A MiniDisc Player for £10 - Will it work? What’s the catch?

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If you're shopping for a used MD personal stereo - perhaps take a look at the players as well as recorders, but keep an eye on what’s bundled.
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@evobatman 4 жыл бұрын

Favorite parts: -Brasso cleaning -Anticipating the unwrapping of the lot

@travisash8180 4 жыл бұрын

You can shine up your buttons with Brasso

@MPPelli 4 жыл бұрын

I actually paused the video at 9:05 and ordered some Brasso wadding.

@travisash8180 4 жыл бұрын

@@MPPelli You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths. But I doubt if they'll have any in.

@FreihEitner 4 жыл бұрын

@@MPPelli As soon as I saw that, I started thinking what I might have which could use a Brasso buffing.

@steviebboy69 4 жыл бұрын

@@travisash8180 I have used the liquid Brasso on old Bakelite Valve radio sets and it works wonders on those.

@adam850 4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the MD player pile roundup!

@jw4321 4 жыл бұрын

Adam Egan me too

@ZTK-RC 4 жыл бұрын

@@jw4321 count me in as well

@sprint955st 4 жыл бұрын

And me!

@polygondwanaland8390 4 жыл бұрын

This video is actually about Brasso fixing old scratched plastic.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing that BRASSO reminded me of being in the military, and the countless times I used it to shine the buckles on my belts...👍👍

@dopiaza2006 3 жыл бұрын

I bet that player smells lovely now though!

@concretestars 3 жыл бұрын

R/oddlysatisfying

@davefink2326 4 жыл бұрын

we're told the word nostalgia comes from a Greek phrase meaning "the pain of returning to an old wound." 23 years ago I was in charge of Sony's US mini disc sales training and merchandising. Corporate policy forbade us from openly discussing or promoting Minidisc's ability to digitally copy compact discs. the recording ability was downplayed, and we had to feature pre-recorded minidisc in all of our advertising and training materials. It was ugly and muddled, and explains why Minidisc never really took off in the United States the way it did in Japan and the UK.

@Safetytrousers 4 жыл бұрын

nóstos: "homecoming", álgos: "pain"/"ache"

@michaelt8682 4 жыл бұрын

i wouldnt say it took off in the uk. they were all the rage for about 3 months in 2003

@chaos.corner 4 жыл бұрын

mp3 players were already on the rise and the US had much better internet access than elsewhere. I'm not sure that had anything to do with it but it seems like it might. In addition, Americans do more travelling with cars where UK and Japan are a lot more pedestrian orientated.

@OldProVidios 4 жыл бұрын

Sony had a history of crazy things. Umatic VTRs, the industrial line had lower resolution than the broadcast line. They used the same internal boards. A tech would convert the type 5s to better quality by REMOVING a resistor on one of the boards. Sony would purposely hobble equipment. I had a Betamax machine that would not play/record speed 1. Remove the front cover and you can then move the speed switch into the Speed 1 mode. It was simply the bezel holding back the switch that removed the feature. I have a long story of successfully convincing Sony engineers to keep a feature/bug in their prototype.

@mattcintosh2 4 жыл бұрын

@@chaos.corner I came from a small town where things like MD were pretty much unheard of. I started college in '99 and a few of us already had CD burners (Someone was passing around a burned CD in high school sometime in 1997-98 and we thought it was weird). The first year people generally were using regular CDs and the occasional burned one. The second year or so, I remember best buy selling some 32 or 64MB MP3 players (which I thought were kind of pointless as they couldn't even hold a full CD), and a guy in the dorm had an archos jukebox with a 5 or 6GB HDD. That seemed to be the future.

@averageenthusiast5689 4 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr Techmoan. I blame you for my MiniDisc addiction. You are solely responsible for all the financial expenses involved with such an addiction. I would like to take a moment to say....Thank you!! I currently own two MD decks, a MDS-JE520 and a JE480. Two portables, a MZ-N707 and a N420D. Completely pointless in this day and age but I enjoy them. Always a conversation starter when you pull out a MD player and discs on an airplane (and saves my smartphone battery). Looking forward to the MD lot video(s).

