Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse?

A good example of why physiatrists consider audiophilia an obsessive compulsive neurosis...

This is what is wrong with our hobby: Con men are taking advantage of our irrational behavior.

"Voodoo dose work if you believe in it. But science works whether you believe in it or not."

Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse?

... not if you have more money than time, and lack preferable, alternate uses of the money

I met a guy who had a full set of SR Black fuses and they all blew at once on a power surge. He was buying some cheaper SR20 fuses from me, because he still wanted and believed in the SR fuses but could not bring himself to outlay that much again.

Imagine if this one blows.

The job of a fuse is to blow when needed to prevent damage to the gear. So your fuse $$$s may well go up in smoke as designed at some point.
Also fuses are delicate devices that age and wear over time and require replacement at some point to function properly. So often when one hears a difference replacing any fuse a with a new fuse b that is the most likely reason for hearing a difference. That and the fact that merely reseating an existing fuse can improve the contact and make a difference. Saw this all the time even on cheaper gear in years passed replacing fuses for customers at Radio Shack and Lafayette Radio. Replacing old fuses with new was a standard maintenance thing in that fuses typically are not expensive and easy to replace like a pair of worn windshield wipers on a car. 

no mapman, you miss the point...

the job of these fuses is to transform your system! make your bose 501’s sound like mbl 101’s in one fell swoop!!!!

:)