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Wow. These $39 fuses sure make a difference.

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phatbass said:
This stuff was being sold on the 'Bay a year or two ago. I kid you not.

I googled Peter Bell and you guys have GOTTA try these free sound improving techniques:

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WOW.

He is either just laughing his ass off at people who actually believe and do what he says, or he is performing some "psychological experiment" in order to determine the absolute limits of human stupidity, while laughing his ass of course while he's at it.
Now if he believes it, then it's another story...
 
#83
Dear [insert deity of choice here], that's some of the stupidest [insert expletive of choice here] I've ever read.

"Human beings do not like right angles..."

Has he ever talked to an engineer? Or a construction worker? Or an architect? Or a manufacturer? Or ANYONE who makes/builds/designs something? They LOVE right angles. :)
 
#85
Mark Reccord said:
I'm actually quite familiar with these. My former boss swore they made a difference and included them with our CD-player and amplifier. Apparently the direction you mount them in makes a difference as well. I did thorough listening tests and I was never able to discern a difference. One day he had a bunch of local audiophiles in to audition them. That morning, we had a bit of a falling out, so when he went out to lunch, I put the amp and CDP on the bench and hardwire bypassed all of the fuseholders out of spite. When the guys came in, they spent several hours auditioning various combinations of fuses and going on at length about the huge differences between them and regular fuses; between the various current values and in the direction they were installed. I never did tell them that they were listening to the same thing every time. :ninja:
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YOU"RE MY HERO!!
 
#88
Since the photos shown on Isocleanpower's web site show a UL Mark on the box of "Audio Grade Fuses", I wrote to them to ask for their UL file number to try to look them up.

Their response was that they didn't know what their UL file number is, but they told me that the fuses are made by Bel Fuse.

I looked on Bel Fuse's web site and didn't see any Audio Grade fuses and none of their slo-blow glass fuses are available with gold caps. Either they're specials or it's nonsense...
 
#89
BillyB_from_LZ said:
I looked on Bel Fuse's web site and didn't see any Audio Grade fuses and none of their slo-blow glass fuses are available with gold caps. Either they're specials or it's nonsense...
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Most likely they're standard fuses save for the packaging and the BS. A case could be made for an audio grade fuse if it's fusing the speaker, as it would then be in the signal path and could have an audible effect. But fuses are seldom used with speakers anyway, as they don't work very well there. As far as their effect on the sound of the amp in the power line: baloney. But as is always the case engineers who actually know how amplifiers work will be hooted down, while suckers... sorry, I meant uninformed consumers... who have no clue how amps work will insist that they can hear the unhearable. Whatever, it's their money. This way to The Great Egress. :rolleyes:
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public". I wish it was me that came up with that one, but it was someone else. Possibly Will Rogers or Mark Twain. If any of y'all know for sure, let us know.

M. M.
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#91
billfitzmaurice said:
Most likely they're standard fuses save for the packaging and the BS. A case could be made for an audio grade fuse if it's fusing the speaker, as it would then be in the signal path and could have an audible effect. But fuses are seldom used with speakers anyway, as they don't work very well there. As far as their effect on the sound of the amp in the power line: baloney. But as is always the case engineers who actually know how amplifiers work will be hooted down, while suckers... sorry, I meant uninformed consumers... who have no clue how amps work will insist that they can hear the unhearable. Whatever, it's their money. This way to The Great Egress. :rolleyes:
H.L. Mencken
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Piffle. These sound great if you use them properly.

First, you need two of them. One won't do the job.
I found with some experimentation that they work best
when I installed them by inserting one in each ear.

My rig sounds great now!



PS Mr Fitzmaurice turned me on to this little item a
few years back. Just thought I would post the link as
a few people expressed their interest. :p


Bill Fitzmaurice said:
And you can pay quite a bit more than 100 bucks

If P.T. Barnum was alive today he'd probably be selling wire. Have you heard about the $150 wall outlet? This is not a joke, it really exists and people are buying them. When I first saw them I assumed the price was for a box of ten. It isn't.
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#92
*****
The new ISOCLEAN POWER Fuse is 24K gold plated. Not only it's metallic holder has been specially treated, each and every fuse has also been accurately measured and checked in order to bring your equipment to the highest standard.
*****

Know how you "check" a fuse?

