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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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morestereostuff
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In order to believe in high end fuses you might first have to believe that blind testing is not essential. As a long term audiophile and an electrical engineer my experience is that either I can hear what is happening in a blind test or else I can't hear it at all. There is a reason that folks used to believe in various snake oil health products and I think it is the same reason folks believe in expensive fuses. 
The other thing, in the article it made it sound as if measuring-recording-analyzing transients (fuse resistance change in this example) was difficult. It is easy. 
luisma31
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For the record if the last 2 comments @brubin and @morestereostuff are addressing my former comment I personally don't believe too much because I tried them and could not say there was a difference, sounded the same.But my equipment is "difficult" reacting to changesMy take is it was well engineered to avoid changes from external factors line emissions, cables, and such
audio2design
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The other thing, in the article it made it sound as if measuring-recording-analyzing transients (fuse resistance change in this example) was difficult. It is easy.



It is only difficult to people who don't know how .... which are people making those statement. Not a coincidence.

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cakyol
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Anyone who thinks a fuse changes the sound, suffers an inferiority complex, which manifests itself in them feeling superior to everyone else thinking they hear differences.

That is the nature of psychological delusions. To them, it is real. They really ’hear’ it. The effect of delusion is very powerful..

But alas, to the rest of the people who live in the real world objectively, there is no difference. They do not have to prove their superiority by pretending they hear things nobody else is capable of hearing.

oldhvymec
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Anyone who thinks a fuse changes the sound, suffers an inferiority complex, which manifests itself in them feeling superior to everyone else thinking they hear differences.

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I don’t suffer from it, and would appreciate YOU stop the name callin’
you deaf prick? I hear a difference.. You need to learn some manners..
You’ll find anyone callin names around me, it won’t fly...
I don’t give a shi$ who cares, or who you think you are...

I’ll ask you once... Then from the Eeyore 6 to the ash can.. I'll have nothing to do with you.. Your call.

No regards
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