Synergistic Red Fuse ...

georgehifi
Finally I just installed the fuse with direction along with the flow of electricity and decided to leave it then.

"Hate to tell you, but AC electricity doesn’t flow, it alternates back and forward 50 or 60 time a second (50hz 60hz) depending which country your in. So the directionality of an ac mains fuses is all "expectation bias". You’d have better cred if you belived in the tooth fairy."

It’s not really "electricity" that is alternating, it’s the current that’s alternating. The voltage is not alternating. Otherwise they’d call it AV. Furthermore as we’ve discussed many many times all fuses, even bog standard fuses, exhibit voltage drops that are slightly different depending on direction - even in AC circuits! [Refer to HiFi tuning data sheets.] So fuses ARE directional with respect to conductivity, even in AC circuits. Hel-loo! Also recall we aren’t worried about the direction back toward the wall anyway, only the direction toward the speakers. So the alternating current argument is dead in the water. And when someone says, "in the direction of the flow of electricity" that means in the direction TOWARD the speakers and AWAY from the wall. The electricity does eventually get to the speakers, doesn’t it?

First, kudos to Aeoluskratos for a sincere and nicely done first post.

Second, I don’t wish to rehash the subject of fuse directionality, which has been debated ad nauseam in this thread. But I want to correct a misstatement of fact:

Geoffkait 5-10-2017
It’s not really "electricity" that is alternating, it’s the current that’s alternating. The voltage is not alternating. Otherwise they’d call it AV.

Both the voltage and the current alternate in AC. That follows from the fact that per Ohm’s Law, which applies to resistive loads, voltage and current are directly proportional to each other. (And for a capacitive load current is proportional to the rate of change of voltage, and vice versa for an inductive load, and all of those quantities also alternate in the case of AC).

That can be easily seen on an oscilloscope, where the vertical axis of the graph that is displayed corresponds to voltage and the horizontal axis corresponds to time. AC will look like a close approximation of a sine wave, swinging both positively and negatively, above and below zero volts.

Regards,
-- Al

Then comes the question of what exactly is the origin point, the true meaning... of phase lead and lag?

Not the textbook engineering (incomplete false dead end) answer, but how does it arise - as a complex question in the quantum sciences? That is more the essential question.

As the engineering answers, neither explain or solve any of these issues that the ear hears.

Otherwise this circular merry go round would have died off in the very first two person discussion.

The suggestion is that neither party has a true grip on the issues.

One is willing to admit there is a problem (listeners with ears), and willing to admit they don't know.

The other is not willing to admit that their engineering bible is flawed and full of holes in it's logic edicts.

Those who 'get it' from both sides of the scenario, will never be involved in such discussions, as the answers allow for the making of product or solutions in the scenario, which are also potentials for financial gain.

Some who may not know how it all works, might find themselves manipulating the effects in order to make money off the people who admit they hear something going on.

It is a market that is seemingly at odds with itself from all directions.

+1 @almarg

@aeoluskratos

As some have stated, on badly designed equipment with under-rated fuses the fuse can be stressed on power up and resistance may rise leading to eventual failure. This used to happen in the past with Zinc based fuses. This should not happen with modern copper or silver based fuses in proper modern well designsed equipment. Should you experience an improvement it suggests that the original fuse was faulty. That you hear no directionality is correct - there isn’t any.