Well I jumped into the deep end here this afternoon & purchased one $20 fuse for my preamp. The kids will still eat wolf (LOL). I'll let you know what I think after a hundred hours or so.
Aftermarket Fuses
Can I set the ground rules up front?? I hope so. There are two camps. One who can hear different audible reproduction using aftermarket fuses. The second camp can not justify in theory, or can not hear a difference in fuses. Fine. I respect both camps. Can we hold this discussion to those who can hear an audible difference in fuses?? Can we? If so, what is your choice in aftermarket fuses and describe, please, what you hear.
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We get a lot of 'show me the measurements' requests to what we hear. We are not engineers or whatever it is you need to be to have measurements. But we do trust our ears. Then some say you cannot trust your ears. So I thought this had a nice reasonable comment on how this gentleman feels. I think he has some credentials to say what he does. At about 9:30 in the video this man states how he feels if you cannot measure something yet still hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzoqEb2KMk&feature=youtu.be |
Hello guys, from my experience, simply cleaning the fuses contact points and the plus with acetone can reap very noticeable improvements. Treble becomes more airy and bass more defined and visceral. Therefore I am in no doubt that fuses can make an appreciable audible difference. However, the pricing is ridiculous. If these greedy manufacturers weren’t so stupid and priced their products reasonably, they would sell a lot more and some of this resistance against such tweaks would fade away as more people would witness the audible difference. K |
xtinct11 posts01-18-2019 6:23amHello guys, from my experience, simply cleaning the fuses contact points and the plus with acetone can reap very noticeable improvements. Treble becomes more airy and bass more defined and visceral. Therefore I am in no doubt that fuses can make an appreciable audible difference. However, the pricing is ridiculous. If these greedy manufacturers weren’t so stupid and priced their products reasonably, they would sell a lot more and some of this resistance against such tweaks would fade away as more people would witness the audible difference. >>>>Don’t worry so much. The aftermarket fuse makers are doing pretty well. More than 80,000 sold and counting. |
If these greedy manufacturers weren’t so stupid and priced their products reasonably, they would sell a lot more and some of this resistance against such tweaks would fade away as more people would witness the audible difference.While I kind of agree that the prices do appear to be steep I really do not think it would make much difference how they priced them tbh. Even if the SR Blue was priced at $50 say instead of $150 there would still be plenty of naysayers claiming a $2 Littelfuse is all you need! Might they actually sell more? Possible. Would the revenue they recover exceed that if priced higher? Doubtfull imho. |
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