NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

Should you upgrade the fuse in a power conditioner?  I have an AQ Niagra 1200.  I would think the fuse that comes with a conditioner would be high quality.  No?

It has been so long I can no longer remember who it was but back in grade school there was this kid who got so petulant at losing he took all his toys and went home. This always puzzled me. Why did he think anyone wanted to play with him in the first place?

I majored in business with a minor in risk management and insurance. Erisch is of course correct.

Meanwhile-

Improvement over improvement over improvement over improvement over.... One begins to wonder where the system started out from to allow for so much....

Doesn’t matter. The fact of the matter is the very best anyone can do today is still laughably far from replicating reality. When we gush about how something is so much better, more real and lifelike and whatnot, this all stems from a love of music. Only when we really love something, deep and strong, does anyone care when it is made a little bit better. For those of us who care any improvement however small is important and worth the effort.

Of course we know not everyone does care. Plenty of people studiously maintain an air of impartial aloofness making a show of not caring while at the same time calling themselves audiophiles. It is sad, and we do feel sorry for you. But it would help a lot if since you really don’t care you would be consistent and not care enough to be rubbing your not care in our faces all the time. Go not care somewhere else. Leave the listening to those of us who do.

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

twoleftears ...

4,300 posts "Improvement over improvement over improvement over improvement over.... One begins to wonder where the system started out from to allow for so much...."

For me, the trip down the stereo road all started out with a Nikko receiver, a Micro Seiki turntable, and a pair of Sonab 400 speakers way back in, I think, 1972. I thought it was great. Then, I discovered tubes. It has been a quest for better sound ever since.

Millercarbon ...

You are exactly correct. It is all about the love of music. I remember as a little kid back in the early 1940s during WWII ... I must have been only three or four years old. My parents hung out at the beach a lot. There was a dance hall right there on the boardwalk. I used to wander off and sit right at the front door and listen to music. Little did I know at the time that I was listening to some of the best big bands of the era. Orchestras like Tommy Dorsey, Glen Gray, and Glenn Miller come to mind.

I’ve carried the love of music with me all of my life. I’ve traveled through the Doo Wop and Rythem and Blues era. Through the BeBop jazz era. Through the Big Bill Broonzy blues era. I protested the Elvis and Beatles era and refused to listen to them because I believed they were making a fortune off of the backs of the great Black artists who came before them. Then, I settled in on West Coast jazz with the likes of Brubeck, Tjader, and Howard Rumsey’s Light House All-Stars. Then, other music-loving friends introduced me to classical music and opera. I wonder how many posters here own any Rita Streich albums, let alone ever heard of her?

So, that brings me around to my present-day stereo system, and all of the tweaks done to it. The only reason ... and I mean the ONLY reason I go through all of this is to GET ME CLOSER TO THE MUSIC, THE ARTISTS PLAYING IT, AND THE INSTRUMENTS THEY ARE USING TO PLAY IT.

At this point, I have collected well over 5000 LPs and several thousand CDs.

It is an incremental journey for sure, but some of the latest innovations like these new fuses ... and other things I cannot talk about in public, have worked to get me there in giant steps. Kudos to the designers for allowing that to happen.

Mega Kudos to the sweet lady in New Hampshire.

Frank