A fuse is a fuse. The fuse filament is usually silver based and like many other things can be made of some unobtanium extra-terrestrial material. Space trips are expensive so they must be also ridiculous expensive.
Then there is standard quality and mediocre quality....
It is pointless to use "boutique" fuses and then neglect all the other construction materials, like "boutique" capacitors, resistors, wires, case etc.
Even Your ambient background sound affects listening pleasure.
Buy fuses from reputable tested / approved known brands and forget the rest.
Then there is standard quality and mediocre quality....
It is pointless to use "boutique" fuses and then neglect all the other construction materials, like "boutique" capacitors, resistors, wires, case etc.
Even Your ambient background sound affects listening pleasure.
Buy fuses from reputable tested / approved known brands and forget the rest.
escksu, do you have any personal interest in this topic relating to your own equipment, or is this just to provide some better appreciation when looking at glossy adverts, or reading threads on other forums?
I have some plastic wall rack fuse box holders, but they are opaque yellow rather than clear plastic. I think it improves the soundstaging.
If speaker fuses are included in the feedback loop, their negative effects are compensated out by the feedback unless the fuse's effects are so large that the feedback cannot swing a large enough correction signal, which I highly doubt. If they are after the feedback loop, then they can affect sound quality, possibly by lowering damping factor or else by introducing nonlinearity in their VI characteristics.
A proper design wouldn't have fuses as part of the feedback loop.
I've never seen that in power amp designs.
The B+ is the place to put fuses - always.
And the B+ at the amp, after the fuse, is usually filtered as well, eliminating any damping issues.
That is.... if the amp is designed properly.
I have. I was given some about 10 years ago to test. There were certainly well made and sure looked good. But I didn't find any sonic benefit in any circuit tested. Maybe they had a low ESR, but I didn't get a chance to test that.
Appearences - superficiality, something born into human nature from birth.
Like gold, silver, diamonds.
Rarely justified to improve anything, except feed the human mind's succeptability, its weaknesses.
As was mentioned by someone here, "a fuse is a fuse".
What person cares about fuse appearance?
When/if it blows, does one mount it in a frame and hang it above the mantle, on display?
Yet, those fuses you saw, were made that way simply to "impress".
Like many things produced - "looks are important" even for trivial items like those fuses.
Sensible, reliable, equipment seems to take a back seat to all the "glorious to behold" rediculous stuff out there.
Dressing up a fancy tube amplifier with mirrors behind the tubes to "enhance" their filament glow is another odd and goofy marketing tactic that, from my own perspective, isn't giving me any enhanced musical pleasure.
I'm no nutbag that listens to music, and stares at the equipment.
That's for obsessive types.
Like on another site - grown up people taking photos of their phono cartridges riding in the grooves of a record and gawk and admire the spectacle, like it's some kind of superstar modeling!
That's way too twisted for me.
I've gone on before about all the rediculous marketing techniques.
Like you said, there's no sonic benefit (snake oil) to all that junk.
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Sometimes, I tend to go "off on a tangent" about things, sorry.
It's just that over the (recent) years, I've seen SO much rediculous BS being advertized, flung at people's faces, and they buy into that stuff unknowingly.
It's just that over the (recent) years, I've seen SO much rediculous BS being advertized, flung at people's faces, and they buy into that stuff unknowingly.
Oh I don't disagree that's it's silly. But I just wanted to mention that the particular fuses I was given to test seemed very well made and a genuine effect to make something truly better. Even if wrong headed, someone put time, effort and material into the device.
When you've spent kilo-bucks on equipment and wires and plugs and such, why have all your current running thru some grubby looking little fuse? Keep that current path clean and beautiful! 😀
When you've spent kilo-bucks on equipment and wires and plugs and such, why have all your current running thru some grubby looking little fuse? Keep that current path clean and beautiful! 😀
I like taking them out of the box. Wiseoldtech has a nice rack of boxes. They're a bit like welding tips that way. And if they're a bit beaten up you can just file and thread them and use them.
Amen, Brother. 🙂
Also belong to the "measurement rules" school of thought, "double blind tests can be trusted" and so on but lately let people have fun with pet theories, who am I to do otherwise?, except when some silly idea is damaging or dangerous or unsafe.
If all it does is make people spend way more money than they should, so be it, it´s not my wallet. 😛
I agree that people can spend whatever they want on something, be it a car, house, whatever.
I back the principal of having freedom of choice.
But I'm also inclined towards freedom of speech, and call out much of the rediculousness with subjects that have been "dreamed up", or spread by individuals that make little to no sense.
Like wives tales for instance, and hearsay, with no real foundation.
I don't want to see some poor "ignorant of facts" individual being led by a bunch of lies and hype.
A recent UK TV consumer program showed the danger of non-UL rated fuses, I think you can guess country of origin.
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