Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses.

Wolfman wrote,

"I would bet that if you snuck into a "fuse-centric" audiophile’s listening room and reversed all the fuses exactly nobody would know…the fun part starts when years later you tell ’em about it."

Actually, it would be the skeptic who wouldn’t be able to hear the difference if you snuck into his room and reversed his cheap stock fuses. You know, since 50% of his cheap stock fuses are inserted in the wrong direction to begin with. Thus reversing them all would result in, you guessed it, 50% of the fuses would still be in the wrong direction. And the sound would be just as bad as it was in the first place. The fun starts.....now!

I heard back from Klaus at Odyssey Audio:

[Current flow] "from the center of the board outward."

For Stratos owners who have not yet opened the hood, you will know what he means...

Anyone have any experience with HiFi Tuning Classic Gold fuses? I'm looking for specific experiences with the Classic Gold only. Anything from Silver on up is too salty for me right now :-)

brf1,444 posts04-04-2016 7:14pmIf you can hear the difference when using "audiophile" fuses, you should be able to hear the difference between the two directions.

THAT'S right to the point.

My obsessive efforts to increase personal audible sensitivity ended unsuccessfully over a decade ago. I tried to find specific nutrition, used ear-vac to remove the wax and tons of various methods including recreational drugs until I came up with so THIS hypothetical conclusion:

EYES CAN HEAR MORE THAN EAR.

There won't be any directionality if the fuse is used in an AC circuit. Its really really hard to see how such a fuse could then be used in a DC circuit and impart any directionality whatsoever. I'd love to see the explanation on that one!!

There is no explanation needed when the "audio magic" light is lit, as geoffkait (and other supposed golden eared magicians) firmly believes the skeptics put up with "bad sound" as they dare to not consume the Kool Aid hard sold to the easily duped…how bad does atmasphere's rig sound? Must not be too good if he's a "directionality denier" which is ironic as he seems to know more about this stuff than most of us.