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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

danvignau
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nonoise
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audio2destroy, there you go again: I confuse nothing just because of your silly premise that I do.

And again, what's with the juvenile challenges signaling fear as the resolving factor? Years of doing this gives one an accurate enough handle on the sound of one's system to the point where they don't need to resort to parlor tricks to ascertain whether they're hallucinating. 

I wish I had come up with this phrase but you're drowning in a reckless, infantile philosophy.

All the best,
Nonoise
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georgehifi
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I wish I had come up with this phrase but you’re drowning in a reckless, infantile philosophy.
Allnoise, stop being such a nong.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nong
theaudiotweak
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Another friend has Legacy speakers biamped. Listening we could both hear an imbalance in image and we had to keep shifting our seats. I replaced the fuse in the right chn. amp problem solved. He ordered cryo Acme brand silver fuses for 20 bucks ea. and when I returned I installed them for him. Nice jump in sound quality over that vibrating metallic dingle berry that is now in the trash..fuses are subjected to shear wave interference and it carries on from there. Tom
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georgehifi
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"shear wave interference"


SWI distortion wow!!!! that’s a new one, hope all the tech gurus like Nelson Pass, John Curl, Dan D’Agostino ect ect ect are taking notes on this one as they’ve now been relegated to the back seat.

Who pray tell discovered this new exciting distortion, so he can be put into the audio design hall of fame!!!!! He just has to be recognized!!!

You had dirty resistive fuse contacts on one speaker, and who the hell puts fuses in the speaker signal path anyway!!!! I know Magneplan used to and were chastised for doing it..
oldhvymec
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See, SEE, I told you guys... Neener, neener, neener...

Itty bitty shitty wire is bad. I told you that...

6-25.00 dollar fuses.. It can’t be floppin’ in the wind so to speak..

I like the 1.00 busman, TOO. Just not a lot of places. Where I can’t hear it. Perfect...

I have Infinity RS2Bs. LOL I've had them a LONG time. They have 4 fuses each..
Every two years new fuses, unless you want to hear BAD by year 3. Cheap busman 1 dollar fuses.
It's been 3 years sense I used them.. I use to put a dab of silicone on the fuse sides.

Time to feed the chickens...
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