The guru on fuses:


For two years, I have asked why and how fuses could possibly matter. All I got was arguments of faith, pro or con. I needed a real audio guru who actually knows. Here is a link from John Curl’s discussion on Parasound’s website. He engineered and designed some some great equipment, including some Mark Levinson gear, The Grateful Dead’s 30 plus McIntosh amp powered Wall of Sound, and his admittedly, somewhat price compromised Parasound designs. He discusses the electrical properties of standard fuses, showing how they are compromised. The entire article is quite enlightening, but to skip to the fuse section, go to the bottom half of page 6. https://www.parasound.com/pdfs/JCinterview.pdf

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No conclusion? if you need votes, I am +1 on fuses making a sonic difference also. We know that protection is required and Mr. Curl also honestly stated that measurements cannot be faithful if done statically-no explanation yet (work under progress).
 Mr. interviewer you did not ask the right question whether an upmarket fuse should have value if any. In fact there was no question for any upmarket item, so no answer.
But...
Resistors have other characteristics that effect the sound. One is the
type of lead material used.
Apart from a generally soft interview with a well respected manufacturer I was not enlightened whether an upmarket fuse is audiophoolery since he claims that different type of materials affect the sound. One coin with same side?
And finally he seals it.

Finally I stopped measuring and started listening, and I realized that
the capacitor did have a fundamental flaw. This is were the ear has it all
over test equipment.


G
people have two ears and two eyes, unfortunatelly some cannot trust the function of these two and use only the mind and the fingers to listen and see.
I agree that op knew how it will go.

G