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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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nonoise
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Because BS must be stamped out at all costs in this industry, to keep this hobby honest.
And you and your ilk are the self appointed crusaders. In other words, you and your kind are nothing more than run of the mill fanatics, who get aroused by posting such nonsense.

Do you self mutilate like the crusaders of old, after getting aroused?

All the best,
Nonoise


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I have no idea whether fuses matter or not.  But Ayre instructed me to remove my fuses when I told them I bought a used VX-5 Twenty amp and it came with HiFi Tuning Gold fuses.  He (not going to mention his name) said you'd be amazed at how many 'audiophile' fuses are poorly manufactured and as such, set their unit into fault mode (which in my case, he was right).  All tested fine with my meter but nevertheless, the Ayre didn't like them.  A month or two later, I had to send the amp in to them to have new caps installed (maybe unrelated, maybe not) and they put in clear generic (and I assume cheap) fuses.  Surprised they weren't even ceramic.  The amp sounds amazing so I'll just say ignorance is bliss in my case.  No thanks on trying those things again.
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funny how there’s so much dogged support and descriptions of sound on these $150+ fuses from members who only have a few posts?????
LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.
 
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nonoise
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LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.
Like I said, a fanatic.
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georgehifi
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LIKE I SAID THIS BS MUST BE STAMPED OUT AT ALL COST.

Like I said, a fanatic.
So true.
Like I've said many many times.
Just get SR to come on here to these pages to back up your snake oil voodoo BS about these AC mains fuses on what they do for the sound and their directionality difference in sound quality.
I think that's fair, as any audio manufacture would be only too pleased to back their product here if true.
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