Audio Grade Fuse, Anyone?

Opusone, I have not tried the opposite direction. I did have some difficulty in establishing which was the direction going from the wall to the Exemplar. If you trace the path from the power cord to the fuse holder, it appears that the fuse holder's side near the wire from the IEC would be the one from which the arrow should point, but that is not the case. When I removed the fuse and checked with a meter, I had continuity with the other side.

I have since been told that indeed the arrow is to point from the wall to the unit.

The fuse actually does break-in??? It has been better each of the last two nights. I don't understand this phenomenon.

I seem to recall that Mission, the UK audio mfr, didn't want to "corrupt" the signal from its amps and built one without a fuse. Since the little thing would put out 60 amps, I believe they also demonstrated, at one point, use of their amp to weld with the speaker cables.

I, personally, would not go this route. ;)

Edesilva,
I don't think I quite follow you. Are you saying that we should not try to replace the fuse with another fuse (similar current rating) because it might blow up the amp? Or putting the fuse in in the wrong direction might disable the fusing function?

No, he is saying do not go without a fuse.

20MM is that 3 quarters of an inch?I just measured the one visable fuse in my Marantz DV8300 2AMP/125 volt.Also the directional thing is puzzling because the fuse is mounted sideways (not pointing towards the front or rear of the unit)