deepak

Laine would appreciate HF-1 vs MS2i comparison if you could do one. Thanks.

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I've only tried it with my Sennheiser HD580, it gets loud but it sounds like crap.

It's a line out, not an actual headphone amp.

Yup that's correct. The M-Audio drivers are extremely simple, and IIRC what Steve Nugent of Empirical Audio based his drivers off on the old Off-Ramps. But the driverless soundcards are very nice. The only reason I have the E-MU0404 USB is because I use it as a DAC/headphone amp at work.

I have both the E-MU0404 USB and M-Audio Transit. The Transit has flawless, rock solid, simple drivers with bit perfect without having to use ASIO. The E-MU has more complex drivers, and requires some monkying to get bit perfect working, but it has a lot more features compared to the Transit. I haven't compared the two side by side to see which sounds better.

Frack yeah indeed! Baltar + Gaita 2008 pres/vice

Baltar 4 life crew checking in.

To add, I could do it with 45s, since the EML stuff is still in production and a pair of the 45-mesh tubes is well in my price range. if anyone was curious I believe Mr. Shadow is having a friend build him a 45 tube amp for his W11JPN.

aerius any updates?

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This isn't the first thread you've done this in. Which was the other one? speaker amps?

Back to the Future Part III

I know what you mean... But all the bling bling is going into my tube amp

What you need is a crentist [me=jpak]begins The Office countdown[/me]

Maybe if someone sent me a loaner and I liked what I heard I was actually digging the HD650 the last time I heard them on my M^3, so it might be the HD580 that goes. On that modest setup the differences between the 580 & 650 weren't huge. But I'm skeptical if I'd even be able to hear cable differences since the headphones will be used straight out of an E-MU0404 USB when I'm at the hospital.

Always an option. Other than meet settings I haven't heard any of the aftermarket Sennheiser cables. Who knows it might sound good on my HD580.

Sennheiser HD650 with Cardas. Damn that postjack edit: add purk and mulveling to the guilty party list as well

I agree. So thin it doesn't even look like there's enough room for the 1/8" connection. Jay have you tried watching video on it yet?

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I normally hate this cat crap, but this is sort of funny

I think the American hospitals get to keep a bit more, which goes towards all their usual expenses. Here's a Canadian mishap that happened in the last two years, which one of my dad's old colleague's told him about. A girl came into the hospital he used to work at with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, a fairly serious emergency case especially if there is significant blood loss. This hospital was in a town just outside Edmonton, I'll have to ask about its catchment area's population. The surgery attending on call couldn't be reached, and apparently for its catchment area there should have been more surgeons (or preferably ObGyn docs available). So she wasn't able to have emergency lap. surgery performed and instead all they were able to do was stabilize her and try and transfer her to Edmonton. I believe she spent roughly an hour or so being stabilized (group/cross match, transfusion, etc). She died before getting to the Edmonton hospital. The reason this happened was because of physician shortage, apparently a hospital that size should have had someone that was able to do the surgery. An American hospital of that size would have probably had at least few G.S. attendings and a few ObGyn attendings. I highly doubt if this happened at a similar hospital in the US this girl would have died. Of course if she was treated in the US I'm sure her insurance premium would have went up quite a bit, but she'd have lived to talk about it \ But philodox is right, physicians have more incentive to be in the US. Salaries are considerably higher, tax brackets at those levels are much lower than Canada, physician health care for themselves and the rest of their family is usually amongst the best, etc, etc. So yes I am biased towards the American system (just as you guys are biased towards Canada's), but I feel somewhat less because I know a lot about both systems. But IMO the American health care system is much better. And I feel this needs to be emphasized: if you can NOT afford health care in the US a hospital (every single hospital that I know of) will not turn you away. Its built into their margins to treat these patients. It's not advertised for obvious reasons.

Yup I agree. But the steps that are being taken are going at a snails pace. This has been a problem in Canada for as long as I can remember. And this isn't just recent knowledge since I'm in the residency phase, my dad has told me quite a bit about the health care system from his perspective and other Canadian physicians.

The government has to pay $80000 CAD to a hospital for each residency position every year. They probably pay the resident $50-55k (my best guess) and keep the rest. That might have something to do with it. In the US the government pays $100000 USD to a hospital for each residency position every year. The resident (depending on their year and they get a bonus if they're somewhere like NYC for extra living expenses) sees about $50-55k of that. And there are no shortages of residency positions here, clearly the US government and its tax dollars is doing something right here.

When I get home I could go into way more detail. I have a PDF of Canadian vs US residency positions and I know about all the problems my Canadian friends had getting residencies in their own country. Canada is basically closed borders for any IMG (international medical grads) for anything other than family practice which is just silly. Or maybe it isn't? But if it's a pain in the ass for Canadian Med grads to get their residency of choice, that shows a huge flaw in the junior physician pyramid right there. Considering world leading hospitals like Cleveland Clinic, the Harvard teaching hospitals, all Ivy League hospitals (except for 1) all accept IMG applicants. And have had residents at their hospitals take chief resident positions and go on to become excellent doctors in all fields of medicine and surgery.