Fuses fuses fuses

It is placebo effect IMHO, but there is nothing wrong with it - the result is what counts.  If it improves the sound, then why not?!  Trying to convince believers is wrong, as wrong would be to tell the truth to a person who gets headache relief from placebo pills.

A placebo effect wouldn't compel me to defeat the tone controls of my integrated to offset the now, too high treble boost. Nor would it extend the soundstage permanently, instead of occasionally, beyond my speakers. Nor would it alleviate the upper mid bass emphasis (which I thought was a permanent feature due to rear porting and close front wall placement). I could go on but the naysayers would write it off as a sort of delusion, which is pure and unadulterated crap. 

One of the main tenets of scientific study is that it is repeatable, by OTHERS. So, get off your butts and try it for yourself, and stop quoting the bits of "science" that gives you the warm and fuzzies but amounts to nothing more than another dose of "weak tea" reasoning.

All the best, really,
Nonoise

It is always good to remember that ’objectivity’ in all derivations of the word and it’s attached vectors and meanings..... exists solely at the will, whim, desires, aims, and projected stance - of an exclusively subjective reality. Objectivity is a projection. All forms of science attached to the leading edges, defining standards, fundamental concepts and historical backdrop of all human endeavor state this point unequivocally.

Except for the technical aspects of engineering and the nature of it's schooling and collective methodologies.

Such proponents, adherents, and mental leanings of a specific sort of mind of those who lean in that direction... they are taught that objective reality exists, or that it is implied within such a given collective envelope... that objective reality somehow -exists.

It does not.

"It is always good to remember that 'objectivity' in all derivations of the word and it's attached vectors and meanings..... exists solely at the will, whim, desires, aims, and projected stance - of an exclusively subjective reality."

This should be patently clear to all that this the type of newspeak namby-pamby that clouds discussion obscures meaning and denies the very existance of science. If this claim were true there would no way to launch a satellite into orbit no way to develop a new antibiotic and in fact no way to even balance a simple checkbook. This is the type of "theory" that is used by deniers of all persuations to further their agenda without letting facts such as well settled science get in the way but of course it is not a "theory" at all it is nonsensical posturing.

It takes a certain depth of self awareness and intellect to derive the given point in logic, and it’s origins in the world of logic.

The vaster components of human reality reject it (ie the bulk of humanity), due to the origins of ’mind’ ...and logic being formed and ensconced in mind and body.... but that does not make it any less true.

If one researches this given point, that is what they will find.

The concept of objective reality has been useful, yes, but it remains a concept -- and by all logic, cannot slip the confines of subjective origin and carrier.

It’s sort of a ’round about way of saying that observation cannot be dismissed... and the very incomplete science of engineering in audio is not an ultimate truth.

This question of fuses, for example, has multiple complexities in it's envelope of points and ’facts’, and only when the bulk of them have been properly worked out, does a more clear answer emerge.

This is not a ’first past the post’ kind of endeavor with regard to defining and reaching an answer. Even a three year old can tell you who won a horse race, and this question and answer set of ’fuses in audio’ is as far from such a simple concept as a horse race -as you can imagine.

The number of variables are not overly high and do not present too much complexity, but mind, ahhh..mind... the given mind in the question and data sets which might potentially be discerned....~that~ is another matter altogether.