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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
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geoffkait
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I'm getting a bad feeling again.

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I think the argument is not so much about being possible or not, more so how much whatever might be reliably discerned about fuse direction to whatever extent it might exist matters.

Some say it does and some say it does not.

My personal opinion is if it does matter its way down on the list of things that I know for a fact matter.  Below things like even the robustness of the contacts/fit of the fuse as Atmasphere has pointed out based on his experience.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.  Including discounting the opinions of others even I suppose.  The question is always how much water does any one opinion carry.
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Mapman wrote,


"Below things like even the robustness of the contacts/fit of the fuse as Atmasphere has pointed out based on his experience."

Uh, problem is its not his experience,. Its  just  the old ivory tower academic type thing in action.


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mapman
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"

Uh, problem is its not his experience,. Its just the old ivory tower academic type thing in action.

"


Look who’s talking!

Atmasphere actually designs and makes highly regarded amplifiers using fuses.

What is your experience exactly that puts you in a position to question his?

Theoretical physics?

That’s fine but the problem is its well, just all theory.   You know, just the old ivory tower academic type thing in action.

You do get points for Chutzpah though.
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