@badgastein2 4 жыл бұрын

Not useless at all - great for recording vinyl albums and then creating track breaks so your old albums can then be transferred to a server or recorded onto CD......

@RudalPL 4 жыл бұрын

Back at home in Poland I have MJ-D508 and in the UK I have MDS - JB920 and I always take at least a couple of mini discs with me when I travel between...

@MrMediator24 4 жыл бұрын

Madman and his Minidisks...M&Ms!

@scottplumer3668 4 жыл бұрын

I have a JE520 as well!

@deanchur 4 жыл бұрын

Is it Hi-MD? My base level MZNH600 still beats any smartphone for sound quality

@pipiferry 4 жыл бұрын

Love the ending: 10:12 in the moment of madness I seem to have bid on and won a massive bundle of random minidisc players

@ludekstipal6120 4 жыл бұрын

This is what Absinth does to a man browsing e-bay late at night...

@pbsa1979 4 жыл бұрын

We all have those "moments". Wife couldn't cope anymore and five years ago asked me to make a choice - I do miss her... Sometimes. Although I miss proper gum stick batteries much more. All my Sony gear uses them and replacements don't last long... Great video as always, cheers 🍻

@CalvinsWorldNews 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that was the same night as he had a lot to drink, as mentioned in the 'nighttime blood oxygen reader' video from a week or two back

@mattb4721 4 жыл бұрын

I guess the longer the lockdown goes on, the more adventurous his ebay-bids are gonna get. Looking forward to the video about the household nuclear reactor in June.

@kushith 4 жыл бұрын

“Massive Bundle of Random” is a cool band name

@richardk.7700 4 жыл бұрын

Back in 1997 I bought my first portable Sony MiniDisc recorder. I was so blown away by the track-jumping technology that I truly thought it would be the next portable playback medium to replace the compact cassette. Then along came MP3 players and cell phones. Now I enjoy my own MiniDiscs at home all alone.

@SgtLoth 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but MiniDiscs look more futuristic than what we have now

@madeinuk01 4 жыл бұрын

so true, they have that star trek imagery more so than a usb thumbdrive

@oneaburns 4 жыл бұрын

SgtLoth I’ve always thought the same. I bought one when they were on the way out but I thought they were so cool. The model I had would record files at 4x speed...so a 4 minute song took 1 minute to record. Basically I’d make a playlist and set it to record and walk away.

@alexspalding4945 4 жыл бұрын

I know right ?? I just wanna use them because they seem so damn cool.

@kelakakku 4 жыл бұрын

A micro sd card the size of a finger nail that can hold 512GB doesn't look futuristic?

@kelakakku 4 жыл бұрын

@@olegknowsbest4971 You are living in 2020, right?

@ancientflounder 4 жыл бұрын

Unwrapping a bunch of MD players? That sounds like a fun afternoon to me!

@jero37 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they're such a delightful form of physical media!

@noahderrington5156 4 жыл бұрын

Having been working from home since lockdown, I have finally had a chance to listen through hundreds of MiniDiscs I recorded back in the day. What a delight!

@MrEp5 4 жыл бұрын

I CANT BELIEVE HOW GOOD THAT BRASSO STUFF WORKS ON PLASTIC!!!

@MrEp5 4 жыл бұрын

oops my caps was on :) still excited though

@robbieking7474 4 жыл бұрын

I used it yesterday to remove scratches from ps2 games that weren't working, and now they work perfectly.

@albertocabezas282 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! You can even fix a scratched CD. There's another polisher, called Silvo, to do a proper silky finish.

@MrEp5 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you both for the replies! Good to know!

