The more the kit delivers the better. Matters not if it is the kit or any of the accessories like fuses, just has to deliver.

Those who deny such improvements are impossible - *without trying them out* - are deniers. As in climate change deniers.

Trying out tweaks and not hearing any difference puzzles me.

I'll make a wild guess and venture that this refers to a thread somewhere else!

Just try the damned things and listen for yourself. That applies to any component.

I'm using £60 SR Red fuses throughout.
Are they better than no fuse at all? Of course not!
Are they better than standard fuses? Yes, they sound better.
Are they worth the money? Only you can decide. For me, yes they are.

QED

Sorry Andrew, I was referring to the OP.

Maybe he sells them because he thinks they work?  Some businesses work like that.

I've tried some cheaper audiophile fuses and heard a difference although it didn't seem like an improvement to me.
Thanks to the current AOS thread, and my hifi budget being replenished at the start of the year, I've ordered one of the £90 jobbies. Well, it's money back if not happy.

I see stimulated interest and noting a few are going to try some super fuses. I wonder if ANYONE reports back they made no difference. Returned and refunded.

As ever I await descriptions of how different tryers report.

I shall not be testing them in my system. Thats because I do not seek to tweak (or notice) the last gram of improvement because I cannot remember what it sounded like last time.


Enjoy your music

I don’t know what some readers here expect. If I said, for example, that smearing Stilton onto plugs whilst reciting the first paragraph of Beowulf backwards - before putting said plugs into mains sockets - improved the SQ of my hi-fi, I HOPE the overall reaction would be healthy scepticism.

Why? Because if flies in the face of not only scientific principles but Common Sense.

So it is with cables and fuses (I notice, with interest, that much of the AV forums/websites now acknowledge that there is NO difference in quality between HDMI cables (with the possible exception of the give-away freebies)).

Mains cables… 400 yards of poor, noisy, cabling to the house and then a metre of highly expensive ‘audiophile’ cable is meant to make a difference? (Assuming all male-female connectors are cleaned/gold). Silver fuses? Well I could believe that if the resistance was lower than the standard fuse; (the comparison here BTW must be between the new silver fuse and the former fuse whose contacts have been cleaned). People are rightly sceptical because it flies in the face, as I have said, of received information.

I am not one of those (like Lord Kelvin) who believes that if it can’t be measured it cannot exist, but in cases like this the first port of call must be robust, unbiased measurements followed by double-blind, randomised, A-B comparisons (followed by a suitable stats test). This is the way -the only way- science can move us forward. However, the Subjective-Objective argument is an interesting one and one aired to death and beyond on various forums -especially the AoS one.

It is still possible for people to swear that they can hear a difference. The placebo effect here is very strong (read Dr Ben Goldsmith’s book “BadScience”), and this may account for these perceived differences, as may the fact that they were right all along! Science does have these exciting monumental shifts ( called ‘paradigm shifts’) but they are extremely rare!

For those of us who have lived our lives in the ‘caring professions’ perhaps we have an over-developed sense of protection/duty of care. I still think it is right to point out the inherent fallacy of such ‘improvements’, if only to stop the poor and gullible from being duped by snake-oil salesmen. What they should do is wait until there is a large enough body of authoritative opinion that ‘x’ is an improvement before parting with their cash. Unfortunately Hi-Fi mags have been less than reliable here and there is, at present, a very unhelpful attitude (“popularism”) by the general public towards experts and authority. (I am also a hypocrite here as I have often prematurely jumped in with both feet…does anyone else recall the fitting of small black sticky triangles on the upper right side of all mains plugs connected to the hi-fi - I still have one!).

I wonder which rare-earth element, randomly picked from the Periodic Table, will be the next ‘golden-ear’ must-have.

So what DO we do with people who say as the OP, that, ‘never mind what others say I can hear a difference and that’s all that matters’? Well, I really don't know. Let them get on with it I suppose (as long as they can afford it); but don’t let them persuade others(?). Don’t be rude? I really don’t know!

In conclusion, I am not saying that the Objective/Empirical model is the only one but healthy scepticism for what may appear ‘non-sense’ is just that - healthy. (Sorry it’s taken me so long to say it).
…and before any potential key-board warriors get frothing at the mouth…yes I DO have silver fuses AND expensive mains cables (I am more convinced that the latter have an advantage due to screening). Do they sound better…? Certainly if the Stilton (see Para1) is accompanied by a good Port.

Yours, Bonky.

Phil, you wouldn't buy it if it was 90p

I have a question about the SR Black fuses.
How quickly do they blow in relation to a standard fuse?
For example a 3.15A Slo-blow fuse?

I looked for the specs online, but could not find any.