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
You are talking about Chips and fuses who are fake. My personal opinion is that over 95% of all product in audio are not worth the money it cost.

There are so many different products who are not that good as people think they are. I think this post will be removed agian.

People don't want to hear the truth, people want to hear what they wish to hear.




Tests are used to give an idea about the quality of the product? How big do you think the chance is that this is the truth?
Hello, just curious, how can they test a WA Quantum Chip? Has anyone actually tried to test one? I am not referring to listening tests, I’m already on board the whole freewheelin’ WA Chip thing. I’m referring to more uh, traditional tests. For example a fuse WA Quantum Chip. Oh, just an FYI - the first quantum chip, the original orange Intelligent Chip from Golden Sound, celebrated it’s 10th anniversary last year. ;-) There was even chips subsequent to the Intelligent Chip, which was for treating CDs, for placing on power cords and cables.

geoff kait
machina dramatica
we do artificial atoms right

I wrote:

Another consideration regarding directionality. A fuse which is properly specified for the circuit is half way toward melting.

To which geofkait asked:
How so, Thom? If that’s actually true, what is the relationship of being "half way toward melting" to directionality? Just curious.  

I don't have an answer as to the effect based on a fuse's operating environment, but think about how directionality is explained - by the drawing of wire through a die inducing some sort of molecular alignment or orientation. 

If this wire (fuse) is then heated to near its melting point (and it remains so in its normal operating environment), couldn't this possibly have an influence on said orientation?

Perhaps this has already been covered since you asked the question.  This thread has taken off beyond my time constraints to follow it.

... Thom

This kind of thinking would intimate that it’s a diode one way but not the other!!!

And it’s not like linear crystal wire that for memory Vandenhul or someone bought out in the 80’s, that can’t be bent at all either.

It’s not a diode, or linear crystal to have such an effect.

It’s resistance wire, end of story and 1/2" long at that!!!!


Cheers George