@MrTruth111 4 жыл бұрын

you can use it on foggy headlights as well, its amazing

@JohnnyLeyenda 4 жыл бұрын

You call them "Moments of madness" I call them "Investment timeframes"

@frankschneider6156 4 жыл бұрын

"Moments of madness" is what wives call it (if they don't call it far worse)

@David8n 4 жыл бұрын

I call it 'going on ebay after one too many whiskeys'.

@numbers9to0 4 жыл бұрын

New Techmoan clip, 3 minutes away, and the best: it's about MD.

@colinmccormack7033 4 жыл бұрын

Sweeeet

@pittypolyphonic 4 жыл бұрын

You TEASE , you absolute TAUNT i would DIE for that video

@Thermalions 4 жыл бұрын

Techmoan: "If you're shopping for a used MD personal stereo" ... "I know a most distinguished gent who has a couple of dozen it seems." Fixed the description for you there Mat.

@hollyn7775 4 жыл бұрын

My high school memorieeeeees!! Thanks for sharing this✨　 From Japan

@tutelarius 4 жыл бұрын

One of the best things about minidisc was being able to make digital mixtapes for friends. I still have discs from friends - these are precious to me, which is why I won't sell the RH1.

@nathan_tasker 4 жыл бұрын

Damn that’s a lot of minidisc players. I hope most of them end up working for you. Great video as always 🙂

@Deep_wolf 4 жыл бұрын

Just throw them at the sharks. That will work.

@salis-salis 4 жыл бұрын

Liek and subscribe and hit all notification to win a random minidisc player (not clickbait) (j/k)

@Ganaton2 4 жыл бұрын

3:05 Subtle cameo of The 8-bit Guy's Planet X3 there

@DustyGamma 4 жыл бұрын

Actually seems a fairly blaring reference... if you play it at high volume.

@superdingo9741 4 жыл бұрын

I came to the comments to see if someone else has noniced.

@tealosophy 4 жыл бұрын

Following a sort of "cyberpunk internal joke" me and my friends started recording all our minidiscs with new wave retro music

@keeper__88_ 4 жыл бұрын

I´m working on some retrowave tracks, not the pro stuff but certainly good music, subscribe and check them in a few weeks. As well I´m a proud owner of an MD player

@bangerbangerbro 3 жыл бұрын

new wave is like normal music is it not? what you would listen to anyway without any joke?

@Gadgetonomy 4 жыл бұрын

I still use my Minidisc recorder/player. It's a thing of beauty and a joy to hold. It's a format that should never die.

@brysimm404 4 жыл бұрын

I have a SHARP MD-MT15 in still very clean, perfect working condition (plus 4 still wrapped new Memorex discs, along with various used ones). MiniDisc was both the best and most under appreciated format of it’s era 👍

@roxics 4 жыл бұрын

Love your coverage of Minidiscs. Can't wait to see the unwrapping of all those MD devices. Being from the US, where Minidisc (sadly) never really took off in any significant way, I remember being in Europe (Germany) in 1998 and going into a store and seeing a whole bunch of all-in-one stereo shelf systems. I was really shocked that so many of them had MD players, unlike in the US where you barely saw MD units at all. So the fact that Japan was even more involved in Minidisc is fascinating. This is a format that I feel like we really missed out on here in the US. It should have been the cassette of the 90s. I think it would have been popular if it was cheaper. It was just too expensive (for portable recorders) back then and everyone had started collecting CDs around then. So they weren't going to double dip on prerecorded media.

@Setsuna_Kyoura 4 жыл бұрын

7:20 I really love these japanese safety illustrations. They always look funny and somewhat cute. They make these everywhere, from cars to electronics and even in heavy industrial equipment and machines...

@Setsuna_Kyoura 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, THIS should be the way to go, to make sure people reading the safety instructions ^^

@florianb81 4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes please do an unboxing of the lot. Thank you for your work. Greatly appreciated in these strange times.

