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fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones

My Rogue Cronus recently blew a slow blow fuse. I was surfing to find a replacement. The stock fuse is a typical metal end cap, glass and "wire" fuse. The audio emporiums only seemed to offer these $39 German gold plated end wunderkinds. I finally found "normal" fuses from a guitar amp site. Has anyone tried the uber fuses and found the sound better? Hard to understand how it could be. Thanks for any thoughts.
joe_in_seattle
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albertporter
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ILS? Not understood.
theaudiotweak
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Albert, That was If Lightning Strikes. Tom
tvad
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So, the answer is "no" to the question, "Do the non fuse magnets provide protection"?
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dave_b
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Magnets...Hmmm! Now that's a gem. No wonder manufacturers discourage this sort of stuff.
theaudiotweak
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Yes is the answer to no protection. Yes is the answer to better sound. Yes is to the fact that I removed the ferrous cover to my ac mains. Yes is to the better sound resulting from the removal of said cover. Yes it is still covered, now with a non ferrous material. Yes I hope to replace the entire box with a non ferrous enclosure. Yes I believe my system will sound better as a result. Tom
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