Sorry to dredge up an old post, but @geoffkait cracks me up sometimes. This is just about the dumbest argument I've ever heard. You are paying a manufacturer for multi-thousand dollar amplifiers, and you think they are too stupid to include a part that would be better sounding? Just because they are too dumb to realize it?
Quite obviously it's a cost decision, and as someone else said, if it sounds great with a cheap fuse, why not let the buyer choose what they want? I, for one, refuse to give money to an engineering firm that I think isn't too smart.
That said, I'm a doubter on the fuse thing, but I have just ordered a pair of Padis fuses to check it out. The only way I'll know is to try.
Quite obviously it's a cost decision, and as someone else said, if it sounds great with a cheap fuse, why not let the buyer choose what they want? I, for one, refuse to give money to an engineering firm that I think isn't too smart.
That said, I'm a doubter on the fuse thing, but I have just ordered a pair of Padis fuses to check it out. The only way I'll know is to try.
geoffkait13,144 posts09-05-2017 5:09pmIn response to the previous post I would point out that the argument that Aftermarket Fuses are too high for manufacturers to use them is a little weak inasmuch as 80% of all Aftermarket Fuses actually cost $50 or less, according to the list of available Aftermarket Fuses on The Cable Company web site. And many Aftermarket Fuses can be bought at lower prices when they go on sale. For example the SR Black fuse, certainly not one of the less expensive fuses, was offered recently at the price of three for the price of two. So, in fact, amp manufacturers can’t really use the cost argument, assuming they even know about aftermarket fuses which, as I’ve already intimated, they probably don’t.
There are really only two possibilities. The high end amp manufacturers are totally in the dark and blissfully unaware, as it were, regarding the whole fuse thing, including directionality, or they can’t hear. I bet they don’t even put the inexpensive stock fuses in the correct direction. At least not on purpose.