We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses


LOL, I'll bet I gotcha on that Title! ;)  BTW, I put this thread under "Tech Talk" category as it involves the system physically, not tangentially. 

More seriously, two question survey:

1. Do you think designer fuses are A) a Gift to audiophiles, or B) Snake Oil 

2. Have you ever tried them?  Yes or No

In the tradition of such questions on Agon, I'll weigh in as we go along... 
Feel free to discuss and rant all you wish, but I would like to see clear answers to the questions. :) 
douglas_schroeder
A "body of evidence" is in no way developed by amplifying the number of people suffering the delusion
What a ridiculous thing to say: thousands of people suffering some form of mass delusion. What's next? False flag scenarios? Pizzagate morphing into Audiogate?
And what exactly is "empirical perception"? That's a concept so fundamentally flawed in premise it should be obvious. 
A concept so fundamentally flawed that we do it all the time in our waking lives. 
Because you think you perceived something it must be manifest in outside world? 
Duh...yes. Or is it the shadow cast on the wall of the cave by the fire?
Where do I even begin with how wrong that assumption is?
Please don't. You're giving me a headache.
Go back and forth with George. He's more your style.

All the best,
Nonoise
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And, here, we, go. 
kosst thinks he's Merleau-Ponty, in the flesh, to dole it out with a pleb.
You've read up on phenomenology, empiricism, gestalt and association,
levels of perception and the like, and that is how you argue the efficacy of fuses?

You've a troubled mind dear kosst and when getting no where in an argument on fuses, you resort to this? Spare me your brilliance and expertise in a field apart from audio. Are you the kind of person when someone says "it's the truth", respond with something lame like, what is truth, really?

All the best,
Nonoise
kosst - I was an attorney (Southwestern 79') and for 32 years, a commercial real estate appraiser.  I had to extract from the collected data an opinion of value or utility of the property (highest and best use).  I consider my former profession to be a blend of science and art (as does the national Foundation for Real Estate Appraisal).  One can be a great collector of data and have an inability to extract the results without both education and a artful skill. 
I consider audio reproduction the same way. 

Especially, Synergistic Research products.  My SR audio provider and the two engineers at SR who I converse with unequivocally state that some of their products require an "artful" posititioning to achieve a beneficial audio effect.  These include their room treatments in particular. 

As to SR duplexes and fuses, installed correctly, they are quite obvious in their audio reproduction benefit.  As one schooled in empirical thought, I find that SR duplexes and fuses are obviously superior to standard (low cost and typical) duplexes and fuses used for any and all electrical functioning purposes they are manufactured for.  I also greatly benefit from the SR HFT products allowing me relieve my walls of all sorts of absorption and diffusion paneling.  

The most obvious reason why the SR fuse is superior (or a circuit breaker) to a standard cheap fuse is that they conduct electricity better through a larger surface area (and possibly due to better/efficient contact materials).  The circuit breaker in my friends amp certainly has a larger conductor than the standard 5 amp fuse.  It sounds superior to the cheap fuse and sounds about the same as an SR blue fuse.  
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