issue. Those audiophiles. What are you going to do?

I wasn't implying that an audiophile fuse was an attempt to fix an architectural design problem and I tried to make that clear in the last paragraph of my previous post:

All too frequently however, people try to solve architectural (design) problems with band aids. This is not to diminish the importance of parts quality, and parts (whether it’s fuses or cables or anything else)...

Here's an example of an architectural/design problem:

A poorly designed power supply regulation circuit that sends hash into the signal.  The band aid fix?   A cable with a rolled off top end to hide the problem.  It's like turning up the volume on your car radio to mask the sound of your wheel bearing.

The real fix.  A competent design.  Fix the problem at the source. 

A good cable (or fuse) is just that - a good component and I'm all in favor of that.  What I'm lobbying for is to address as much as possible in the design of the product.  I'd hope that you're on board with that concept.

The problem here is of course, what's a poor audiophile to do?  Not everyone has design skills to identify the true source of the problem and as a result, they take a buckshot approach to solving it.  I wish I could propose a solution to this conundrum.

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier Design