@jamesleung2450 4 жыл бұрын

Watching these videos during quarantine had me digging out my old recorder and player from storage. Recorded my first MD in decades thanks to you, Techmoan!

@oliverp4115 4 жыл бұрын

At 16 I had a MZ E300 player. One AA battery internally and a 30 hour+ battery life. Awesome. No remote though. Was fine for me as I had a 3 CD, twin cassette AIWA hifi with a MD recorder built in. I worked hard on my paper round and bought it all myself. Good times.

@irimsifuentes5636 4 жыл бұрын

I have to say, your videos give me LIFE! Music tech and nostalgia are me hit! ESPECIALLY mini discs.

@youngalientype 4 жыл бұрын

I see Techmoan, I see minidisc, I click like.

@thecaptain2281 4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@woutvangelder 4 жыл бұрын

@@thecaptain2281 And here!

@EvenTheDogAgrees 4 жыл бұрын

Right, thanks for reminding me.

@erinwiebe7026 4 жыл бұрын

I visited the UK from Canada over 20 years ago now, and I remember seeing shop displays & adverts for MiniDisc all over. They seemed to be ubiquitous there, whereas I'd never even come across one back home. We were still using cassette walkmans & discmans here and MiniDisc just never caught on. I don't think I've ever seen a MiniDisc player/recorder in person since that UK visit. Seeing your videos on MiniDisc are interesting to me - it's like a bit of nostalgia that never was.

@chrisward000 4 жыл бұрын

I’m from the UK and I don’t think I ever saw a Minidisc player outside of a shop. Certainly don’t know anyone who owned one. I went from cassettes to a CD Walkman.

@chrisward000 4 жыл бұрын

That said, I still like TM’s Minidisc videos as they are a bit of tech that I know very little about.

@bio-plasmictoad5311 4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisward000 pritty much everyone went from cassettes to CD, didn't know anyone that had a MD player.

@Iam_Dunn 4 жыл бұрын

I bought mine here in 🇨🇦 from the Sears catalogue. :)

@brianartillery 4 жыл бұрын

The players and the discs are very cool items - the discs, especially. They look wonderful, and are very tactile. They sound even better. I love them. My brother used to make 'Mix discs' at home, and play them on the player in his car. That's where I first encountered them.

@aidan5125 3 жыл бұрын

The first time I hear about a mini disc player on your channel, and you're already pulling out all the accessories and bits and bobs that I could ever see about this thing. If there's one thing for sure, I know that this dude likes mini discs.

@greggregory2554 4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel. :D Picked up an MZ-B10 recorder for £3 in a charity shop. Best value tech purchase so far. Phones have killed the playback market but nothing can beat that minidisc nostalgia that comes from tangible media; similar to tape, vinyl etc.

@coolnegative 4 жыл бұрын

I always loved mini discs. They even had shock skip prevention before other discmans. I never understood why they didnt command a larger part of the market share.

@armandoventura9043 2 жыл бұрын

Because the iPod exist (and some others players like that)

@coolnegative 2 жыл бұрын

@@armandoventura9043 the mini disc came out well before the ipod. Regular CDs still held the market share. The thing is, mini discs were rerecordable and right on the player as opposed to standard CDs that needed a computer, an optical drive, ripping and burning software. I get what you're saying, but your timing is bit off, yes, eventually the ipod and mp3 players struck the final blow, but came on the scene well after the minidisc was out for mass consumption and really were a superior format when they were released........they just didn't catch on quite as much as they should have.

@chrishart8548 2 жыл бұрын

@@coolnegative people just fell in love with the CD. They bought a CD player for the car high-fi systems starting to come with a CD player built in or at the bottom as an extra matching part. Computers had a CD rom Drive than in effect was a CD player for tight people. And even a personal CD player was around £100 for a Sony one at the start. And it wasn't as easy to get mini disc in shops like HMV etc. It was cassette CD and maybe still LP at that stage to. I love mini disc still have a MZ-R900 in blue. Loads of disc's a friend offered to sell me a car stereo Sony mini disk but I turned it down. I always wanted a high fi separate mini disc player/recorder but never pulled the trigger. I had an early mini disc recorder from argos when they first came out ( it took 2 AA batteries) but I sold it for £50 when I got the other one.

