Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp

Have fun! 🙃

Lets not forget the biggest myth of all East coast, West coast, sound. LOL 😎

Mike

I’m really surprised to read atmasphere say that a fuse can’t have a preferred direction. That is also telling me you don’t look at the wire and how it’s pushed through the dies before soldering them in a preferred direction. Is that right? You don't care which direction the wire is soldered in? I do! 

Second if a Rectifier tube can have such a great affect on a valve amp, what makes people think a fuse, power cable, wall outlet won’t. Not only is there a difference in the sound, there is a reason why. The properties of two different end caps and the way the thermal filament is constructed along with how it was pushed through the dies. AND there is no direction?

Oh YES there is.

It’s simple AC moves in a direction towards the source, period. When it gets there it produces heat if it’s used and it’s moving in that direction because it is being used. The chicken or the egg. Heat is the result of use.. It’s certainly not hot to the tough at the receptacle is it? NO it’s hot where it’s working or producing heat.

You build amps I build cables and equipment. We even have direction on our inline DC fuses.. AC on the outside, DC on the inside.. That’s what is preached by most mechanics.

No direction? WOW! I thought that was figured out 30 years ago, from the 1800 old tech teaching. Things change. I’m actually reading the EE 2020 addition updates, Nano arcing and the quantum effects, Chip mortality # 1 killer, nano arcing and how alloy treatment prevents it. No bare hands anymore. The acid in your hand causes issues in the solder. Hand acids can actually etch a bearing face and cause a failure.

Most of the kooky, loopy stuff audiophile have been saying for 30 years is published reading for Electrical Engineers NOW to keep up.

I rewired two sets of Cary MB. Great result. I’ve seen 30-35 amps redone in our little group. Brian Cheney from VMPS was one. James B, did the work before they both passed in 2012. Cool tea for me.. I'm off work..

BTW another mechanic loaned me the book, we're both into stereo equipment. He's almost 70. Western Electric nutter. AC/DC speakers.

@atmasphere +1

Thank you for speaking truth to these myths that continue to be perpetuated by companies like Synergistic Research.  I don't know how people that own companies like that sleep at night.  Ted Denney and the My Pillow Guy are one in the same.