NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

Now I know why electronic music drenched in artificial digital reverb is so popular around these parts. 

Frank

Ho yeah! it's time

cerberus79
A few months ago I purchased a used pair of speakers from another Agon member.
To my surprise all the fuses were Orange fuses. I listened to them and then to satisfy my curiosity I replaced them with ordinary buss fuses and could not hear a difference.
I did this test with a bunch of friends and neither I or them could hear a difference. Kind of just says it all doesn't it?

To those non technical thinking of purchasing these $$$ fuses. Just save your $150+ and do this instead.

A fuse:
1: two end caps
2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).

To those "non technical" members that are interested in "maybe" wasting their money, do not listen to the non-technical, listen to the technicians of this industry that design the audio products you have and listen to. AND YOU WON"T SEE THEM ON THREADS LIKE THIS AGREEING WITH WHAT SAID HERE ABOUT THE SOUND IMPROVMENT DETAILS AND AC FUSE PLACEMENT DIRECTION, EVER!!!
Just clean and tighten your fuse holder and re-new your fuse (if old) with a good quality 50cent Bussman, Littlefuse or similar.As with "many switch-on surges" they do deteriorate, bend, stretch and get crusty with electrolysis formations on their fusible wire elements before they give out, as these pics show of a fuse wire element ageing over time show. https://ibb.co/9NbTwqK (even the $$$ boutique ones will age just as much also)

Cheers George

With a full complement of the prototype fuses in use now, the system is sounding better than ever. It is hard to believe that a home stereo in an average-sized living room could perform like this. It is truly mind-boggling.

Mister Golden Ears is scheduled to arrive at nine in the morning for a listening session. He knows the system almost as well as I do. We'll see what he has to say. Plus, at some point, we will be replacing two of the prototype fuses with the QSA Yellow fuses to compare.

By the way, I haven't told Mister Golden Ears anything about the prototype fuses. As far as he knows, the system is still outfitted with a full complement of SR Orange fuses.

 The last time he was over, I was just breaking in the first QSA Yellow fuse in the line stage. He heard the abnormalities in the midrange too, so we swapped out the fuse with the SR Orange fuse that was previously in the line stage ... and the music came back into focus like before. And yes, I did try the QSA Yellow fuse in both directions, so that wasn't the problem.

Stay tuned ... 

Frank

Mr Golden Ears, distant cousin to Gold Finger?

Are YOU in Oregon?

Florence