Fuses that matter.

Roxy, have you given any consideration to laying off the Viagra for a while?

No way! I couldn't do without it. I place one pill at the top corners of each speaker cabinet...it improves the cabinet rigidity. I'm surprised that a genius such as yourself didn't "discover" it first.

06-06-12: Tbg
Bryoncunningham, I admire your eagerness but think this is largely fruitless as there are too many fuses and too many components.

06-06-12: Geoffkait
Let's say an average system contains 7 fuses. Now, I suspect there are some statisticians here who can do the calculation for how many tests would be required for 7 types of fuses and 7 fuse installations. And how long it would take. A hundred years?

I see. So I'm wasting my time experimenting with fuses. I wish I had thought of that. Wait a second. Aren't you the same guys who said...

05-12-12: Tbg
These pseudo-scientists fail to disprove what observations tell them-there is a difference in fuses. Rather than a priori refusals they should GET TO WORK finding what accounts for the differences.

05-16-12: Tbg
Hopefully, there are some who will dismiss the rhetoric and TRY DIFFERENT FUSES and fuse direction.

05-20-12: Tbg
To not offend doubters' sensibilities, I will just say that such an A/B TESTING TO GET IT RIGHT is absolutely necessary.

04-28-12: Geoffkait
Don't you often find a Skeptic to be someone who pontificates from the comfort of an easy chair but who rarely, if ever, GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS AND ACTUALLY INVESTIGATES the object of his pontification?

05-12-12: Geoffkait
Isn't the scientific method, ESPECIALLY INVESTIGATION, the underlying requirement for arriving at the truth?

05-12-12: Geoffkait
As a skeptic, don't you think truth would be better served by ACTUAL INVESTIGATION rather that idle speculation from the comfort of your Barko Lounger?

So let me get this straight...

1. You guys say that people's opinions matter only if they experiment with fuses.

2. I experiment with fuses.

3. You guys say that it is a waste of time to experiment with fuses.

Did I miss something? Let me check... No, I didn't. Can we just start referring to your position as The Double Bind?

Gotta go. My Viagra is kicking in.

Bryon

Bryon wrote,

"So let me get this straight...

1. You guys say that people's opinions matter only if they experiment with fuses."

- Yes, otherwise it's just idle speculation.

"2. I experiment with fuses."

- Your opinion matters more than someone who hasn't experimented, but it is still an opinion. No one person's experiment is definitive, it's only a data point. We should consider your opinion along with all of the many other published experiments - and our own experiments. Simply because you are still sitting on the fence regarding fuses should not mean that anyone else should also be sitting on the fence.

"3. You guys say it is a waste of time to experiment with fuses."

- Strawman argument alert. I don't think anyone is saying that at all, at least not me. My "hundred years" comment was responding to another poster's inquiry regarding professional comparison tests of aftermarket fuses. I was pointing out the heroic effort that would be involved in such a comparison test, not that it would be a waste of time.

Twilight Zone!

Nothing more is likely to get resolved anytime soon regarding fuses and sound quality.

So the scientific bottom line as I see it: try it if you like it! Tweak vendors will rejoice for sure!

Nothing new there.