Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses.

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
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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

Georgelofi wrote,

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

Yes, it’s resistance wire. Resistance wire that measures better in one direction than the other, in terms of resistance. And it’s only 1/2" long at that!!! Would it be a fair statement to say that if the teeny little wire was say ten feet long the difference in measured resistance would be something to write home about? See where I’m going with this?

Recall the Carbon One conductor cables of yore? Was that Van den Hul? They would not be directional of course, nor would the current line of Stealth Audio pure carbon (nano fibers) conductor cables, no? News Flash! Van den Hul currently produced pure carbon conductor cables, maybe with carbon nanotubes. The plot thickens.

PS - I’m still trying to decode what Thom posted with respect to melting and directionality.

PPS - Say, does anyone happen to know if Jack Bybee is using carbon nanotubes in his new Bybee Bullets?

Van den Hul is a very nice person. For a couple of years he was always waiting for me at an audio show which was kept every year. 

He always wanted to make a round with me during this show.

I owned and tested his best cables. But these days he is not the best anymore. In my world only the best products count, the rest doesn't make sense.

When you use the chips wrong you will loose a lot of details and even in dynamics. It is easy to change the sound but it needs to be an improvement.

When they work well, you get a higher blacklevel and a sharper individual focus of instruments and voices.

And the low freq. become more tight with even more layers.

In many situations it also didn't improve the sound, you even went to a lower quality in sound.

You cannot use and buy them blind!!