Audiophile grade mains fuses

[d4v3pum4]

Andrew Everard:
Please stop this continual abuse of forum members and libellous accusations, as both are against house rules.

In my opinion there has been far too much of that in this thread, from both sides I might add and this thread shouldn't have been allowed to have sunk to this in the first place.....

 

[Anonymous]

Andrew Everard:
Cyril Mason:Yes you should. If you are going to plagiarise, it's wise to make sure the person you're borrowing from knows what they're talking about.

Please stop this continual abuse of forum members and libellous accusations, as both are against house rules.

Sorry Andrew. I do get a little carried away at times.

It turns out he was borrowing from an article about the advantages of switch mode PSU versus conventional large transformers and didn't do it very well.

It won't happen again.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm unsure if The Chord Co. is a reliable source!

I would start with a text book.

 

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Eddie Pound:
I'm unsure if The Chord Co. is a reliable source!

I would start with a text book.

Do you mean The Chord Company or Chord Electronics Ltd?

 

[Anonymous]

Tear Drop:Eddie Pound:
I'm unsure if The Chord Co. is a reliable source!

I would start with a text book.

Do you mean The Chord Company or Chord Electronics Ltd?

The Chord Co. Did Trev mean Chord Electronics? There was also a Russ Andrews mention, so I went with the former.

 

[Anonymous]

It appears that some think the man doesn't know what he is talking about, I wouldn't presume to know as much as him.
However I do have a understanding on the subject and am in agreement with his evaluations.

Chord Electronics was founded in 1989 by John Franks who had previously held Directorships with Astec, the world leader in high frequency power supplies, Raytheon and AT&T.

A thorough mix of graduate level intellect, design experience and dedicated craft persons embody Chords production team, with our sales being achieved through a reputation of technical excellence, reliability and superb sound quality.

His Client list is impresive to say the least.

If you want to hear what Hi End Hi-Fi sounds like, you could do worse than audition his companies range. IMHO

 

[Anonymous]

By far the worst sound at The Gadget Show this weekend was Chord Electronics with WB speakers.

 

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Eddie Pound:By far the worst sound at The Gadget Show this weekend was Chord Electronics with WB speakers.

Still? I remember going to a show 5 or 6 years ago and hearing Chord Electronics paired with Wilson Benesch speakers and it remains one of the worst sounding systems I have ever heard. Depressing to know that not much has changed.

 

[professorhat]

Eddie Pound:By far the worst sound at The Gadget Show this weekend was Chord Electronics with WB speakers.

Did they forget to use decent mains leads?

 

[Anonymous]

It was very distorted and sounded broken. It was more than a subjective "I dislike that sound" - it was offensive.

 

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Eddie Pound:
It was very distorted and sounded broken. It was more than a subjective "I dislike that sound" - it was offensive.

Lol, ditto

 

[Anonymous]

Doesn't do much for the cred of the Gadget show then.

A serious miss match or faulty units?

 

[Anonymous]

So it was RCD you meant, Trev, not RCB? Assumed it was a typo, and good to see it now corrected.

 

[idc]

I have not read through this post yet, but before I do, I would say that here audiophile fuses means the very best quality fuses and audiophiles love to pamper their hifis, just like some people buy cute designer coats for the dogs. As igglebert went on to say in the second post, no harm and a bit of fun. But I see the last post is the moderator commenting in capital letters no less. I will now wait until the family are in bed and put on some mellow music, crack open a beer and I cannot wait to read through the whole of this post. This is so exciting!

 

[Anonymous]

matengawhat:
igglebert:No but I was going to order a pack of Russ Andrews 13 amp silver fuses next month to see whether they boost my mains cable. Who knows, all good fun. I know Cyril, it won't make any difference but I'm going to do it anyway

only way to know for sure is to buy some - placed an order for 10 today to repalce all the fuses in my merlins mains leads and blocks will try on both hi fi set up and home cinema set up and let you know my thoughts.

Nice one, will look forward to it. I'll do the same soon but I should add, all listening tests are done with varying amounts of red Bordeaux.

 

[matengawhat]

well i've just added a ra timbre interconnect which is attenuated and rewired my two power amps to now run as one for hf and one lf instead of using them in mono formation so lots of changes not tried mixing in the wine yet!!!

 

[matengawhat]

also bought a set of shorties to fill in my empty rca inputs - more snake oil!!

god i must be a marketers dream!

 

[Anonymous]

Like to hear your take on them matengawhat.

Have an open mind, who would have thought that replacing fuses would have had the effect they did, until I tried it myself.

Surprise, surprise!

 

[matengawhat]

in the grand scheme of things 25 quid for my setup isn't a massive outlay not sure how long will take to come as ordered something thats out of stock so hope that doesn't hold up my order

 

[Anonymous]

Boy o boy, Russ Andrews has sold out despite the vocal non believers!

Well that's the Hi Fi bug for you.
Must make note to myself, placebo, its all in the mind and not in the ears.

 

[matengawhat]

sorry trevor the fuses are still in stock its the Noise-Reducing Shorties that are out of stock

 

[idc]

Having worked my way through the 95 responses, I conclude that having two electricians in the same room is going to cause sparks to fly

and that audiophile fuses are just a form of hifi pampering

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[Anonymous]

I'm off back to the beach

 

[matengawhat]

Mine were posted yesterday so should be at home waiting for me so will try tonight - strangely enough I enquired at Merlin Cables as to whether their fuses were all 13a in their mains leads and they emailed to suggest upgrading to their audiophile fuses. Seems to be a growing phenomenon

 

[kena]

I bought some "Bussman" audio fuses from flea bay ages ago because I wanted correct ratings for the items, used 5A in my CD player / 10A in my TV.

Can't say I noticed a difference but I must admit wasn't really expecting to but they are not dear so worth a punt. . My HI-CAP etc. need 13A fuses but they have RA cords anyway.