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Can a fuse affect the sound quality ?

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I don't see any Fuse reviews here

I've seen gold plated, silver core and what not audiophile fuses. Yet, no review on any of them. RCA plugs are also left alone in the darkness. Can someone do some amp tests with and without "audio" fuse?
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KenA said:
If you stick them in your ears they probably would.
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Proper placement is in one's anal opening.

ps but you still need to play with that directional thing :)
 
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Why does this strike me as ridiculous?

If, after doing so, neither direction resulted in an immediate improvement, I would also strongly recommend trying it at right angles to the original direction of insertion.
 
The best fuse method is the ladder one, especially for cars.

Start with a 2A fuse and if it blows, go up to 5A fuse. Rinse and repeat until it stops popping. You could just skip the line and use a 35A fuse and let your amp have full potential. Heck let your amp have ultimate potential by getting a bypass fuse because all fuses limit great power. Smell something funny down the road?, its probably that new electronic smell that everybody loves talking about. I mean when you pulled out that new shiny amp out of its packaging, it did smell heavily like plastic, and so the smell will eventually go away.

I mean clearly a 10 Amp Maxi fuse has the same potential as a 25 Amp Mini Blade fuse because like engines, fans and subwoofers, the surface area is bigger and can totally handle more.
 
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JSmith said:
Look sceptics may scoff at this, but I swear by the transformative power of these magic audiophile marvels. Music comes alive with a newfound vibrancy... highs sparkle, mids resonate and lows rumble with depth. It’s as if the performers themselves are in my living room.

In the pursuit of sonic perfection surely cost is trivial to those who understand? You're missing out as these fuses aren’t just upgrades, they’re gateways to audio nirvana. /s :facepalm:

:p


JSmith
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You forgot the ever so important "I felt like a veil had been lifted"... Like a wet blanket had been in front of the speaker and suddenly it was gone...
 
I believe it should not affect the sound because the fuse is situated before power supply in the electrical path.

I would like to point out that I intentionally use "electrical path" instead of "signal path", because there is no audio signal going through the fuse.

If what I just wrote is 100% correct, I do not know, since I am not an expert on the topic. Perhaps there is some combination of factors where fuses affect the sound.
 
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WOLFAGRAM said:
I believe it should not affect the sound because the fuse is situated before power supply in the electrical path.

I would like point out that I intentionally use "electrical path" instead of "signal path", because there is no audio signal going trough the fuse.
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We get you. Whatever the AC mains does the signal path gets but it is in what quantity that matters. It has to be a huge quantity of distorted and non-standard AC mains voltage to get the signal path to be a subject of AC mains induced distortions and SINAD etc.
WOLFAGRAM said:
If what I just wrote is 100% correct, I do not know, since I am not an expert on the topic. Perhaps there is some combination of factors where fuses affect the sound.
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Exaitías aftoú tóte aftó. Greek for, "Because of that then this." For your question and assumption that what you wrote is correct and so it correlates with fuses is not a fact and it is a incorrect statement. Fuses when properly specified do not affect the signal in any meaningful way if any way worth even metering or mentioning. But it's a fun idea to toss around if one has spare time... LoL.
 
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Fuses do affect sound, the question is how much

OK, so about forty years ago I watched a fuse pulsate to the bass beats in an amplifier. It was a fuse in line with the speaker, and for speaker protection. Fuses react to current flow and they heat up when it happens. Now, I don't think I heard the affects of this fuse whose impedance was...
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enjoy reading ...

The short answer is that when a fuse is in the speaker path and is being warmed up (current nearing melting point) you might get some measurable effects in increased distortion. That will be dwarfed by the distortion the speaker will exhibit at that level.

Elsewhere in the chain the possible effects a fuse could have (high currents) will be before the feedback path of the amplifier so is basically compensated for.

One only needs to be worried about fuses when they blew ...
 
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raif71 said:
In other words...you got to let the fuse have some burn-in time
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Burn-in is essential, but burn-out should be avoided.
 
Ageve said:
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Burn-in is essential, but burn-out should be avoided.
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haha...I meant the fuse should be burn-out
 
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