The secret to a great amplifier...

and trust your own senses

That is the same argument that people who believe the earth is flat use.

What is amazing is with all the evidence showing how easy it is to fool our senses, that people still insist they are special, and that quoting the internet somehow makes them an expert.


We know without a shred of doubt that visual stimulus can impact our audible perception, and our taste perception even our emotional perception. Why insist this is not true. You can't claim to be a person of science on one hand, then conveniently reject the science that does not agree with what you want to believe (and accuse other people of Dunning Kruger).


First red (or was that black), then black, then blue, then orange, and all age somehow "so much better" than the one before. It begs the question, was your system so awful to start that successive generations of fuse upgrades made a huge difference? Call me skeptical.


I wonder why these fuses blow more often than other fuses?

jaybe665 posts10-09-2019 7:43amI find SR fuses to blow much more easily than a normal fuse with the same rating. After this happening a few times with the Blues I took the advise of Alfred at High End Electronics and bought a slightly higher rating fuse but it too eventually blew. Two pieces of highly regarded equipment this happened with that otherwise have no problems.

"You can't claim to be a person of science on one hand, then conveniently reject the science that does not agree with what you want to believe (and accuse other people of Dunning Kruger)."         As I stated earlier;   "A modicum of Wave-Particle Duality and QED study, can open one's eyes to the POSSIBLITIES, surrounding what's happening with conductors, dielectrics, and our voltages/signals."     None of it (modern Physics) supports AC pushing electrons through a wire.      Of course; that's was what being taught as, "Science" (regarding electricity) by the Engineering Dept, while the Physics Dept was teaching voltage/signal wave propagation, at Case.     That was the Sixties.    QED was still young and related in lectures.        No one that can prove via, "Science" that changing a fuse can't make a audible difference, or: vice versa.        All anyone has, at present, is Electrical THEORY.       Again; theories don't prove anything, but: I choose to put my confidence in the latest (I like to keep up).           I'm not on this forum, to impress or convince anyone, of anything, by winning some kind of educational or semantic, Urinational Olympics.      Only: to encourage those, so disposed as to experiment for themselves and confident in their systems and faculties (their own minds, GASP), to do so.        That the variables are manifold should be obvious, to most anyone.      As should: the propensity of some, to constantly change subjects.       I'm of the opinion: pleasing one's own ears, is ALL that matters.

And again,  you are just making things up using terms you don't understand very well, while eschewing the one form of science that would deliver a proper and somewhat repeatable result, proper testing, with our ears, and not our eyes.

No, you are of the opinion pleasing ones eyes, which can fool the brain (for a period of time) that the ears are happy, but the ears are not actually happy, a higher level decision was made to say "we are happy". However, as it was not a real change, it does not last.  It is like a pretty car with bad handling. You come out and look at the car and go, "oh its so pretty", and you forget about the bad handling ... till you are 20 minutes into the drive.

"A modicum of Wave-Particle Duality and QED study, can open one's eyes to the POSSIBLITIES, surrounding what's happening with conductors, dielectrics, and our voltages/signals." - This is just subterfuge and completely meaningless. We can measure bulk effects with great accuracy. You don't have to understand everything that happens at a low level to understand the macro effects. If there is no "why" then the how is quite meaningless.  Bringing up particle/wave duality and quantum mechanics to try justifying that a fuse may be important is called clutching at straws. If you can't measure a sufficient bulk effect, than the underlying physics does not matter.

I will make a leap and guess that you don't even really understand how a fuse behaves at a bulk level in a power supply circuit, yet you want to start talking low level physics?

"If you can’t measure......"      That’s been, "science’s" failing, throughout it’s history and- always my point.      ie: Knowing how or what to measure.      If you had the slightest background (or- genuine interest) in the subject, you’d understand.      With no foundation/higher education in Physics  (obviously), you can’t begin to grasp anything (the, "possibilities") to which I refer.     Hence; your posts are full of uneducated, "leaps" (assumptions) and any responses (on my part) are a waste of keystrokes.

Anyone interested in whether installing a better fuse (whether high-Dollar, "audiophile", or- simply a better constructed one, as mentioned by some), can make a difference in your system’s presentation: just TRY them, for yourselves, as did this thread’s OP.      The Naysayer Church HATES it, when THAT happens!            Whatever the rationale; if it sounds better TO YOU, it will have been worth the effort.