I've heard it said a mother can recognize the cry of her infant
Not sure about humans, but definitely true in many animals.
Changing wire is no mystery. Differences can be predicted with math. Audibility, not.
Jury is still out on fuses other than acting as non-linear resistors until shown mathematically and all other possible causes are adequately controlled.
@rodman99999 My comment on phase was not to suggest that it is the only important parameter but that it is so very important and largely ignored. Next year it will be half a century since Richard Heyer's seminal paper "Loudspeaker Phase Characteristics & Time Delay" and yet speakers are released every year that can only be described as incoherent.

