I don't have a problem, in fact I found Patrick82's antics to be very revealing of audiophilia in general.

It seems that the general attitude to him is to politely regard him as a bit of a village fool. Why? On the broad spectrum of things he slots very neatly into the psychoacoustic phenomenon surrounding the entire audiophile business of cables, power conditions, and another not electronically...

  Quote:   Standard practice is to take a 0.1% offset as the plastic instability, although plastic deformation usually occurs before that.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering)   Quote: Hibbard et al, 1958. Strain is different from grain size.  ...

I don't know, actually. But I remember how people were distinguishing between different elemental platings on connectors, which amounted to distinguishing the difference in the Fermi surface of a material ... and this is probably masked by the amount of bending and twisting you do to a cable...

Cold working copper to 1% strain reduces conductivity by a factor of 100.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM   Don't need hi-fi to enjoy this, amazingly, surprisingly catchy.

Might give you an audible difference ... who knows?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814999012

All the MOTs I've heard here like to keep things proprietary, but honestly speaking the audio community is small enough that counterfeiting is pretty much impossible. There will always be people from China who are willing to take oscilloscopes and possibly electron microscopes to your chip if...

This thing is breaking the site, remove it.

Internals! We (I) want internals!

Any reason why you feel the M^3 is not up to scratch? If you really want to spend money, maybe you can try upgrading other parts of your signal chain (source)?

Quote:   A good faith effort isn't enough for our money, though.  

WalkGood: The first set of pics you linked showed (what seems to me) excellent soldering. Maybe they cleaned up their practice?

Quote: Well see, there's the rub. Patrick has the same attitude as you, but taken to the extreme. He has ditched electrically sound equipment (e.g. power line conditioners) for 20,000+ passive conditioners and cables, much as some of you would like to claim a 1000 cable can make as much...

Do any of you cable believers also subscribe to Patrick's investigations? Given that you both believe that cables, ERS paper, and passive conditioners can make a difference, I would be surprised and skeptical if you do not follow in the same pattern of thinking as he does.

"The amp portion features the older but still nice Texas Instruments TPA6120A2"   Are you implying that age makes this chip bad?

Quote: Anticlimatic cop out!   I'm assuming you meant something along the lines of yield or defer, instead of digress ; ).   Your writeup was interesting to read, sure, but how will it convince me to buy one? If I'm reading up your writeup, there's almost no factual information...

Get a job first.

Quote: Absolutely not. I don't mind doing it. But if I can't distinguish it, what does it prove?   a) I can't hear the flaws in a $800 product; the rolloff is justified and doesn't matter. But that implies some things:   b) If we can't distinguish such a difference, how will you...

Quote: Whoa, you're asking us to blind test these players when you won't blind test cables? I have never bothered to test my hearing, and I suppose one of these days I can try with those files. But calling us out on 'not blind testing' is pretty damning to your own philosophy.

Quote: Do people actually respect you?   In any case, just don't talk about things you don't know about (which apparently is a lot and includes roller coasters). You're only making yourself seem more ignorant, bigoted, and inane.

You don't have to change the forums back, but this is making me dizzy. Can you at least fix this?

Quote: Please stop talking about things you know nothing about. The roller coaster ride was designed entirely with physics and engineering; do you think they just looped some pieces of metal together and hoped that it would work? The maximum Gs and speed, along with acceleration and of...

Quote: I didn't mean to appear harsh, but to summarize, asking me to believe there is a difference outside of psychoacoustics is as annoying to me as (I presume) me asking you to believe there isn't one. It's like telling me my education is useless, and I guess me telling you your hearing...