Synergestic Black Fuse vs Audio Magic BeesWax

Shadorne

Well your experience suggests that what you regard as high level components don’t appear to be all that reliable and robust.

It depends on your definition of high level - does it mean high fidelity (in which case a mere fuse should not affect the audio) or does high level mean an expensive boutique custom item that was built and tuned by ear to sound great but without an emphasis on low distortion and elimination of extraneous factors (like a mere fuse) affecting the sound quality.

Simple, what sounds best to me.   In my case, comparing old to new system is similar to Yugo vs Mercedes.

Why stop at fuses, if one can hear a difference between wires, capacitors, ... then it's flawed.  Totally illogical!

@joecasey

If what sounds best to you is audibly affected by a mere fuse then I wish you good luck finding the right fuse (one that matches all the wires and capacitors in your gear) and hopefully one that works long enough to be worth your effort (break in being in hundreds of hours and then the fuse aging problem with cycling - if you get lucky picking the right matching fuse then perhaps it might sound “best” for more than just a few days before needing a replacement or the wires or capacitors will need adjustment/replacement)!

shadorne . All you can do with these snake oiler’s is present links and facts, and EE laws, and try to protect the gullible from it, they can either take it in, or choose to ignore it because they don’t understand.

Because they’ve spent >$100 on a 10mm piece of resistance wire, they’re naturally they’re going to have large expectation bias when it comes in the mail.

That’s when you get totally unbelievable statements like this.

I found with the SHD the noise floor dropped quite a bit, dynamics expanded, another layer of micro information, bass got tighter with even deeper extension. That was trying one in the AC line to our source which is cd.

And even more unbelievable, ones that say they can hear audible differences in an AC mains fuse direction of insertion!!!!

Cheers George

And the snake eats itself.

As an old philosopher once said, only quote facts. 🤡