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

[Joey_V]

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

[Joey_V]

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

[Joey_V]

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!

[ohskigod]

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?

[Joey_V]

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

[ohskigod]

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

[Fireman32]

I'll alert the local fire dept

[organ]

Looks like some audio bondage thing going on. wtf?
He removed the fuses from his units and replaced them with wires.

[Joey_V]

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

[organ]

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:).

[Zero]

Joey,

I am going to call for the forum to say a prayer on behalf of your flip ass. 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. :p

[Joey_V]

Joey,

I am going to call for the forum to say a prayer on behalf of your flip ass. 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. :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! :(

[Ricardo]

make sure your breathing pattern is accurate, or your preamp-less experience will suck. :)

[jdhdiggs]

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.

[Gaara]

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.

[ND13]

Looks like a rat's nest.

It takes all types....I guess

[PolkThug]

Looks like a rat's nest.

It takes all types....I guess

Could somebody post the pic here?

[ND13]

The rat's nest

[PolkThug]

lol awesome!

[Normanality]

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.

[jderdock]

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.

[MikeC78]

OMG!!! WTF is that?!?!?!??!?!?

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

Mike:(

[fireshoes]

Someone should let him know about the little things you put under your cables to lift them off the ground for sound improvement. ;)

[Jim Shearer]

Thank you Joey, thank you very much! I needed a good laugh, and that beats just about everything in the joke thread. :)

Cheers, Jim

[Loud & Clear]

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.

[cfrizz]

DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!!! The elevator does NOT go all the way to the top!!!!

[PolkThug]

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.

[Loud & Clear]

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.

[brettw22]

I do like his rack stand.......that's a pretty cool design.......

[Loud & Clear]

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