'Audiophile' power fuses

[Chris Cables]

Personally, I think these are one of the most ludicrous snake-oil opportunities that exist in hifi and there are plenty of peddlers.
How can a relatively simple, single-component device that's designed to protect from over-voltage make such a claimed significant audible/sonic difference within a signal chain?

Yes, there are bad fuses and good fuses but deriving these electronic qualities into a resultant audio signal is pie in the sky afaiac. But that's just my own personal opinion and of course I could be wrong in that assumption so I'm open to receive proof that it does make a difference.
I couldn't resist reacting to such a claim made on FB recently.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/handcraftedaudio/permalink/3643338662623990/

What's the concensus here?

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

yep, snake oil fuses, cables, and chopstix to keep your speaker cables up off the floor. Everybody want's to make a buck off stupid people.

 

[J!m]

Maybe you could hear something if they were speaker protect fuses with audio passing through.

Otherwise, I want fuses from a fuse manufacturer.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Maybe you could hear something if they were speaker protect fuses with audio passing through.

Otherwise, I want fuses from a fuse manufacturer.

And I want pure unadulterated snake oil (minus the snake, I hate snakes).

 

[20tajk7]

With a crappy image generated by artificial stupidity, as usual nowadays on F'ass-book...

 

[wattsabundant]

I'll bet they don't publish any time/current curves.

 

[20tajk7]

The average F'ass-book use has no brain, got this on my newsfeed :
https://www.facebook.com/Colouringp...ayCXDfKAZbjPyyDcuA47e7M8YuzThZuifGZQQRxQVwgbl

Usual ai generated shit, from these original photos :


Those who can't recognize an ai generated image are potential buyers of snake oil things...

 

[Chris Cables]

I'll bet they don't publish any time/current curves.

I asked for proof that they make any difference to a signal and I got the stock answer 'If you don't like them you can always send them back'

Well, I offer a similar service for my cables, but at least I actually publish manufacturer specs and my own measurements for my cables such as capacitance (pF/m which makes a clearly perceptible difference to the resultant audible signal) as well as impedance and what level of (EMI/RFI) shielding they have.
Also, as synergy is a very real phenomenon I also offer a no-obligation loan-service so people can actually try them in their own systems, which all contributes to customers being able to make an 'informed' decision rather than just rely on someone else's spurious claims and expectation that you have to 'believe in the magic that will transform your listening experience!'.

 

[Chris Cables]

The average F'ass-book use has no brain, got this on my newsfeed :
https://www.facebook.com/Colouringp...ayCXDfKAZbjPyyDcuA47e7M8YuzThZuifGZQQRxQVwgbl
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Usual ai generated shit, from these original photos :
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Those who can't recognize an ai generated image are potential buyers of snake oil things...

They all have that 'stink eye' thing going on in the AI image.
Either one of them farted during that 'photo', or yeah, it's an instantly-recogniseable AI glitch.

 

[J!m]

Just look at the faceplate control legends and the “meters”…