What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed

***Time to find some other dumb topic to waste time with***

Dumb? Hardly. This thread is discussing the essence of high-end audio.

This particular thread happens to be about hearing fuses, but it could have just as easily been about ICs or PCs or cable lifters or green magic markers etc ... .

These things are what seperates high-end audio from Normal Audio Enthusiasts and Music Lovers.

If you think this is Dumb, then in effect, you think high-end audio and audiophiles are dumb.

In for a penny, in for a pound. You cannot pick and choose.

If you are, jumping ship, I understand Yorx is having a blow-out sale on certain models. Better hurry.

Cheers

Tbg, no.

Only when challenged by those who have no standing in the matter as to why they bought that wine, car or chose who to marry.

I have no dog in this fight as to whether or not electrons flow in both directions. Never took that side. It doesn't matter one lick. It's just smoke. If I hear a difference, I hear a difference. That's not to say I can hear one when changing the direction of a fuse as I've never done it and have no inclination to try. Just swapping out a standard fuse for a better one did it for me.

All the best,
Nonoise

How about magnets. Magnets enhance the directionality of ac passing thru them much the same as cryo treatment of metals and conductors enhance and unify the direction of their molecules. Results are better sound. Improved dynamics, lower noise.

"If you think this is Dumb, then in effect, you think high-end audio and audiophiles are dumb."

No, just wasting this much time talking about fuse directions.

Most of the rest is of more interest. Well, I gotta say with the exception of most of what Geoff likes to talk about in the interests of softening up any desperate suckers out there that might buy any of the crap he has the nerve to sell.

TBG, I think that your second previous post, which was addressed to NoNoise, may have been intended for someone else.

As Mapman indicated, the thread appears to have pretty much run its course, and opinions on all sides have been pretty well covered. As is usual in debates such as this, none of the opinions of any of the protagonists will wind up any different than they were at the start of the thread. Others who may read the thread will of course form their own opinions.

There is, however, one thing which has not yet been addressed by anyone other than me (and to some extent by Frogman, in responding to one of my posts). If any of those at the believer end of the spectrum wish to comment further, they may want to consider providing a description of what specific steps they took in their assessments of directionality differences to assure that the differences they heard were not the result of extraneous variables. Such as those I described in an earlier post, namely differences in contact integrity, equipment being in different states of warmup, differences in AC line voltages and noise conditions, etc. And note that I have not even mentioned until now the vagaries of aural perception.

As I indicated in my earlier post, it seems to me that eliminating those kinds of possibilities requires, as a minimum, that the fuse contacts be cleaned, and then that the listener makes several comparisons while going back and forth between the two directions several times.

Regards,
-- Al