Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ????

John,

Interesting! I went househunting out there a couple weeks ago and drove from Kansas City to the Manhattan area, where I bought a house. I was very surprised at the temperated weather (which I know won't last long) and the beautiful rolling terrain. The people were very friendly across the board, too. My wife and I grew up in and near Houston, Texas, so we're well-prepared for the muggy summers. :)

The monsoons and their corresponding brownouts and lightning storms here in the high desert caused me to buy an APC S10 last summer, but I will continue to unplug when those buggers hit in Kansas - thanks for the tip!

I've only been to Portland in Oregon, but I hear the entire state is just gorgeous. I'll bet you guys are really enjoying it there.

Howard

Well,heard the fuses(HI FI Tuning),before and after,in a friend's exact pre/phonostage as mine.Definitely a clearly audible improvement!!
I would liken it,almost exactly,to moving up to a superior set of tubes!

Best!

I agree, Sir Speedy, and have now spent $150 on the damn things. I need a keeper :-)

I bought an Isoclean fuse to compare against the HiFi Tuning fuse. I seriously doubted there would be any difference.

Last night I sat down and spent three hours listening to several tracks twice - first time with one fuse in, second time with the other. I jotted down a few notes from time to time. Can you guess the results?

That's right - the HiFi Tuning fuse won almost across the board. For jazz and classical I preferred the HiFi Tuning fuse because everything seemed cleaner, airier, and just more "real." The Isoclean fuse had more-defined imaging, but I felt some wind instruments, chiefly alto and tenor sax, sounded ever-so-slightly colored. The only place I might have preferred the Isoclean was with hard rock.

Just my two cents, but I thought my experience was interesting in light of this thread.

As an aside, there's a thread on audiocircle where some folks in Denver recently tested various fuses, and found a silver-plated fuse that they liked better than the HiFi Tuning fuse. You can find the thread here: http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=28274

Howard

Aggielaw -- Q: Which direction were the arrows on the Isocleans pointing when you placed them in the fuse holders?... just curious?