tommylion,
I don't have an inclination to try the fuses. Which, again, is not to say they don't work or wouldn't produce an audible change in my system.
My motivation for posting in the thread is, well, just having an interest in high end audio and having opinions of my own :-) And those opinions, like many other audiophiles, are relevant to a wide range of subjects in high end audio.
My interest was piqued just by the heading of this thread. I then read what seemed to be an epitome of the type of ravings that make many critics (rightly so I believe) roll their eyes at audiophiles. Huge, over the top claims for the sonic difference in...fuses...which are to say the least highly dubious.
For instance "I’ve seemed to gain about an octave in low bass response."
Is there a technical reason why anyone should expect another octive of bass response from an audiophile fuse? Not that I'm aware of. But if there IS, it should obviously come from some measurable parameter that would identify such behavior. (And of course an octave of bass extension would be easily measurable in in-room response0. But I don't see any such evidence being presented. So what we have, very typical in the area of tweaks, claims for Big Obvious sonic alterations in the sound, with little to no evidence in support of the claim beyond someone's subjective feeling that's what he heard. And when this is pointed out, we tend to get versions of "you can't measure what I'm hearing."
And this is precisely the type of "evidence" used for every crackpot claim out there, from energy healing therapies, to astrology, psychics and every new age nostrum.
Does it mean fuses don't or can't alter the sound? Again: no. But the NATURE of the claims and the type of "evidence" audiophiles like Frank rely on are, I think, rightly objects of skepticism.
So in my case, I count myself as an audiophile. I love high end audio equipment, have owned a lot of it over the years, and obsess about little changes like every other audiophile. But I'm also concerned with the nature of knowledge, rationality, empiricism etc (my philosophy-luvin' side) and the claims made in high end audio intersect with these concerns all the time.