We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses


LOL, I'll bet I gotcha on that Title! ;)  BTW, I put this thread under "Tech Talk" category as it involves the system physically, not tangentially. 

More seriously, two question survey:

1. Do you think designer fuses are A) a Gift to audiophiles, or B) Snake Oil 

2. Have you ever tried them?  Yes or No

In the tradition of such questions on Agon, I'll weigh in as we go along... 
Feel free to discuss and rant all you wish, but I would like to see clear answers to the questions. :) 
douglas_schroeder

Showing 4 responses by genez

What do you tell somebody who's system does not allow for them to hear a difference?  That in your system you definitively do?  Unless you invite them over to witness to this phenomena to hear it in your system? They will keep saying fuses do nothing because something in their system is veiling the benefits.  But, of course, if the spent big bucks?  It would have to mean everything is set up optimally by default of the expense.  This debate gets tiring after a while. If someone can not hear the benefits on their system? That means it can not be heard on mine.  That I have no right to hear what I do.... Like I said.  It gets tiring after a while.
I would much prefer "I can see testing."   Live with something for about a day, week, month and notice if you will be surprised by details and nuances that you never heard before.  Double blind is stupid.  You run it on a system you are not familiar with... with music you are not familiar with.. in a room you have no idea how things should sound... with recordings you have not heard a million times.  Detecting differences on short runs of music to be evaluated by men in white coats is not conducive for one to relax and enjoy the music. Its a test is like running an obstacle course.

What ever thing you are going to evaluate? Put it in your system and listen to it for a couple of weeks and listen to many different songs.  For the music picked for the blind test might not show the contrasts that with another song the attribute change becomes obvious.  

If you are a big boy and can hear?  Why go blind to see the light? Its stupid.   I used to run AB testing with amps and speakers when I sold audio. Its a pressure test. Not a pleasure test. 

If you can't hear when there is an improvement with your own system over time?   Then you leave it alone.  But,  stop treating those who do benefit as if they were mice in a lab. Its inane when on your own system it will either be heard, or not.  Its that simple. Some won't.   So they want to test others to prove that they are not missing something.  Its their way of getting back for what they lack.
You’re only out to prove that you are not missing something that others can hear. Why should we who do hear it, want to prove to you, that there is something you can not hear?  Double blind tests is not the way.  Live with something for a while and get used to what you hear.  Then, switch to the other and see what differences you can detect.  If you are listening with speakers that muddle the sound?   Who could hear what is needed in the first place?