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aftermarket fuse location

any thoughts/experience with the RELATIVE merits of upgrading fuses that lie in the powersupply path vs in the signal path, itself?  forgive me for applying "logic", as I know to trust ones ears, but it would make more sense that a fuse in the signal path would have more affect than a fuse on the incoming AC, acknowledging that AC powercords do, indeed, matter.....just interested in others experience
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jw944ts OP
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your responses and interest is appreciated, thank you.....AGAIN, I was looking for not theoretical but subjective observations as to which fuses seem to make greater/lesser change in sound.....
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millercarbon
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Far as I can tell, QSA greater. Others lesser.
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jw944ts OP
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MC, you have lost track of the question 
oldhvymec
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OP In your Pass is there a fuse on the other side of the power supply?

Pass is one of those amps. It has such a great power supply, not a lot of room for improvement. Krell and Ampzila, Threshold, huge PS and TO ME the AC fuse and the PC other than being big enough, didn't make that big of a difference.. Ampzila the PC was cold welded in..

The +  side of the rail for sure. Threshold had 2 fuses one on both + rails of the amp. I used gold plated Acme back then.. There was no SR that I knew of..

A lot of speakers had inline fuses too. I bypassed all the mid driver fuses in Infinity and  Acme fuses for the highs.. 1990s. I still have one set of Infinities set up that way.. RSIIbs.

Fuses count especially in the sound path or after the Power supply..

My Mac preamps have a few inside the MX series. Inside yes, the AC fuse no.. Cary is the same way.. The PC on the Cary makes a huge difference but the AC fuse didn't..  After the PS it sure did though. That is a weird one.. ALL SR fuses though..

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