17-Nov-2023, 17:11
Placebo is real - But not every real thing that your delicate sences can absorb is a placebo. It's the anxiety to fall for a placebo.
The old battle of nonbeliever and the empirically knowing.
You can definitly hear differences in fuses and it has nothing to do with amperes. Amperes should always be the same for sure when exchanging fuses.
I tried out these things my whole professionell hifi life and I don't say this because I sold these things but I experienced and learned about it.
You can hear a texture (a signature) of every kind of metal, be it copper, silver, gold, rhodium - be it on a power plug, a RCA, a XLR, a speaker terminal...you name it.
The same is true when such metals are used for fuses. Imagine - the whole power is transferred through this tine little thread of metal - surely it depends on build quality and metal used to build the fuse.
There are normal copper (brass)/nickel/chrome fuses (the standard)
There are copper (brass)/nickel/chrome/silver-gold coated fuses ("top" standard, THE placebos)
But there are also some fuses made of pure silver or pure copper or copper/rhodium plated and many more. Mostly these are also cryo-treated fuses.
From what I've heard I like the pure silver fuses cryo-treated best.
I don't know what kind of fuses the Pro-Dev's have. The non-Pro's have two SMD-Fuses. I'm not aware of better SMD fuses. I experienced the glass-body-type fuses.
Try the cheap fuses (of the exact same amperage) first to be sure you have no fault inside your Devialet (maybe it was only a surge on the net) and change to a better ones later (if there are any of the same type).
Regards,
gui
The old battle of nonbeliever and the empirically knowing.
You can definitly hear differences in fuses and it has nothing to do with amperes. Amperes should always be the same for sure when exchanging fuses.
I tried out these things my whole professionell hifi life and I don't say this because I sold these things but I experienced and learned about it.
You can hear a texture (a signature) of every kind of metal, be it copper, silver, gold, rhodium - be it on a power plug, a RCA, a XLR, a speaker terminal...you name it.
The same is true when such metals are used for fuses. Imagine - the whole power is transferred through this tine little thread of metal - surely it depends on build quality and metal used to build the fuse.
There are normal copper (brass)/nickel/chrome fuses (the standard)
There are copper (brass)/nickel/chrome/silver-gold coated fuses ("top" standard, THE placebos)
But there are also some fuses made of pure silver or pure copper or copper/rhodium plated and many more. Mostly these are also cryo-treated fuses.
From what I've heard I like the pure silver fuses cryo-treated best.
I don't know what kind of fuses the Pro-Dev's have. The non-Pro's have two SMD-Fuses. I'm not aware of better SMD fuses. I experienced the glass-body-type fuses.
Try the cheap fuses (of the exact same amperage) first to be sure you have no fault inside your Devialet (maybe it was only a surge on the net) and change to a better ones later (if there are any of the same type).
Regards,
gui
"Oh, you can buy the other. But then it is a cost intensive learning process"
berlin
