Check this out.

...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?

Contact enhancer. Like paying the spiritual advisor extra? Laying on of hands? Jordi tweaking the sensor array?

Hard to believe manufacturers don't upgrade their fuses. A bridge too far for me.

@jpwarren58 - a Trekkie huh?
Yeah, crazy talk no?

Except when you read from enough credible people that it starts to make you seriously question the notion.
Even I must admit, I understand the skepticism of those who have been in the spiked feet camp for decades, when they first read about isolating speakers on springs. Seems like nonsense too. Until you actually try it.

In primary school a science teacher showed the class mercury, I wanted to pick it up, but was told it was dangerous. I didn’t pick it up, but seriously had my doubts (even though I trusted my teacher), it looks like fun to play with.

All mains power entering the power supply, does so through the fuse, which is a protective device (or is required by law it to protect the building the device is wired to?), the current will pass through the wire into the connector, the fuse, the second connector and the wire into the bridge rectifier and smoothing capacitors etc. before being used as DC.

How can so many seemingly educated and well written audiophiles claim real world experience in the performance of such a small thing as a fuse? Even long time, industry leader’s electrical engineers have been shown to acknowledge that even the humble fuse can alter the final sound of a stereo system.

Or is it the concept of a fluid contact enhancer, that you’re objecting to?
Either way, many many Agon members have written in here about them, many with a great deal of knowledge and credibility, and so I’m not one to simply dismiss it so easily.