@azrael-labs Жыл бұрын

Too smol

@dmk351 Жыл бұрын

too expensive. the pricepoint was feasable for audiophiles- who didn't accept it, because the audio was compressed. when it finally became affordable for average users, mp3 was about to take over....

@onlythunder3323 4 жыл бұрын

Well, MiniDisc is most definitely still alive. Recently when my realtor handed me a MiniDisc archival copy with very nice custom printed vinyl insert label in a jewel case, I was shocked and almost cried lol. You should see my face! I'm in Washington BTW.

@bangerbangerbro 3 жыл бұрын

Out of pretty much every format MD is the least alive. No one cares about it except tech enthusiasts. No one has "nostalgia" for it, which is apparently the only insulting reason anyone cares about anything "obsolete". I never hear anyone talk about MD. My mum doesn't even know what it is.

@jameshodgetts7541 4 ай бұрын

@@bangerbangerbro In the US this is certainly the case. Europe, and especially japan however, we binned off cassettes years before the states did. At least in the UK, a lot of people used to record from the radio (cheapest way to get the latest bangers!), and MD was perfect for this, whereas CD was useless for it!

@bangerbangerbro 3 ай бұрын

@@jameshodgetts7541 I live in the UK. You rarely ever see MD machines - very occasionally you find MDs in charity shops however. I got some MDs off of someone for free who was giving them away (I still don't have a machine to use them with years later), and they even seemed to think you could use them with a PC CD drive, despite having owned them for years and presumably recorded things to them properly, which would have required an actual machine, rather than a PC drive that would work for a mini CD which is what everyone seems to think of when you say "minidisc". I think here and in most places cassettes persisted until CD burners came around, and only disappeared from popular use in a big way probably with the iPod and other mp3 players.

@McTAnGuS 4 жыл бұрын

I was one of the first back in the day at my highschool by absolutely hammering my grandmas catalogue credit limit buying minidisk players and digital cameras in the year 2000 to 2001 woops. Thinking back now to how at 15 spending £250 to £300 on a Sony MZ-R91 was mental. It did work out well as about 8 years later I bought a Cadillac STS that had a minidisk player built in. it felt like Christmas :D

@Chriswales 4 жыл бұрын

MDs bring back so many memories, bought into them big time in 1999/2000. First a Sharp MT20 then a JVC FS-MD9000 Mirco system, finally got a Sony MD head unit for the car and linked it to a 10 CD auto changer and a 6 MD auto changer in the boot. The Sony head unit had a rather amusing graphic of what look like a dinosaur moving across the screen. Only had the audio system in the car for a few months before it all got stolen. Learnt my lesson and replaced it with a single CD player. Still have the Sharp & JVC somewhere.

@WalcomS7 4 жыл бұрын

That Brasso Wadding is a game changer. Little plastic screens getting scratched up is a complete annoyance but that could fix some of the less egregious ones. Thanks for sharing that!

@JesterPezz 4 жыл бұрын

I've been a minidisc collector since 1997, still use them.

@MegaCunnie 4 жыл бұрын

MD was amazing. Popular with DJs due to the nice compression when you made mixes. I know DJs that still use them to this day.

@MegaTrolleybus 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing find. The remote alone is worth many times what you paid. Coincidentally i'm listening my MZ-N707 while typing this.

@hasegawaarisu5678 4 жыл бұрын

I love old tech, but most of them struck me as novelties. This is something I never thought i wanted, but now I do. Also, Brasso.

@sebastian221983 4 жыл бұрын

that Brasso is from another universe!!! :-O

@travisash8180 4 жыл бұрын

@@sebastian221983 No, it's not from another universe. You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths. But I doubt if they'll have any in.

