Same for speakers and low current draw dacs....right?? Tom
The guru on fuses:
For two years, I have asked why and how fuses could possibly matter. All I got was arguments of faith, pro or con. I needed a real audio guru who actually knows. Here is a link from John Curl’s discussion on Parasound’s website. He engineered and designed some some great equipment, including some Mark Levinson gear, The Grateful Dead’s 30 plus McIntosh amp powered Wall of Sound, and his admittedly, somewhat price compromised Parasound designs. He discusses the electrical properties of standard fuses, showing how they are compromised. The entire article is quite enlightening, but to skip to the fuse section, go to the bottom half of page 6. https://www.parasound.com/pdfs/JCinterview.pdf
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audio2design1,015 posts02-12-2021 5:27pmWhy oldhvy because for all the bs about an amp just modulating the power supply, the reality is what makes for a stable supply and the properties assigned to audiophile fuses are not the same. It’s all a smoke screen of ignorance. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A fuse that increases in resistance as it heats up (more current) would make for a more stable supply voltage. Yet people go gaga over low resistance. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I just like the way it sound, nothing to do with anything, Scientific. LOL Mercy That last part of your statement, lends it’s self to a previous comment about a twisty flat 99.99 copper flat ribbon, with .0X increase per meter resistance. It is not just R, C, and end load, is it? That silly little filament, yea buy the cheap one, by all means Recycled German cars make better fuses than recycled Korean cars.. That’s all I’m saying.. :-) I’ll stick with my 6-30.00 fuses and my FREE SR fuses.. YES I use Busman where it sounds no different. I sure would have liked to work with some of you fellas’. I personally like breakers, or bypass the fuse all together in stereo gear, or speakers (they always go, speaker fuses) I’ve NEVER had a problem. BUT I've had GREAT success with speakers and shi$s fuses in the path. Infinitys ALL OF THEM. I've owned LOT of them. YET I did a speaker cable drop that blew up all kinds of stuff. The 20 amp main breaker blew, but not the 5 amp slow blow in the VTL or the Mac 275. The stupid class d, never missed a beat. Two months after that, the Mac C2500 Pre lost a right channel. A cable drop... The ONLY one I’ve ever had, 15K if I would have just replaced the components. The busman did not blow...in ANY of the pieces, all failed. SAFTY??? 3 right channels!! That is the exact reason I tried SR fuses, I though what the heck, I was using ACME, and Tuners. They sounded better in my (Samra) C20. I used a FREE SR FUSE.. LOL BTW want to buy a pair of 300 Deluxe VTLs, perfect except the signal caps are burnt off circuit board.. Busman fuses, ay? Safety? Nothing safe about them as far a equipment. Especially slow blows. Friggin’ junk. Mechanic NEVER use them EVER... Breakers ONLY, or standard fuses, some fast blows.. (Computer fuses). Like I’ve always said, "Stereo equipment is NOT rocket science", it is really kind of simple, compared to a modern day piece of equipment. EVEN a friggn lawn mower is more sophisticated by design.. WAY MORE or mower. LOL Regards |
Fuses feed into 10s or more feet of wire in a transformer and high inductance. Conveniently forgotten.So do power cords and anyone with a working set of ears can hear the differences they make. All this wire after the fuse is just another variation on the old, all those miles of wire before it gets to your outlet BS: another red herring. All the best, Nonoise |
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