What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed

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?

Mapman, if I can be so bold can I suggest you do your due diligence? While we've undoubtedly covered this before somewhere ( I can see you wracking your brain) I suspect you might get some of the answers you seek by going to the HiFi Tuning web site and taking a gander at the technical data sheets that show, among other things, differences in resistance according to direction of fuse, differences in resistance according to fuse conductor and end cap metal type, differences in resistance according to cryo and non-cryo treatment. Things of that nature.

When someone says a thing is almost impossible what that actually means is that it is possible. - Old audiophile saying

Item number 2 in my Get Rich Quick scheme: A unidirectional fuse! That's right...along with my previously mentioned "Deconfuser" testing apparatus, I plan to market a fuse to the confused that can be used in either direction with less chance for fuse abusing. I'll put little arrows on 'em going in BOTH directions declaring once and for all that bi-directional fuse useage can unconfuse users, leading to peace and harmony for all.