Synergistic Red Fuse ...

2channel8

Welcome to the fuse thread ...

Try the "source" equipment first. 

Not a good idea using a solid copper plug in place of a fuse ... especially if your fire insurance isn't up to date, or if you can't afford new equipment to replace burned out circuits.

Happy listening ...

@oregonpapa 
1) Thanks for the welcome and advice.
2) I was only gonna try it for a few minutes. ;^)
3) Don't tell my insurance company!

Happy Holidays!
I'm listening to the Harry Belafonte Christmas CD as I cook Octopus sauce for a generations old traditional Italian Christmas Eve feast. Now moving on to stuffing the shrimp.

^^^  Octopus sauce?  Sounds like a rustic Italian dish to me. Man, I love Italian food. I always add a few anchovie fillets to my basic tomato sauces to improve depth. You can't detect the anchovies, but its a great "secret" ingredient. 

Hope you have a terrific family dinner tonight. :-)

Merry Christmas. 

A good quality breaker costs about $40 and replaces the on/off switch that carries its own cost. No, a great quality circuit breaker will not impact the sound any more than a quality power switch. 

Another big area for improvement in amps are the binding posts. Want to hear an improvement on the order of what these high end fuses deliver? Ok, get rid of the binding posts! No kidding. I know most won't ever go for this for many reasons, but the improvement is substantial.  Ok this is for out of the box designers and builders. Build tube amps/amps  with the output transformer leads running out to a nicely designed Teflon post that is built to clamp the tranny leads to the speaker cable. The only role the Teflon or wooden post plays is to clamp! Certainly a professional designer could design such a part that is simple to use and rugged. I use Teflon bolts, nuts and washers to accomplish it. Very notiicable and like all fuses,  connectors no matter the cost, all degrade sound. Yes I hard wire my power cord and ICs to my DIY tube amp for best sound:)

Grannyring ...

I have a friend who does exactly what you suggested with hard-wiring.  I haven't heard his system as he lives in Utah and I live in California. But, he tells me about these improvements all the time. In fact, he's the friend who changed out the binding posts on my speakers for a quality set of Cardas copper binding posts. That was a significant improvement right there.