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
Wolf_Garcia, you are wasting your time. I took EE cources and took enough more physics courses to get a major. I know physics has not totally mastered natures laws, so you cannot say there is no physical explanation in EE for why fuses would differ. But the expensive SR Black fuse are both expensive and work quite well. Today I'm going to change the direction of the five of them in my line stage and amp. I am going to go with the best sounding direction.
That 112 dollar sandwich may or may not taste good (for that price I hope it does). Taste good or not it won't improve the sound of an audio component. The good news is the SR Black fuses have improved sound quality for "many" experienced music lovers on this forum. Tbg  you're right, there are numerous observable phenomenon yet to be explained by our current knowledge of physics.
Charles,
Tbg  you're right, there are numerous observable phenomenon yet to be explained by our current knowledge of physics.
This is true, but if you've not tried to correlate that voltage drop across the fuse and its holder, you don't know if a simple explanation is the cause.

IOW assuming that what you hear is due to some sort of woo factor without trying a simple measurement is likely going to result in an incorrect conclusion.

  I know physics has not totally mastered natures laws, so you cannot say there is no physical explanation in EE for why fuses would differ.
This statement seems self-contradictory. Is this really what you meant to say??
Note the quotation marks around "many." How telling. There isn't even any actual evidence that SR "quantum tunnels" (man…nice choice of terms there SR, as not only does it not make sense, it sounds great!) anything with their silly claims of having their Chinese factory treat this tiny wire with "2,000,000 volts" of unobtainable juice, any rational explanation of why they would do this, or why the ratings on the fuses is apparently dangerously incorrect ("buy the higher rating just to be sure it works" has actually been suggested by the promoters of what is essentially a safety device). People's imagined claims that these fuses do something and then do it better reversed should be regarded as the weirdly imagined nonsense that it is, and the rabid promotion of these products by a few zealots is a shameful fraud. Buy a reliable Littlefuse and save the 100 bucks for some sandwiches…you'll feel like everything sounds much better...

+1 Wolf, pure voodoo.

And as Ralph say, it's "expectation bias", and that's all anyone gets for $100, except the seller, he's laughing all the way to the bank.  


Cheers George