@imgoodwithtools
It is a simple matter of expectation. I expect audio component power supplies to be well designed and well built. My criteria for a good design is that it should be completely insensitive to small changes in incoming power. Like a huge dam across a river - the actual instantaneous flow of the river into the large reservoir lake created by the dam is totally immaterial and irrelevant to the instantaneous power quality generated by the power station below the dam.
If your ARC Ref 6 is audibly affected by a fuse then you need to return it for maintenance or ask ARC if they are aware of such a minor detail audibly affecting audio signal output. This is to my mind a clear fault or design error. The purpose of buying high end high quality equipment is to enjoy audio that is completely free of parasitic contamination (from power or other extraneous factors) due to the extremely high quality robust over-engineered design and build.
To have a piece of highly engineered equipment with THD+N specifications in the -100 dB performance range and then find out that the sound depends entirely on the type of fuse used - this is pathetic engineering.
It is a simple matter of expectation. I expect audio component power supplies to be well designed and well built. My criteria for a good design is that it should be completely insensitive to small changes in incoming power. Like a huge dam across a river - the actual instantaneous flow of the river into the large reservoir lake created by the dam is totally immaterial and irrelevant to the instantaneous power quality generated by the power station below the dam.
If your ARC Ref 6 is audibly affected by a fuse then you need to return it for maintenance or ask ARC if they are aware of such a minor detail audibly affecting audio signal output. This is to my mind a clear fault or design error. The purpose of buying high end high quality equipment is to enjoy audio that is completely free of parasitic contamination (from power or other extraneous factors) due to the extremely high quality robust over-engineered design and build.
To have a piece of highly engineered equipment with THD+N specifications in the -100 dB performance range and then find out that the sound depends entirely on the type of fuse used - this is pathetic engineering.