Check this out.

The Gustard fuse with the Arctic MX-5 heatsink compound is DEAD SILENT. It has a very calm acoustic pattern, and has gobs of resolution, voices sound extremely convincing.

I have tried bypassing my fuses altogether, temporarily with copper foil, and these moddded ones sound very close to a bypass. I don’t think I am missing much, but then again a breaker is something I’d like to try out for sure.

The timbre/tonality of the fuse is dependent on the outside cap more than anything else, and there is room to play on that front.

Thanks I have a few pieces I'm very careful with. All the tube stuff and preamps. I just make sure the fuse circuit is sound. I don't cut corners on any of the vintage or a couple of my Carys. I have to much time getting it the way I like. I used SR in three of 5 places in a V12R. They made zero difference before the power supply. Weird thing was the power cable did.. No idea, the wife even said no difference. She can really hear.. 

Time to pick up a few..

...boy, cut a fuse in 1/2 around here and some other sort of fuse goes

-poof-

@mahgister +10  ...enough said. ;)

@rixthetrick ...oblated sphere, with bad acne and heavy drool....why the aliens only pause and look around....😐  And gooey under it all....*eww*

@yuviarora ....nice DIY, and your post just got copied.  👍 Thank you, and do more of that. ;)

@oldhvymec No, my DIY fuses are modded. I took the silica and nano copper out of the fuses, and refilled them with  Arctic MX-5 heatsink paste. 

Resealed the fuses with epoxy glue. 

Stock Gustard is a good fuse, but after the treatments, it plays on a different level. 

This is a previous post of mine :

I use this fuse.

Took copper caps from a cheaper fuse, took the ones on this off, refilled cylinder with carbon based Heatsink paste (Arctic mx-5), put new endcaps back on with epoxy glue. 

The cheaper fuse I sourced for parts is the Aucharm fuse from aliexpress, goes for about $2. 

 

Resolution and distortion are miles ahead of the stock Gustard fuse

The timbre/tonality of the fuse is dependent on the outside cap more than anything else, and there is room to play on that front.

While I was up at MC audiophile weekend in Washington he applied some contact enhancer on the pins of the valves for a valve amp, I forget the brand.
@danager - do you recall the brand of valve amp the other guy brought over?

Anyway, with the comment yuviarora made about the material in the caps on the ends, and many Agon members having purchased contact enhancers like NPS-1260 Contact Enhancer, has anyone in the forum tried it on fuses?