PROTOTYPE FUSES - NEW THREAD

Can anyone explain how fuses affect audio quality?

They don't, unless they are like what below in the link.

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

My system has transformed over the years.
Age affords upgrades (modestly done).
Internet aids research and discussion.

The icing on the cake has to be power cables, interconnects, power supplies, USB/SPIDF converters, grounding boxes, fuses, isolation pads.

My ears are the tools.
My pleasure is the measurement.

Objective listening impressions are not scientific.

Empirical observation is the basis for scientific learning. Instruments have to be constantly calibrated. The combination of man’s sense plus his (or her) brain is one of the most powerful measuring devices on the planet.


millercarbon, be (play) nice...☺

I tried a QSA light blue two weeks ago mainly because of what I heard on these boards. I was amazed at the improvement it made to my system. I expected it could perhaps make a slight change, but it turned out to be very noticeable. So much so that I am upgrading all my fuses and my heightened interest in Franks threads.

If fuses made no difference in my system I would say so. I have no skin in the game and I paid full retail.

I can understand why somebody would be skeptical and refrain from trying audiophile fuses, but I am perplexed as to why anyone would feel compelled to claim they do not work when they have not even tried them?