Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses.


There are 4 fuses in my Odyssey Stratos amp. I recently returned some AMR fuses because they rolled off the highs and lows a little too much for me. Mids were excellent though. Anyway, I'm getting ready to try the Hi-Fi Tuning Classic Gold fuses, as they are on clearance now for $10/ea. Are they any good? However, I have read that they are a directional fuse? Can anyone confirm this? If that is the case, does anyone know the current flow for the Odyssey Stratos? Or, does anyone know how figure out current flow by opening up the top and looking at the circuitry? 


jsbach1685
First of all the profit is not that impressive. You earn more money on speakers and cables. 

Our goal is to create the best results to improve the quality for the lowest costs. We don't focus on what will give the most money.

I give you another example; In 2015 we took many months to compare all the streamers and dacs there are on the market. To find what is the best. There was one brand who stood far above anything. This was Lumin.

So we became Lumin. Most shops in the Netherlands were not interested in  Lumin based on the low margin. How stuppid you can be!!

Audio always will be based on those products which are the best. They are the most easiest to sell.

We use shootouts to show that we have the best products. This makes it easy. At th end people want the best, so you need to give them the best they deserve!
"At the end it is not about what people say."

Says who?  


Oh right,  you.  🙄

We sell by shootout, people can make their own choices. If I had tested it before I would have sold it a lot earlier.

There are more brands in fuses. I had clients who used different brands. But when they compared to Hifi Tuning they replaced them.

Audio is comparing and testing. So test it yourself!!
Much discussion here about trusting your ears and how science cannot explain everything and yet, I am skeptical about the level of sonic difference (if any) that can be attributed to changing a fuse.   I am exponentially more skeptical about those who claim to clearly hear sonic differences between the installation direction of a fuse.

Have any of you who hear these differences ever really put that belief to the test?  I don't mean changing the fuse and then proclaiming how the sonic difference/improvement is clearly evident but rather a more challenging method of testing your ability to ascertain differences or improvements after changing a fuse?  

Here is a challenge;

1. Select two fuses that can be easily identified (e.g. Red and Black, etc.)
2. Insert one of the fuses in whichever of  your equipment you believe displays the greatest sonic impact from changing the fuse 
3. Listen for a reasonably extended period of hours to days using a variety of your familiar music, and take notes so you have a record of how the fuse sounds to you, and then repeat with the second fuse - keep track of which fuse is which in your notes
4. Enlist the help of a spouse or friend to install one of the two fuses and keep a record of which fuse is installed, but do not let them tell you which it is (for the test, make sure your spouse/friend installs the fuses in the same direction as you did under steps 2 and 3) 
5. Listen again for a similar extended period, compare what you hear with your initial two sets of listening notes and then write down which fuse you believe is installed
6. Repeat this process at least 5 times with the spouse/friend switching, or perhaps sometimes not switching, fuses but using each of the two fuses a nearly equal amount of times
7. At the end, let us know how many times you correctly identified which fuse was installed

If the differences between fuses are as profound as described in this thread, then I suspect many of you will guess correctly every time.   I would be curious to hear how you make out, and even more curious how you you do using the same procedure applied to the directionality of one fuse...any takers....Geoff?