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  1. What did you do today?

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    Ouch. Sounds like a nightmare all around. That must be a very difficult part of being a doctor.

    Yes and no. It's very sad and quite tough when you face the moment of realizing nothing else can be done, and telling so to the relatives or the own patient. But it also has a good part which is reminding you how damn lucky you are. Kinda makes you appreciate better what you have and enjoying it while you have it.

    Who knows, maybe this little girl can go through a few weeks more and in the meanwhile a kidney for her arises.

  3. Formosa guitars?

    in Miscellaneous

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    Couldn't find the exact match, the most likely candidates are the 4101-NT or the 4101-SPL-NT Look very nice, with rosewood fretboard, sapelli sides and back... one seems a dreadnought with spruce top and the other a classic shape all in sapelli (Entandrophragma cylindricum, whatever it is in English), so I was wrong in my reference coding guess.

    I hope she likes the guitar ;)

  6. Formosa guitars?

    in Miscellaneous

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    I think it should be a Gold Formosa. Those guitars are manufactured in Taiwan. Have been searching their website but couldn't find the 4104 model, though they have others being quite close like 4101 and 4102. Not sure about their model coding, but seems 41xx are dreadnoughts.

    Maybe you can contact them and asking about it.

  7. Dealing with Redbook Pre-Emphasis

    in Music

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    The pre-emphasis was something they designed to "prevent" a damage to the high frequencies for the use of brick wall filters in the early RBCD era. It's just EQ and can be reverted by applying the same curve as it's done for the RIAA curve in vinyl. I read somewhere that the EQ curve comes from applying a time constant of 15/50 μS depending on frequency. In fact I've found the source of that and I post here what someone who seems knowledgeable wrote about it:

    In a nutshell: to generate the correct target 15/50

  8. slow forum

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    Hey, that castle is in Manzanares el Real, a village at about 40 miles from Madrid. I used to spend the summer holidays there with my grand parents when I was a child. World is damn small hahahaha. Funnily enough in that town and the mountains around some Hollywood movies were produced. I think Charlton Heston's "El Cid" was filmed over there. :rolleyes:

  9. Need some help please

    in Off Topic

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    Hi Everybody,

    Just got home from four days in the hospital. I had a hemothorax too and needed a chest tube. I'll write a more detailed post once the animals get their attention.

    Thanks again to everybody for the help you gave me. It all helped a lot.

    :palm: Glad to know you received attention in time. Get better :)

  12. Sony XA-5400ES

    in Home Source Components

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    Cool, I'd like knowing your thoughts about the CD/SACD performance and also as a transport. If it made a good CD transport I could use it instead of the CEC and getting SACD playback as a bonus. Not a big fan of SACD myself, but I have the hopes it's just because I haven't found a good enough player yet. I could start collecting the Hoffman remasters of Blue Note ;D

  21. Group Build: Dynafet

    in Do It Yourself

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    I have one question for the knowledgeable. I have a Gilmore Reference Balanced, which if I understood well is a balanced Dynalo aka Dynamid, with external power supply. The Dynafet is more or less based in the Dynahi/Dynamight so it would have higher power requirements than the Dynalo, however, would my PS be enough to drive the Dynafet? For me it would be great since would allow me to use the same PS for both amps just by swapping the PS umbilical.

  22. Sony XA-5400ES

    in Home Source Components

    Posted

    Thanks for the comment Kevin. It'd be great knowing your opinion about its sound over the analogue outputs, either SE or balanced, which is the only use I'd give to it. BTW, does it need to be plugged into a TV screen to decide if you want it to play the SACD or CD layer in a disc, or choosing your preferred DSD output? This is important, I wouldn't have it connected into the TV, so not having to tell the thing to read the 2ch SACD layer every time would be great.

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