Mapman - LOL! Flipping the direction of the fuse is on my "to do" list. Believe it or not, even 5 minutes for that is hard to come by. You won't hear any hyperbole from me about the fuse. I am not really a hard core tweeker. It is what it is. FWIW, I would have been happy with a much cheaper Acme fuse (well regarded by other local audiophiles), but the value I needed is not offered by Acme. It may possibly end up being one of those things where I know that my fuse is not holding anything back, even if the stock fuse didn't either. Sort of a piece of mind deal. I did think it was funny, or interesting, that someone on that thread read my initial impressions and immediately *knew* that I had the fuse installed in the wrong direction. Maybe he's correct.