McIntosh fuse changeout to make better sound

Now explain why every time my audiophile buddies over the years have claimed some amazing improvements from fuses, when I forced them to listen blind, those amazing improvements disappear. I do make sure to clean the fuse contact first to remove that variable.

Yes, confirmation bias is a thing and it’s proven every time someone says fuses can’t, and won’t, make a difference. They believe it so deeply that when they listen, they don’t hear any differences or write off any as of no consequence.

I did read your first comment and, sorry to hear that you couldn't hear an immediate difference. I did. Granted, with some changes I've had to wait for certain moments in music to verify what I believed all along, but it was always apparent on first listen that something was amiss, either for the worse, or the better.

The only time I couldn't, was when swapping out fuses on my Kinki EX-M1 integrated. Everything was more of a sideways move and in the end, I stuck with the stock fuse (which was anything but stock: it was a well made, high rupturing fuse that cost about $2.00, but much better made than the usual dreck out there).

All the best,
Nonoise

So, Nonoise,
I was thinking your detractors seem to think; browbeating you into submission, will effectively change your mind?
I would suggest they piss. Into the wind, instead. That way, they would: get to know; how that really smells...do you concur?

Wow, hotroady, way to behave like an a-- so easily. If people can't handle disagreement of opinion without behaving like an angry child (which you just behaved like), then perhaps the Internet is not for them.

All this reminds me of how my grandfather told me the way people get freckles. They spit chewing tobacco out the window of a moving car.

That, and I think I'm too old to be browbeaten any more. Too set in my ways, nowadays.

All the best,
Nonoise