Geoff, You wrote, "I tend to discount oddball results like yours since no single test should be used to draw general conclusions."
This is such a puffball one-liner that I almost don't have the heart to start on it. First, "no single test should be used to draw general conclusions", UNLESS it is a single test that supports one's own pre-existing bias. Because such single-test reports are exactly what one has to go on when it comes to most tweaks. Second, where are your 70,000 counter-vailing reports? Is that how many boutique fuses you or the industry sold? If so, do you know that every purchaser came away convinced in favor of boutique fuses? My general impression reading this forum and the Tweaker's Asylum is that there is at best a 50-50 split on fuses. And of course the total of all reports in writing on forums is probably in the realm of a few hundred, pro and con taken together. So, where are your 70,000 reports stored? Third, if you were paying attention, I drew NO general conclusions. My report is simply an anecdote, has no statistical validity, except it does have unusual power in one respect: five (5) people were in the room, including me, and ALL FIVE of us heard it the same way. Like I wrote, two of the 5 guys (maybe 3, now I think of it) are very much professionals in the audio business, designers and one journalist. We were all surprised by the results, more because the circuit that was fused should not be affecting the audio at all. This certainly has me questioning my own bias against the importance of the fuse. Fourth, I kind of expected you to bring up "directionality". What is electrical evidence that fuses have directionality? Why would they have directionality when passing AC which is by nature bi-directional (has positive and negative phases alternating with regular frequency)?
This is such a puffball one-liner that I almost don't have the heart to start on it. First, "no single test should be used to draw general conclusions", UNLESS it is a single test that supports one's own pre-existing bias. Because such single-test reports are exactly what one has to go on when it comes to most tweaks. Second, where are your 70,000 counter-vailing reports? Is that how many boutique fuses you or the industry sold? If so, do you know that every purchaser came away convinced in favor of boutique fuses? My general impression reading this forum and the Tweaker's Asylum is that there is at best a 50-50 split on fuses. And of course the total of all reports in writing on forums is probably in the realm of a few hundred, pro and con taken together. So, where are your 70,000 reports stored? Third, if you were paying attention, I drew NO general conclusions. My report is simply an anecdote, has no statistical validity, except it does have unusual power in one respect: five (5) people were in the room, including me, and ALL FIVE of us heard it the same way. Like I wrote, two of the 5 guys (maybe 3, now I think of it) are very much professionals in the audio business, designers and one journalist. We were all surprised by the results, more because the circuit that was fused should not be affecting the audio at all. This certainly has me questioning my own bias against the importance of the fuse. Fourth, I kind of expected you to bring up "directionality". What is electrical evidence that fuses have directionality? Why would they have directionality when passing AC which is by nature bi-directional (has positive and negative phases alternating with regular frequency)?