@gabrieltodino5970 4 жыл бұрын

Hello Mr Tech! since years i use the minidisc to record my band in the studio straight from the mixer and is so convinient! one battery AA can record for hours and the ability to leasten back inmediatly its amazing! for me is one of the best devices ever made and the format is so cool also they are reasonable cheap in the best audio quality,.. please make more videos about is always very nice know something else about, thank you so much very nice channel.

@genesanford9412 4 жыл бұрын

Techmoan , i love the random stuff you show ,and miss these machines and gadgets we thought were cutting edge then. Your channel always makes me smile."I had one of those... !"(Me, watching a segment)

@markmoffatt6055 4 жыл бұрын

im 19 and even though I wasn't even born or listening to music when you showcase most of the technology on your channel I find it so fascinating. Im trying to start my own hi-fi system since I love music and tech and messing around with things and fixing things. So far ive been out-bid on all the items ive bidded on, on eBay. but I will persist!

@robinbrowne5419 4 жыл бұрын

Puppets "Why did you get a player-only model? I want to record my voice." "I don't want to hear your voice. I hear your voice all day long." :-)

@bustopherjones2285 4 жыл бұрын

I miss their skits

@helloperson6431 4 жыл бұрын

MiniDisc look incredibly interesting to me, same with many different types of Cassettes and CDs. They look so cool. I might get a MiniDisc Player at some point. Great video, as usual.

@Agnethatheredhairkid 4 жыл бұрын

@ Hi Person: My brother had one. Don't know whether he still has it though.

@LeeBergerMediaProd 4 жыл бұрын

I have two experiences with MiniDisc in professional settings. Back in 2010 I was a videotape editor at the Florida Channel (think Florida Legislative CSPAN). I edited packages for the nightly news cast. The reporters used MiniDisc to record their voice overs for the packages. The edit suite had something similar to a Sony MDS-B5 for playback and recording. The other was in providing over the phone audio for a company's annual stockholder meeting. Two portable MiniDisc recorder/players were provided, one for music playback before the meeting opened and the other to record the meeting audio (feed from the house PA). In my experience they worked quite well.

@hurricane567 4 жыл бұрын

My first digital music player was a usb thumb drive with all the necessary controls on it, a headphone jack, and a tiny lcd screen much like this one. I usually wore it on a an earbud/lanyard around my neck. One day i got up from a table at work that i was sitting close to. I pushed the table back as i was sitting in a booth and couldn't move that seat back. The table rocked back towards me and WHACK hit the player! It broke the plastic plate that covered the screen but not the screen itself. I pried off the broken bit, cut another piece of similar size and shape out of a bit of clam shell packaging, and super glued that back over the screen. Worked like a charm, and i thought that was what you were going to do!

@steveg5122 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to your videos i bought a MD recorder again, ended up getting a MZ-N707 in blue by pure luck with a bunch of blank discs. I've been using Platinum-MD on windows to burn discs now, it makes the whole process for netMD simple and straightforward, more so than the original SonicStage software, which it can burn better discs than due to having proper "SP" quality versus doubling up the LP2 to fake a SP for older machines. I also use Modern Panasonic eneloop pro 2550 mAh batteries ni-mh in it, it charges it no problem in the AA slot on the back.

@stevebinning977 4 жыл бұрын

Since the Covid 19 lockdown began I have used some of the money I have saved on transport now that I am working from home to buy two MD recorders 1 HiMD and a LP2 / LP4 net MD as my previous machine broke down years ago leaving me with more than 300 minidisks with god knows how many albums, live concerts etc recorded on them and nothing to play them on. I have also found some unlabeled MDs most of which are blank so I can record more stuff at my leisure. I think it was a shame that the format died out so quickly as the recording quality is far better than Mp3s IMO.

@stevebinning977 4 жыл бұрын

@SteveGreer Do you know if Platinum MD works for HiMD as well?

