What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed

Mapman wrote,

"Would I hear a fuse orientation change? Maybe first time at best (some of my fuses have never been touched since, well, forever), but I am skeptical about that even, and would be even more uncertain from there I suspect, therefore I will save myself the pain and uncertainty and just enjoy the good music until it stops being that and I have to figure out whats wrong now once again."

The Age of Uncertainty. And Pain. :-)

I find it absolutely makes a difference which direction a penny is inserted behind the 20 amp fuse in my fuse box. And wheats have a fuller, more rounded quality just like live - probably something to do with grain structure. Going to try a cryo’d dime next to see if silver really does sound more airy.

Mapman & Onhwy61, thanks very much for your kind comments. Let me say also that I always enjoy reading your invariably intelligent and level-headed posts.

Best regards,
-- Al

So so I'm still waiting for someone to expand the scientific and engineering knowledge base and offer up any advise or theory to help answer the original OPs question.

If the answer is that there is no answer other than trial and error, I'm fine with that. Maybe the mysteries of HiFI tuning fuses will be answered by science someday.

Or even better, if the vendor could provide the answer, that would make it pretty easy for anyone concerned to validate it or not.

Alternatively, there is a lot to be said for the old motto "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". There is always something out there worthy of one's attention at any given time. Fuse direction probably ranks pretty low on teh grand scale of things I would wager, even when one is easily affected by "audiophilia".

And what if the expanded scientific and engineering knowledge base maintains that there is no directional difference? At what point, if at all, would you (we) accept that any perceived differences are imaginary?

Hardline subjectivists seem to maintain that if there is no scientific explanation for perceived phenomena, it just hasn't been found yet. It's intellectually sloppy to not balance that perspective with the possibility that the perceived phenomenon may be bogus, don't you think?