Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please

“AND PLEASE, THERE'S NO NEED TO COMMENT ON HOW FOOLISH IT IS TO BYPASS THE FUSE WITH SLUGS-----WE ALREADY KNOW---YOU'VE TOLD US EXHAUSTIVELY.”

@lcherepkai WOW! No matter how bold or nice you ask the critics can’t help themselves. I use copper slugs on selected components without issue.  Can you explain the sonic differences of silver compared to copper slugs?  And, where do you buy your 5mm Titanium rods? Thanks

Thank you carlsbad2 and tksteingraber for not being alarmists.   I purchased the titanium rod when I bought my copper rod from McMaster-Carr, both for under $20 shipped and only another $30 for the machine shop to cut them down to 20mm lengths.  This has been, by a huge margin, the biggest bang-for-the-buck audio improvement I've ever made.  

It had been a while since I'd had the copper slugs in the system since the silver and titaniums are much more suited to my listening preference, so I just spent a couple hours going back and forth with either in my Bel Canto DAC 2.8.  I presently have a titanium in the Bel Canto CDT-3 transport and a silver in the Red Dragon S-500.  I would have swapped these around to, but both are in the back of the components and take a bit of digging to remove the fuse tray so my apologies for only swapping out the DAC slugs.  

As would be expected, the copper has a warmer or fuller sound.  This does come at the expense of inner detail but does smooth out some occasional brightness.  Where I particularly notice the loss of inner detail is in decays as the copper sounds positively truncated in this regard.  The silver is more open on top and there is a greater sense of the area around the instruments.  The copper sounds a bit dumbed down.  The copper also throws slightly but noticeably larger images while the silver has more precisely drawn and palpable images.  If you like warm and fuzzy, then the copper is your slug but for me, there is no comparison, and I just can't have the coppers in knowing how much better it would sound with silver or titanium in there instead.  

And for all the others, once again just NEEDING to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for bypassing the fuses to use slugs,  let me ask you this, which do you think is more dangerous and likely to actually cause harm; listening to my stereo without fuses to protect the components, all plugged into an Equi-Core 1800 with its circuit breaker ready to kick out in things get too hinky or getting in your car and going for a drive?  If we go back the 35 years I've been driving, I've been in 5 minor accidents and 2 of those were due to deer (natures stupidest creature).  During that same time, I think I've blown 3 fuses, 2 of those in a big SET tube amp which I would never consider using slugs with.  The other was in an early Threshold Stasis 2 amp, which was over 20 yrs old when I got it. 

I'm not terribly concerned about going for a drive.  I've been doing deliveries for the last 20+ yrs.  I'm even less concerned about using my stereo sans fuses.  But thanks for the concern

So many know-it-alls in this forum! You know who you are! This really gets tiring here! He specifically asked people to not criticize about the risks since he knows what they are! Some people just can't resist and IMHO these people are holding back other people posting to these forums! If you have nothing beneficial to say, then why not just keep quiet! We aren't children and these are all opinions. Not many things in this hobby are set in stone and most things are opinions! 

More power to you and your ears but I used copper slugs in my Magnepan 20.7s, and PS Audio BHK preamp and BHK 300 monoblocks and heard no difference.