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Fiio uBTR (μBTR)

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When it comes to budget audio equipment, the audio community should be quite familiar with Fiio brand. Fiio products often packs great specs with affordable pricing. The Fiio uBTR or μBTR or micro BTR is currently the most affordable Fiio Bluetooth audio receiver. But why Bluetooth audio receiver? There are multiple reasons to have a Bluetooth receiver and reasons to not have a Bluetooth receiver. But with the current trend of not having a 3.5mm headphones jack on the flagship phones, getting a Bluetooth receiver might be a great alternative from using a USB-C/Apple Lightning jack to 3.5mm headphones jack. The largest benefit of having a Bluetooth receiver instead of an adapter is you do not need to add extra wear to your phone's USB-C/Lightning port and it is easily replaceable or upgrade. Specifications Bluetooth Chip: CSR8645 Bluetooth Version: 4.1 Bluetooth Codec: SBC, aptX, AAC Amplifier Chip: TPA6132A2 Mic: Yes Charging: USB Type C NFC: Yes Headphones Out: 3....

Philips SHP895 Repair - RIP..

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This is a rather old headphones, it have more than 10 years of history and today, it came into my mailbox requesting to be refurbished. It's a open semi opened back headphones, the back gill is made from metal, some rust can be seen on it, I guess this is more of a budget headphones. The band made from plastic and there are some hairline cracks on it. This headphones sure does been through quite alot of stuffs. The owner claims that the drivers are not producing any more sounds and have been left aside for quite sometime. A simple continuity with a multi meter shows that the 3.5mm-2.5mm detachable cable still is good shape. There are some jiggling sounds when I am moving around with the headphones, which means there are something is not in the right place. This can be really bad. Time to open up the driver to get a quick look inside: Looks like a total disaster inside, the neodymium magnet fell off the driver unit and stick itself to the headphones back grill....

Dell Vostro 5471 Review - Dull, yet surprising in some ways

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Even though Dell is a widely well known PC manufacturer brand, the Vostro series is often being left out from the main spot light. For the past releases Dell laptop designs are mostly outdated and unappealing especially when it comes to the Vostro series. Tech specifications: Processor: Intel 8th Generation i5 8250U Memory: 4GB DDR4 2444Mhz Graphics: Intel UHD 620 + AMD Radeon 530 2GB GDDR5 1TB HDD 14" 1080p Anti Glare IPS Matte Display Year passes and here comes the Dell Vostro 5471. It seems that Dell product design team did put some effort to make this series looks better, at least from the outside. This time around, they are introducing 2 colors, the silver and rose gold. For this review we will be focusing on the Silver version. Out from the box it feels really luxurious-ish, for the outer display and bottom Silver enclosure is made from aluminium.  On the inside, the keyboard frame and palm rest is made from aluminium and it is anodized with mid n...