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After the initial inspection of the Philips SHP895 ( details can be viewed here ) and verified the driver is out of luck with repairing it, I decided to revive it with a different approach. From the Philips official site  we can easily get the specs for the headphones driver. Then I went on a hunt for a 50mm with a similar 32ohm rated headphones driver and decided to go with one that the seller claims it's Graphene coated. After a few weeks later, the driver arrived. The driver membrane is grey in color and it does feels thicker and much more solid compared to other lower end headphones drivers that I had worked on previously. With some tests using a multi meter, although the PVC coating for the cabling inside the headphones are falling off, the connections is still very solid. So no internal recabling is required. However the contact of the 3.5mm female connector soldering lead are heavily covered with oxidation and dirt. I will need to remove all existing bad solderi...

It is been months since the last review of the Dell Vostro 5471. Recently we found out that the Vostro LCD is showing some issue with the LED back light. Below images may be slightly blurry due to captured with an iPhone with low light condition. From the images we can easily see the issue is showing on the bottom of the screen. This issue usually caused by sub par LCD panel used by manufacturer and/or due to bad design of the LCD bezels. For our case, we had contacted Dell to address the issue but even with several panel and a bezel change, the issue persists. This issue only obvious when a black screen is displaying, it could be a bit distracting while watching a movie as usually there will be black space on the top and bottom of the display.