:D
 
#93
doctorus said:
YOU"RE MY HERO!!
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:D

I do what I can. 4 years of working in the industry allowed me to gain a lot of insight into the audiophile psyche, sometimes through sneaky means like that... :hiding:

What I don't get is that these guys will spend thousands on fancy cables with dubious results and not spend a cent on room treatment which is something with very tangible and often very startling results. The single most important thing in a hifi system is the room and it's so often overlooked.
 
#94
Aligning the slots in screw heads.

Align the slots in all screw heads so that the slots are parallel to the earth's surface. ALL screws - screws fastening light switches to the wall, screws fastening AC power sockets to the wall, screws fastening shelves to the wall etc. Listen to some music for a short time and then move any of the screw slots away from being parallel to the earth's surface and see if you can listen to the same music with the same pleasure !!


One of Mr.Belt's free tips.

I can't wait to align all my screws on all my basses,amps & cabinets,etc.
 
#97
JimmyM said:
So you don't think it would make your 10 SVT 4 Pros and your 40 810's sound better?

:D :hiding:
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*** James, If I could figure out where to stuff them suckers I'm sure it would help something... I am collecting new fangled schemes in warehouses here. When I am ready to take over the world, I will just ship them for free to everybody, flooding the market with them. Sort of like what is happening with dollar bills right now. Life as we now know it will cease.

**** VERY Serious Note... You guys know how a fuse werx right? It utilizes its own internal resistance to generate heat. As the current flow increases to the point of its limit the thing melts... As the fuse turns WHITE HOT its resistance actually rises to infinity and the thing burns out.

The FUSE has resistance and LIMITS current in its own way, increasing distortion.

A circuit breaker senses the current flow through the device without generating heat through resistance and when it reaches the limit it trips the device.

AN AUDIOPHILE FUSE would be a circuit breaker...

BOB
 
#100
pagiatis said:
WOW.

He is either just laughing his ass off at people who actually believe and do what he says, or he is performing some "psychological experiment" in order to determine the absolute limits of human stupidity, while laughing his ass of course while he's at it.
Now if he believes it, then it's another story...
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I think we've already determined the absolute limits of human stupidity, after witnessing you guys trying to out-stupid yourselves in this thread. I don't know where to begin, trying to point out all the stupidity of your collective comments on PWB. To begin with, its painfully obvious you don't know the first thing about the man. Yet you hold yourself up as some sort of expert on Belt, because some other idiot mentioned him in passing, and maybe you went so far as checking out their website.

Not only does Mr. Belt believe everything you read (which you probably don't have the means to understand anyway), but over 1,000 audiophiles participating in a blind test of the man's products are believers as well; with 75% of them having heard differences from Mr. Belt's products.

Probably the stupidest part is: the arrogance of all your comments, the unflinching confidence that you're right, when you were presented with a host of free ideas, and haven't bothered to try a single one. Congratulations, you're the equivalent of a 21st century caveman.

MYSTIC BOO:

>>Dear [insert deity of choice here], that's some of the stupidest [insert expletive of choice here] I've ever read.<<
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Great. Now you know how I feel, reading your [insert expletive of choice here].

>>"Human beings do not like right angles..."

Has he ever talked to an engineer? Or a construction worker? Or an architect? Or a manufacturer? Or ANYONE who makes/builds/designs something? They LOVE right angles. <<

Ok, so you can't even come close to figuring out what he means by that, and you think you're clever debunking your own stupid misconstruction. WHAT a surprise. I know this is gonna be hard for you, but I'll try to help you along...

"Human beings do not like right angles..." doesn't mean they don't like _using_ right angles, Cico. Of course they do. It means that on a level we are not necessarily conscious of, we react poorly to right angles. Why? This is where it gets complicated, and none of you have even begun to try to understand the reasoning, or shown you're even capable of doing so... Because there are no right angles found in nature. We are creatures of evolution. Although we have evolved to handle things like right angles, and many other unnatural objects in our environment, on another lower level, we're not dealing with that properly, and are stressed by the presence of these objects. The stresses in turn lower our ability to hear, and other senses.

I realize none of the PWB hypotheses makes any sense to closed-minded idiots, but then, little does, that wasn't taught in elementary school. Of course you don't have to understand or even believe the theories for the products to work. You do however, have to try them.

Now.... which of you silly hombres here have actually done that? I'd like to hear all about what you tried and how you installed the tweak. The ironic thing about all this is... as reactionary as you all are to these devices, all of you, without exception, could stand to benefit from them. They are the only tweaks I know of that could improve the sound quality of a guitar, for example.
 
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