I am a firm believer in I know what I know thru trial and error, and hands on experience.
Until you have done the experiment yourself, you really don't know what you know.
I see that I wasn't the only audio fool to replace stock fuses .
I also never had anything explode or catch fire or need repairs because I ran without a fuse.
I don't condone that.
You don't have to do that, now that there are alternatives to cheap stock fuses.
What I did learn from Peter Aczill was that fuses degrade the sound.
He said they did. I wanted to know if what he said was true or not.
It was easy to replicate his experiment, albeit with some trepidation.
I tried replacing fuses, and indeed he was correct.
Fuses degraded the sound.
Replacing them with chunks of wire worked for me.
The sound was cleaner, less diffuse, more solid , sonics over safety got the better of me.
Then I started to hear about upgraded fuses.
I was already a convert based on my and Aczill's similar experiences with fuses.
So I gave them a try.
The sound was better than a stock fuse, not quite as good as a chunk or wire or soldered bypass,but now I had protection.
If Peter was wrong about fuses, then is he also wrong about speaker wire ?
If you find him credible because his later views on all things esoteric mesh with your own,then consider what happened to change his perspective on all things audio.
It had to do with the audio community not heaping praise on his Fourier speakers.
That's just speculation on my part, but it wasn't long after that he became the Audio Critic myth debunker, and found he had a following of readers who were into the whole evil snake oil conspiracy mind set.
He had found a new audience.
Audiophiles who couldn't afford the stuff featured in Tas or Stereophile and who were resentful that they couldn't enjoy the stuff the writers were praising.
So if you can't join them then do what you can to discredit them as shills.
Suspect all reviews because they were bought and paid for.
Forget about improving the quality of your sound altogether.
Your ears are just fooling you, a wire is a wire and cheap is the way to go.
Only fools part with their hard earned cash spending it on speaker wires or power cords.
The whole hobby went from " here's a tip to get better sound" to " beware of snake oil, it's everywhere"
Aczill became fixated on debunking all things costly and related to the High End community that had abandoned him.
I will be forever grateful to the earlier Audio Critic reviews that turned me onto the relationship that fuses have with our gear.
The old (younger) Peter heard what they did, and was the first that I know of to even mention that a fuse can alter the sonics of the gear it's placed in.
But he didn't just speculate whether fuses can or can't make a difference.
He walked the walk and talked the talk.
He did the experiment for himself, and drew his conclusions based on what his ears were telling him.
He didn't think his ears were fooling him into believing an expensive(?) upgraded fuse made a difference,just to justify the expense.
He didn't believe that a fuse couldn't make any difference and dismiss it based on the knowledge of those who know.
He wanted to know for himself, and there's only one way to do that.