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24 Mar, 2023
'Audiophile' quality sound CD
Truly excellent recordings of CrossHarbour. They're a very talented group of musicians and the sound from this CD does them justice.
06 Mar, 2010
Fujitsu LIFEBOOK E7010 buying & maintenance tips
2 of 2 found this helpful The E7010 is a good basic laptop. Its construction is not quite as 'solid' as the T-series ThinkPads of this World but it can be found on eBay for considerably less money than many other 'quality' brands. Fujitsu Siemens offer perfectly adequate technical support, driver downloads and documentation via 'support.ts.fujitsu.com' but only for Windows 2000 and XP. There is also a very good hardware diagnostics tool for the E7010 but at the time of writing (March 2010) I can't find it on the Fujitsu support website anymore. Doubtless it can be tracked down via Google.
A few tips regarding buying and maintaining the E7010.
(1) The power socket on the back of the laptop isn't very well designed and can become partly or wholly detached from the mainboard. Watch out for an overheating AC adaptor plug if it is partly detached and arcing. This is a fairly expensive fault to fix as nearly the entire laptop needs to be dismantled to replace the part. A way round this is to buy a port replicator which has its own power inlet. You get a couple of extra USB ports thrown in too. These can be had for £8 or less via eBay at present.
(2) Many laptops on eBay come without the IDE HDD. You need an adaptor to be able to plug a replacement one into the mainboard of the E7010. The adaptor is a standard item for many types of laptop e.g. the Dell Inspiron 5100 and HP Omnibook 900 series. Search for 'E7010 ide hdd adaptor' on Google to see what is compatible. This part can be bought on eBay for £3 or even less. However, the rest of the 'caddy' (in the case of the E7010, a piece of plastic which connects the other end of the HDD to the laptop casing) is hard to come by. It's not actually needed for the HDD to function - the HDD just needs to be held in place with some form of rubber strips and tape or similar. It might not look pretty or be overly robust but it will do the job.
(3) The internal ribbon cable connecting the LCD screen to the mainboard can become loose at either end. This gives rise to garbled video output. There are plenty of generic guides on how to rectify this or even replace the entire LCD. Try YouTube and search for 'How to replace your damaged notebook or laptop lcd screen'. If the cable is loose at the LCD end, it takes a while to work out exactly how the screen is assembled but if I can do it most technically minded people should be fine too. I'm afraid I've not been able to track down a true service manual so can't point you at a parts list to help.
(3) AC power adaptors and replacement batteries are easy to come by. I bought an AC adaptor on eBay for only £6.99 a few days back - does the job nicely.
(4) Not all E7010s have built in wireless. But add on cards are easy enough to come by. I've used both BT Voyager 1065 and an Edimax EW-7108PCg on an E7010 with no problems.
So, the E7010 is a cheap to buy Windows 2000/XP laptop, as easy as most to maintain and more than adequate for normal surfing and 'Office' type use. It will even do a decent job of running basic games (32MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics).
13 Nov, 2009
Denon DCD-625 CD Player
2 of 2 found this helpful The Denon DCD-625 dates back to the mid 1990s as a replacement for the DCD-615. It had a RRP of £199.99 back then. It has a coax digital output so can be used with an external DAC. There are very few actual reviews of it to be found on the Internet. However, the Gramophone magazine archive (Aug 1995) quotes the following.
The new model maintains Denon's commitment to the multibit principle and features dual Burr-Brown D/A converters working in tandem with Denon's own 20-bit, eight-times oversampling Lambda digital filters. The 625 features a new fascia design and has a headphones output with adjacent level control. A new digital servo circuit is used to control the laser assembly and the player boasts an improved signal-to noise ratio of 107dB. Full remote control is provided, including 20 track programming and volume adjustment via a 12-step digital attenuator, and there are various convenience features such as Auto Edit, Auto Space and Synchro Record (a feature which works in conjunction with Denon cassette decks).
I've found the DCD-625 to be a very good quality deck which sounds very appealing on its own. Fed through a Beresford TC-7510 DAC it sounds excellent, giving more expensive models I own (Pioneer PD-S705 and Marantz CD6000 OSE) a true run for their money. Thoroughly recommended.