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

@twoleftears

Color makes a huge different. Black are $28.50; Red/Black are $2844.00.

is this like at the track, where white porsche gt3’s are a lil faster than other color gt3’s?

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Price reduced to $28.50 folks!

So is this a $28 fuse that was listed for $2844 or vice versa?   Pretty important to know wouldn't you say?   It can't be nearly as good if only $28.50, lol!

, if one inch of hair thin cheap wire does not degrade sound quality then why waste money on good wire anywhere?

cheap has nothing to do with it, that is hyperbole for dramatic effect

in order for it to work the fuse has to have a certain amount of resistance. The energy flowing through it would not heat it up if it did not so it would never blow. So any fuse is going to consist of a "thin wire" of some length. Unequivocally stating that this will degrade the sound might seem like a logical conclusion, but without some kind of proof it is a mere guess.

And the speaker cable analogy makes no sense and is irrelevant because what is a small amount of resistance in an inch of wire would be too much  resistance in many feet of the same wire

There are no nano powders or components that could go into that fuse to make it cost even a fraction of that price to make.When you look at things usually used in higher end fuses like silver wire (cost negligible in something as small as a fuse), silver caps (again not that expensive here as they are tiny and thin), then somewhat common passive materials used for a/v products like piezoelectric crystals (quartz, rochelle salt, etc. all inexpensive all easy to find), and tourmaline (inexpensive and plentiful), then on to more exotic materials like graphene, graphene based carbon nano-tubes, ceramic powders, rare earth powders, ferroelectric material powders, perovskites, cathode powders, etc.; all the interesting materials that may have an effect, none would be able to fill a fuse and end up costing anything more than $300 for the more rare materials (like say Barium Strontium Titanate or Lanthanum Strontium Cobaltite, both of which wouldn't end up costing that much for the amount to fill a fuse).
From the pictures the fuses looks like they have a glass body and only have a wire on the inside though so I'm assuming all the extra material is in the wraps (which I believe is similarly the case for Telos Audio's fuses, I know Acme Audio Labs use their Crystal Fiber Compound on the outside of their fuses, but those are only $20), there is no real possibility that the wrap contains hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of materials.

I'm not saying the fuses aren't excellent, but there seems to be unprecedented levels of markup going on here.
I know I've paid for tweaks that have components that have materials in them that cost only a fraction of what they sell for and aren't exactly labor intensive (not that that is the totality of the price since one has to consider r&d), but I've never owned anything that has a markup like this seems to.

This all goes for the outlets as well. There are outlets out there that use pure silver contacts that cost a fraction of these.

Maybe the exorbitant price of their super high end stuff is just skilled marketing to get people like us to talk about the fuses and outlets and get their name out there to sell enough of their $28 fuse which may be where the real money is made?