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We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses

LOL, I'll bet I gotcha on that Title! ;)  BTW, I put this thread under "Tech Talk" category as it involves the system physically, not tangentially. 

More seriously, two question survey:

1. Do you think designer fuses are A) a Gift to audiophiles, or B) Snake Oil 

2. Have you ever tried them?  Yes or No

In the tradition of such questions on Agon, I'll weigh in as we go along... 
Feel free to discuss and rant all you wish, but I would like to see clear answers to the questions. :) 
douglas_schroeder
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geoffkait
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Do you live in a tree house? Besides, I said hi end fuses start at $5 and many are around twenty bucks. Uh, can’t you read?
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phomchick
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”It appears to be a common misconception that high end fuses have to expensive. That simply isn’t true, you know, no matter how hard they beat the drum. In fact the Cable Company page for fuses indicates many or maybe most high end fuses are less than $50. Some are much less than that. You’d have be a really down and out case to consider that expensive”

Yes, I can read. 
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geoffkait
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Really?
kosst_amojan
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Do any of you ever step back and try to imagine what this kind of ludicrous debate looks like to normal people? "Fusers" strike me as the audio equivalent to those religious fundamentalists who insist you must pronounce God's name in some strange way or else he won't hear your prayers. 

We don't need a fuse forum here. We need a snake oil forum and I nominate this tread as it's founding post.
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geoffkait
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By normal one assumes you probably mean those who think audiophiles are weird or who don’t know anything about fuses or electricity. All of their obsessions over fuses, Little Silver Bowls, electron tubes, turntables, $100K turntables, Message Foils, clocks, Teleportation Tweaks, vibration isolation, wire directionality. Oh, and their little rituals of treating LPs and CDs. Oh, my! All this religious inquisition talk can’t be good for anybody. 👺
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