PROTOTYPE FUSES - NEW THREAD

Please help me understand what is said here. I know folks have opinions both for and agains fuses. I get it. But does this imply there were fuses in the speakers? Were these powered speakers? 

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?

fbgbill ...

• "Kind of just says it all doesn’t it?"

Nope, sorry but it doesn’t say it all. The fuses were not used in speakers in either my system or my friend’s system. They are being used in electronics. In my case, the amp, line stage, and phono stage. The differences in using each brand of fuses are quite profound and can easily be heard.
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yoby ...

• The yellow is more detailed, but that’s not what really what I’m after in my system.

Exactly. Like you, I found the QSA Yellow fuse to be more detailed than the SR Orange fuse. It was impressive initially, but upon listening further it just didn’t have that "connection." It kind of reminded me of brewing a pot of coffee with really good coffee and then discovering that you miscounted and left a scoop out of the mix.

If one is into this hobby for HiFi artifacts, and sits with his/her friends and says ... "OK guys, get ready ... here comes the bass drum! Listen for it!" ... then perhaps the QSA Yellow fuse would be the way to go instead of the SR Orange fuse.

If, on the other hand, one is into the hobby for pure musical enjoyment then the SR Orange would be the choice.

If one wants to put Miles, Coltrane, and Adderly in the room in all of their musical splendor, then the new Prototype fuse is the one to have.
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jafant ...

• What happened to the 1st thread ?

There were way too many deleted threads written by our teenager in residence for the old thread to make any sense anymore. Hopefully, he’s been sent to his room for a time out and can behave in a more adult fashion in the future. :-)

Frank

PS: Guys, get that Kind of Blue album. It is amazing.

Sounds like a whole lot of placebo effect. No evidence that fuses make any impact on sound quality. 

elangley01 ...

"Sounds like a whole lot of placebo effect. No evidence that fuses make any impact on sound quality."

Other than listening for differences, and noting those differences, do you have another way to measure sound quality? Is there a meter that can be used to measure the tonal accuracy of instruments? Are there scientific instruments that can detect the three-dimensionality of a sound stage? Can the personalities and human artifacts presented by vocalists be measured in some way other than through listening? If you have a way of doing so, please post it. Thanks ... 

Placebo effect? Hardly.

Frank

elangley01

No evidence that fuses make any impact on sound quality.

There has actually been quite a bit of evidence regarding fuses and sound quality right in this very thread. You can’t make things like empirical evidence just disappear by pretending they don’t exist.

Observation is a fundamental part of the scientific method. Measurementalists here often shrink from it.