I believe that nearly everyone has an expectation for favorable results when frying a new audio product (or why buy it to begin ?). I’ve had to return products that didn’t impress me once in my system and get a refund. I’m sure this has been the case for others as well, not every purchase provides a positive sonic outcome.
My attitude toward upgrade fuses was to give them a try and and just listen. It worthwhile they stay and if not they go back and my money is returned. . A simple proposition. In my system they yielded an improvement in sound quality with 3 separate components. Furthermore reversing the fuse direction revealed a "better" sound quality in one direction compared to the other.
These were my results and I can’t speak to the experiences of others although many posters here have had very similar results. There are listeners who have or will try upgrade fuses and hear little or no difference in sound quality. One person’s outcome doesn’t invalidate another who has a dissimilar outcome. We can only report what we hear.
I can easily accept the opposing listening results of uberwaltz and wolf, they heard what they heard. I would never tell someone else what they hear with their own ears and system and declare it can’t be as they describe, far too presumptuous. Expectation bias can also be skewed toward a negative outcome if one is heavily doubtful (skeptical) as to the merits of the product in question, where their mind is already made up . In audio it always comes down to actually listening and then forming an opinion concerning a particular product.
Charles
My attitude toward upgrade fuses was to give them a try and and just listen. It worthwhile they stay and if not they go back and my money is returned. . A simple proposition. In my system they yielded an improvement in sound quality with 3 separate components. Furthermore reversing the fuse direction revealed a "better" sound quality in one direction compared to the other.
These were my results and I can’t speak to the experiences of others although many posters here have had very similar results. There are listeners who have or will try upgrade fuses and hear little or no difference in sound quality. One person’s outcome doesn’t invalidate another who has a dissimilar outcome. We can only report what we hear.
I can easily accept the opposing listening results of uberwaltz and wolf, they heard what they heard. I would never tell someone else what they hear with their own ears and system and declare it can’t be as they describe, far too presumptuous. Expectation bias can also be skewed toward a negative outcome if one is heavily doubtful (skeptical) as to the merits of the product in question, where their mind is already made up . In audio it always comes down to actually listening and then forming an opinion concerning a particular product.
Charles