Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!)


It is with reluctance that I start another thread on this topic with the ONLY GOAL for believers to share their experience about aftermarket fuses.
To others: you can call us snobs, emperors w/o clothes,... etc but I hope you refrain posting just your opinion here. If you did not hear any difference, great, maybe there isn’t.

The main driver for this new post is that I am starting a project to mod my NAD M25 7 ch amp for my home theater. It has 19 fuses (2 per channel, 4 on the power supply board, 1 main AC) and I will try a mix of AMR Gold, SR Black and Audio Magic Platinum (anyway that is the plan, I may try out some other brands/models). As it is reasonably difficult to change them, esp the ones on each channel module that requires complete disassembly, I would like to know what the direction is for these models mentioned and of course, others who HAVE HEARD there is a difference please share your experience on any fuse model you have tried.

Fuses are IME directional:
Isoclean is one of the first to indicate the direction (2008/2009) on their fuses. Users of HiFi Tuning (when the awareness rose quite a bit amongst audiophiles) have mostly heard the difference.

As an IEEE engineer, I was highly skeptical of cabling decades ago (I like the speaker design of John Dunlavy but he said on many occasions that cables nor footers matter at all, WRONG!). Luckily, my curiosity proved me wrong as well. I see the same skepticism that I and many others had about the need for aftermarket cables many, many years ago now on fuses and esp on the direction on fuses.

Another example is the direction of capacitors (I do not mean electrolytic types). Even some manufacturers now and certainly many in the past did not believe it can make a difference sonically. Maybe some do but it takes time in the assembly to sort and put them in the right direction/order (esp as some of the cap manufacturers still do not indicate "polarity") so that maybe is one argument why this is not universally implemented.








128x128jazzonthehudson
mross1949, I am happy to learn that you tried, reaping the benefits of your experiment. Like with all cables, technological advances leads to better fuses. Too bad that others still reFUSE to try.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.” 
- Frank Zappa
"...the higher the resolution and the quality of the components that are involved, the greater the benefits fuse upgrades are likely to provide."

Forsooth.
infection wrote,

""...the higher the resolution and the quality of the components that are involved, the greater the benefits fuse upgrades are likely to provide."

Forsooth."

I hate to make snap judgements but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as an audiophile who believes his system is not one of those highly resolving ones. Really, really highly resolving. Especially if they’ve been an audiophile for 40 years.



in fact I was involved at one time with third party testing for VERY big projects, you know Government and Military projects.
$2000 hammers?
 
atmasphere
4,804 posts
05-11-2016 5:59pm
Geoffkait: "in fact I was involved at one time with third party testing for VERY big projects, you know Government and Military projects."

to which Atmasphere quipped,

"$2000 hammers?"

Ho, ho, ho. No, it wasn't $10,000 toilet seats, either.