This guy is a MORON.... when audiophile borders on stupidity...

Joey_V
Joey_V Posts: 8,552
edited November 2006 in 2 Channel Audio
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205316

Dont ever... ever.... EVER... be like that guy. He's an idiot.

Clearly, the guy's an audiophile not for the musical enjoyment of it, but for the gear itself.

He spent $30,000 on wires and interconnects... for his crappy headphone system! Not only that, but he has thousands$$$ on stupid ERS paper! Doesnt he know that he could cause a fire??!!

Joey
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited November 2006
    He says that real life doesnt sound good... idiot.
    http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=199263

    Brilliant Pebbles.... he has to breathe in synchrony (read page 2)???!! What an idiot...
    http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=196008
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited November 2006
    God.. everytime I read his posts, I want to strangle him..

    Sorry if I posted gibberish, guys. But this audiophile (Patrick82) is amusing to say the least.

    Enjoy!
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited November 2006
    uh, pardon for sounding ignorant, but WTF is all that stuff that looks like the medical cling I used to bandage wounds from my ambulance days ?!?!?!?!

    isnt paper + electricical components = house fire?
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited November 2006
    ohskigod wrote:
    uh, pardon for sounding ignorant, but WTF is all that stuff that looks like the medical cling I used to bandage wounds from my ambulance days ?!?!?!?!

    isnt paper + electricical components = house fire?

    Some kind of an electromagnetic resistant paper thingy... he says it tightens the bass and is a 2,000,000/10 on his scale of sonic improvement.

    I swear, he's going to burn his whole system.

    This guy doesnt believe in the input/output plugs, so he solders the interconnects directly on the board!

    Thinking about him makes me want to slap him... I dont know why. I'm not usually an angry man.

    Joey :p
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited November 2006
    Joey_V wrote:
    This guy doesnt believe in the input/output plugs, so he solders the interconnects directly on the board!




    EEEEESH!!!!

    thats just having waaaaaay too much time on one's hands. I did note that this ERS paper's leading edge is apparently conductive. couple this with how much this guy used, makes me think he is playing with fire, pun intended :D

    if the edge of the paper is conductive, I guess it must have metal in it or something? ah hell, I know I aint using it anytime soon. I barely find motivation to remove my component covers to roll tubes for christ sakes :p
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited November 2006
    I'll alert the local fire dept
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited November 2006
    Looks like some audio bondage thing going on. wtf?
    He removed the fuses from his units and replaced them with wires.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited November 2006
    I think that a little bit of information in an ignorant guy (I doubt he has an electrical engineering degree) is a bad thing. This Partrick guy is certainly asking for it.

    Joey
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited November 2006
    My favorite post by Patrick...
    "Just because I didn't hear a difference after 15 minutes of testing doesn't mean there isn't one. This doesn't change anything, I still believe it makes a difference, I just can't hear it yet. Only a fool would say it is placebo without trying to fully understand it, that's what I try to do. 1 year testing is the absolute minimum.

    When I come to think of it, I always wanted to buy a tweak that does nothing because I was bored of always hearing night and day improvements and wanted it to stop. It's nocebo at its best! It was my cheapest tweak and cost me only $30, coincidence? I guess it gave me exactly what I wanted. Now it's time to find the truth..."

    This dude also said he uses ear plugs when going to sleep. This is some crazy stuff.

    I use ear plugs. But only if a live show is too loud and when I'm taking a shower. This really helps. I always get water in my ears, probably beacause I have long hair that runs half way down my back:).
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited November 2006
    Zero wrote:
    Joey,

    I am going to call for the forum to say a prayer on behalf of your flip ****. If you can find the time to entertain yourself with the musings of this said can-nut - you can get off that lazy rear of yours to unhook that Rogue. :mad: :p

    Damn you, Sean! :D

    I promise I will go "preamp-less" in the next day or two. By Tuesday, you will find my report on how a "preamp-less" system sounds like.

    Bah! :(
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited November 2006
    make sure your breathing pattern is accurate, or your preamp-less experience will suck. :)
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited November 2006
    Borders on stupidity? Borders? WTH man, This guy makes kim jong il look like the saneist guy on the planet. >$25K for a headphone rig to listen to trance? Tha sentence alone tells you all you need to know about his sanity.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • Gaara
    Gaara Posts: 2,415
    edited November 2006
    Last I checked ERS paper was supposed to be used in very small amounts, as you can very easily over do it. As for direct soldering instead of interconnects, I have heard of this before, actually Ric Schultz of EVS is famous for doing this. He made the EVS Ultimate Attenuators because preamps messed with the sounds to much for his liking. Then as the story goes even that affected the sound to much, so he would solder individual resistors inline. Every time he wanted to change the volume he would remove the resistor and solder a new one in.

