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Re: too much current equals heat. a fuse is designed to stop the flow-

"so you're saying that if I get a set of monster amps that can dish out 200amps of current, I can drop my fuses and keep blasting the tunes at will?"

A non sequitur; you could not use a 200A amplifier in your home.

Even so - if you could actually use such a thing, and it could be physically connected to your Maggies, there's no reason your fuses would blow if you did not try to exceed reasonable listening levels. Power, in and of itself, is not the danger.

"What is it that does in fact blow a fuse?"

A list:

- shorts
- frequency oscillations
- current leakage from AC
- faulty output or power transformers
- poorly performed or questionable circuit modifications

Notice that most, if not all of these, would be coming from failures or problems in your amplification circuit.

"I'm considering to get rid of that entire fuse thing on my 3.5Rs"

Unwise, IMHO. I realize that some Maggie owners do this in a quest for better sound, but I think it is foolish.

"but I have blown a fuse even with my Odyssey monos at a passage where the music (acoustic guitar duo) ended, and some massive aduience applause kicked in. That was not a square wave unless you consider those amps low current."

After looking at Odyssey Audio's published specs, I would say their claims of current output are wildly overstated. FYI I have never blown a fuse on my 3.5Rs despite driving them to very high listening levels. My current amp is a Bryston 4B NRB.

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