The secret to a great amplifier...

Tim, they come with a full 30 day return guarantee. Hardly any get returned because they work so well. As redwoodaudio notes the improvement is not subtle. Its roughly equivalent to a good $500 power cord, interconnect, etc.  

Redwoodaudio, You will enjoy the eMats. Very similar improvement to what you hear with the Orange fuses, only even more smooth and natural. Not the kind of thing that hits you over the head, more you notice many things sound much more real.  

Try them different places. They seem to work best near powerful fields. They can be cut up into strips and wrapped around outlets inside the box, or around speaker magnets, or even speaker cables and power cords. I have them practically lining the insides of my conditioner and step-down transformer boxes, and wrapped around most of my cables.

I'm surprised ten HFT did nothing. Mine went up one at a time or in pairs, and it was easy to hear not only the improvement each one made but to fine tune it by moving them slightly one way or another. One time I tried one where I thought it would be good, but it actually made the sound worse. Never had one where it made no difference at all.

Right. The signal path is not what we think it is. If it was then power conditioners, and even power supplies, would not matter. Heck even speaker cabinets would be irrelevant. Hard to get more outside the signal path than a speaker cabinet. Then again, maybe not. The room is even further outside the signal path. Yet there are people who say the room is the most important component.

One thing we can say for sure, anyone who says a fuse can’t matter because its outside the signal path, or whatever, when all these other things do, well they have at the very least not given the subject much thought.

redwoodaudio, one more thing you might want to try. There are people on this site with nothing to contribute other than an endless drive to post over and over again more and more evidence that they have nothing to contribute. Some are downright mean, others just way less funny than they think they are. The one thing they all have in common is they produce a huge amount of bilge we all must wade through to find what's worth reading. 

What I have found seems to work pretty good, you find someone like that you make a list. So you don't forget. Because those of us with normal personalities, our natural instinct is to treat everyone as equals. So we need a list to remind ourselves. Then put them on permanent ignore. Do not respond to a single thing they post. They don't exist.  

If you can think of a better answer I'm all ears. Saves a tremendous amount of time and frustration because the instant you see the name you know to not read any further. What's the point? They didn't write it for you anyway. They wrote it for themselves. So let them be to themselves. Eventually maybe they will learn to just move along.  

Don't hold your breath. Don't waste it on them either. For an attenion seeker nothing worse than not getting any. Permanent ignore. That's the ticket.

redwoodaudio, since you have a high value approach and appreciate these kinds of improvements, there's a whole world of tweaks, all different kinds, yet producing very similar improvement. Similar in terms of improved detail, dynamic shadings (and sometimes macro dynamic power and slam), lower noise for blacker backgrounds.  

The Orange Fuse is high value because for $160 or whatever its about as much as a lot of $500 power cords.  

Incidentally, if one should ever blow give them a call, I don't know if its SR or the dealer but they seem to have a policy of replacing one if it blows.

Too bad. You're right, the Orange Fuse is incredible.

As to why they don't just stick the fuse in there and blow the competition away (they would) the answer is simple. And unlike the haters this is an actual answer not made up BS. I called up and asked some of these guys. The answer is simple: cheap fuses are cheap, consistent, and low risk. 

Besides, think about it. If they do the fuse, what about the feet? Stock feet are horrible. Why do they ship the crappy rubber freebie power cord? Patch cords? Eventually people will figure out its the SR Orange Fuse. Then some guy gonna wonder why not the Beeswax? I want the Beeswax! Where does it end?  
Its just mental goofy the criticisms haters come up with. Mental crazy.  

Its not the thread that should be shut down. Its them. The haters. Shut them down. At least until they learn to move along. Please.