Hi Fi Tuning Supreme fuse-Burn In?

Hi Guys

I'm not going to speak to the reliability of fuses because quite frankly I've never had one blown or cause damage to any products. Maybe that's me just being careful. However I have had experience in how they sound as well as how they change sound depending on a few mechanical adjustments and material choices. I've now done fuse swapping on over 10 amplifiers and at the end of the day (2016) yes they do sound different and yes they do sound different per amplifier. Directional? Yes they actually are directional. But, can be trained to go the other way, just like cables can (some cables).

If I were to give a caution it would be these, watch out for the upward shift in tone and keep your ear on the bottom octave as the wrong fuse will get phazy sounding. Also keep an eye on your stage, because when you make a fuse change you are also going to make a speaker placement change more then likely, or even cable change. "everything affects everything else".

Michael

Just as with all of our senses, doing is the proof. Sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing are all done by doing. "A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception." The premise of test equipment doing the listening for us is not possible. For one, a microphone is not a human ear. For another everyone has different sensitivities.

Some people are wired not to be as perceptive as others in audio. If kosst says he can’t hear it therefore it doesn’t exist, I for one am cool with that. As for many of us who can hear these things we should just accept that kosst can’t and move on. Does it really matter who can and who can’t? I think it only serves as a reference to know who does and who doesn’t for future talks.

What is sometimes weird to me is, after a person is here posting for awhile it’s easy to see that they are taking a position just to have one. They are going to make the same statements everywhere they go. None of us should be surprised that kosst is going to raise the "snake oil" flag every time he gets a chance. Like wise I will always say "everything affects everything else". Folks like kosst can’t hear certain changes and others can hear every slightest change, and the rest are somewhere in between. I think we just need to let it be what it is, cause I don’t see a lot of people all that willing to change.

We should be audio gentlemen above all, and respect that some do and some don’t. It would be scary if we all showed up at the same restaurant and all ordered the exact same meal wouldn’t it?

Michael Green

PS just saw this as Cleeds puts it nicely "Speaking of measurements, do you have any to support your claim "most people think this stuff is snake oil?"