We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses

 
mapman
One indisputable fact for sure is you change a fuse and you also change the connection. No way to get around that one! Everyone knows connections do matter. Right? How do you get around that one in order to be sure its the fuse and not just the connection changing the sound?

By careful testing.

mapman
If you treat a regular fuse with contact enhancing gunk does that make it a fancy fuse? Inquiring minds want to know!

Sure, why not? 

mapman
What if the properties of the gunk changes with age (like most of us and not usually for the better) and the connection gets worse over time not better? is there some high end gunk remover for that?

What if it doesn’t change? What if electrons get old and cranky?

@timlub 
Thanks for thinking it through and taking the $4 challenge. 👍

Not too dear a price to see for oneself if there is something to all
of this. It opens minds as well as doors. I just wish more were 
willing to try instead of decry. 

Don't take it personally if you're deluged with demands for double
blind testing or that you're delusional or suffer from expectation bias.
For some, that $4 could have gotten a subscription to Skeptics Weekly.
😄

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise 

I have now purchased these a few times and @douglas_schroeder  I did measure directional resistance before putting them in, not sure that direction matters, but I figured "why not"..  
Tim 

timlub
I did measure directional resistance before putting them in, not sure that direction matters, but I figured "why not"..

Interesting. What were your measurements?

nonoise3,110 posts03-21-2018 8:48amAs I've already said, I've swapped out three different fuses and they all sound better one way than another and when replacing one set of fuses, I put them in the wrong way and it was immediately apparent.

Really!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw32fiasUSs

Cheers George