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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.








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jea48
4,446 posts
 

geoffkait,

What part don't you understand? You're continually trying to nitpick responses with certain people in threads. Sometimes asking for proof and then you will say in the same thread to take your word as the gospel. I think you just love to argue. 


 LOL..... You can't even remember what you are arguing about.

Jea48, What on Earth are you going on about? Can you make it easy for everyone to follow your line of uh reasoning and state your problem in a sentence or two?

Huh?


I suggest you start from the start of the entire thread and reread all your posts/responses to others, their responses to yours, and yours back to them. Maybe if you kept notes it might help. 

Best regards,

jea48



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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
Jea48, you would undoubtedly save yourself a lot of angst and confusion by doing some due diligence prior to getting involved in the whole fuse directionality thing. I’m afraid I can’t help you a a there appears to be nothing I can say that you will accept. I think I’ve made myself clear. Good luck with all that.

cheers

Geoff Kait
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mapman
22,302 posts
 

jea,

You will undoubtedly save a lot of angst and confusion by expecting nothing from some people because that is exactly what you are likely to get.

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