    He still makes amps, and last time I checked had a funny way of doing binding posts. He believes that they color the sound to much, so he bypasses them so you can do speaker wire to speaker wire directly. The binding posts only works to clamp the two together.

    Of course this guy took these ideas and just went a little overboard.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited November 2006
    Looks like a rat's nest.

    It takes all types....I guess:rolleyes:
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited November 2006
    ND13 wrote:
    Looks like a rat's nest.

    It takes all types....I guess:rolleyes:

    Could somebody post the pic here?
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited November 2006
    The rat's nest
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited November 2006
    lol awesome!
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  • Normanality
    Normanality Posts: 297
    edited November 2006
    Well, doesn't Northern toilet paper lower the capacitance of your IC's by .00000000000000001pF if you wrap it all around? Sheesh. That guy needs a hobby. :rolleyes:
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  • jderdock
    jderdock Posts: 131
    edited November 2006
    are you kidding? Patrick is one of the reasons I wake up in the morning.

    He's obviously not "all there" which, while sad, is absolutely hilarious.
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited November 2006
    :eek: :eek: OMG!!! WTF is that?!?!?!??!?!?:confused::confused:

    Joey!!! Why did you post that!??!?!:rolleyes: :p:(

    Mike:(
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited November 2006
    Someone should let him know about the little things you put under your cables to lift them off the ground for sound improvement. ;)
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  • Jim Shearer
    Jim Shearer Posts: 369
    edited November 2006
    Thank you Joey, thank you very much! I needed a good laugh, and that beats just about everything in the joke thread. :)

    Cheers, Jim
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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited November 2006
    That guy is F1 with a closed head injury. Would be hilarious if it were satire, but I think the guy's for real, which, actually, is every bit as funny. Rock on, Pat, hope you get every last ounce out of your sound system.

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    DAC: Arcam irDac
    Source: iMac
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited November 2006
    DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!!! The elevator does NOT go all the way to the top!!!!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited November 2006
    Patrick is for real, he's been around for awhile. Sometimes there is a fine line between a real tweak and a 'moronic tweak', but all that really matters is that if somebody's widget makes their system sound better to them, then more power to 'em.

    However, I want to know more about that clear sausage casing that the wires are bundled inside of, and would it be better to put the ERS paper in the casing.

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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited November 2006
    I think this is Patrick, as he's testing the obvious benefits of "Brilliant Pebbles" - rocks that, when placed within the vicinity of audio equipment, greatly enhance the music that's reproduced; creating a more analog sound, with blacker blacks, while deepening and widening the soundstage. In this instance he's got them nicely centered between his ears, to avoid providing too much benefit to one ear and sonically neglecting the other.

    K1000.Brilliant.Pebbles.JPG

    Two Channel Setup:

    Speakers: Wharfedale Opus 2-3
    Integrated Amp: Krell S-300i
    DAC: Arcam irDac
    Source: iMac
    Remote Control: iPad Mini

    3.2 Home Theater Setup:

    Fronts: Klipsch RP-160M
    Center: Klipsch RP-160M
    Subwoofer: SVS PB12NSD (X 2)
    AVR: Yamaha Aventage RX-A2030
    Blu Ray: Sony BDP-S790
    TV Source: DirecTV Genie
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited November 2006
    I do like his rack stand.......that's a pretty cool design.......
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited November 2006
    Upon further review, this guy is quite possibly the funniest human being on the planet. It doesn't matter if he's completely earnest in his efforts, or if he's pulling a fantastic lampooning of the over-the-top audiophile. The video below is top-shelf comedy, imo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgsR4TiBwug

    Two Channel Setup:

    Speakers: Wharfedale Opus 2-3
    Integrated Amp: Krell S-300i
    DAC: Arcam irDac
    Source: iMac
    Remote Control: iPad Mini

    3.2 Home Theater Setup:

    Fronts: Klipsch RP-160M
    Center: Klipsch RP-160M
    Subwoofer: SVS PB12NSD (X 2)
    AVR: Yamaha Aventage RX-A2030
    Blu Ray: Sony BDP-S790
    TV Source: DirecTV Genie
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited November 2006
    That's F'cking hilarious. :)

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2006
    This Dude is a complete Nut Job.
    Testing
    Testing
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