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Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro Repair

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Today for in our work station, we have an old top of the line Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro headphones. This headphones is used to be the flagship model of the Beyerdynamic DT line up, way before Beyerdynamic introduce their Tesla drivers. Before working on the headphones, I had a test drive with it with my desktop setup. This headphones have a great soundstage and tons of lows but I personally don't quite like it's spiking mid-highs though. One might describe it as a well improved DT770 pro. Due to it's old age, it's 3.5mm connector gold plating had worn off and the internal connection is loose. To fix this, we will need to replace the 3.5mm connector. After stripping the cable PVC sleeve we can see it has 3 internal wiring and this reminds me that amazingly at this price point, Beyerdynamic opt to use cables that have PVC coating for the internal wiring which most headphones at this price or even higher doesn't have this. The internal wiring is colored as ...

Dell Vostro 5481 Review

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Historically speaking, Dell hasn't really putting much effort to their design on their machines especially for the lower end line up. The flagship XPS lineup looks great and performs great, but for the other series like the Inspiron and the Vostro lineup design is usually quite dull. During the late 2018, Dell had launched a few new models to the Inspiron and Vostro lineup and this time around, it seems that Dell had really put some effort to make these 2 series looks way better than the last model, especially for the Vostro 5481 . Tech Specification 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-8265U Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.9 GHz, 4 cores) (Whiskey Lake) 4GB DDR4 2666Mhz RAM NVIDIA® GeForce® MX130 with 2GB GDDR5 graphics memory 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA Hard Drive 14.0-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-glare LED Backlight Non-touch Narrow Border IPS Display TPM 2.0 Overall the specs for this model is pretty standard for a mid-low tier machine. It is nice to see that Dell ...