@steveg5122 4 жыл бұрын

@@stevebinning977 I'm not entirely sure

@stevebinning977 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks I'll do some research now that you've drawn my attention to it.

@MnemonicHeadTrip 2 жыл бұрын

How do you get audio on the minidiscs though? I'm confused about how all this works

@iainb1577 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Brasso tip. Thats a properly handy piece of gen.

@brianartillery 4 жыл бұрын

I've just been listening to a load of old Minidiscs. I've got a Stereo separate, and two portables - a Sony MZ-E300, which was a christmas gift in 2001, and an MZ-N510, which I got for a couple of quid from a car boot sale, as the seller had no idea what it was. They all work perfectly. I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar one in your MD haul.

@gisan3537 4 жыл бұрын

20 years ago this month, I begged my Dad to get me a Minidisc player for my 14th birthday. I wanted the Sony MZ-R55 after seeing the MTV 9-9-99 promo about minidisc. My Dad agreed to buy me one, it was sold out everywhere, then I found this sketchy electronic online store and finally got my hands on one. I still have the original gold color one that is having some issues. This month I bought 2 more MZ-R55s that are more rare colors. I love having a dedicated music device on the go and I use mine everyday. Anyone who is remotely curious about this format, I highly recommend you give it a try!

@martinda7446 4 жыл бұрын

OooooH! getting toward the MILLION subs......That would be an achievement. Congrats Techmoan.

@tiffanyaa 4 жыл бұрын

Seems every problem in the universe can be sold with one of four things : duct tape, WD-40, silvo, or brasso...

@GlaciaDay 4 жыл бұрын

Well in Japan, CRC-556. also I found it to be better than WD-40 since there’s no annoying oily smell

@spugintrntl 4 жыл бұрын

Toothpaste works pretty well for buffing plastic screens too.

@hakology 4 жыл бұрын

dont forget IPA

@MKamTech 4 жыл бұрын

Princess Ophelia nice 👍🏻

@organfairy 4 жыл бұрын

Or new belts.

@Jayymes 4 жыл бұрын

seeing scratched stuff get polished makes my soul feel good

@carlpollington5059 4 жыл бұрын

Because of my recent discovery of Techmoan I've also recently got into minidiscs (the format I wanted but could not afford as a teenager). Last week I got a Kenwood dmc-l3 portable player for £25 including free postage. It is a bit scuffed and the player has no remote, charger, batteries or mains adapter but I am happy using AA batteries which it takes internally, and don't really need the remote. What sold it for me was it came with 13 used minidiscs, and it turns out there are several albums there which I listened to in my early twenties and hadn't heard for fifteen or more years. The rest will be wiped for my increasing desire to make my own "mix discs". A great result and just shows if you read the description carefully, are patient and don't put too much emphasis on aesthetics and accessories you can get a good deal.

@alastairward2774 4 жыл бұрын

What's the betting the price edges up in the next few days after this video.

@rexsexson5349 4 жыл бұрын

The techmoan bump.

@MartinIrwin 4 жыл бұрын

@@rexsexson5349 that's why it is techMOAN

@mattcintosh2 4 жыл бұрын

probably time to sell off some of my spare MD players - and a couple professional component models....

@Onteo1 4 жыл бұрын

Alastair Ward I’m looking now

@RustyX2010 4 жыл бұрын

yeah prices went up 5x! I remember when these used to cost between $5-20 easy!

@heroicrockstar 4 жыл бұрын

Yes please, open them up, never had a mini disc player, but I find them intriguing 👍

@firesurfer 4 жыл бұрын

They are interesting for a couple hours. After that, it just seems pointless. That was 20 years ago, maybe more. I still have it, along with a dozen or so factory pressed discs.

@Zadster 4 жыл бұрын

When I saw the scratched LCD lens, I thought.. "I bet he uses Brasso for that". @8:07 Smug mode was engaged. So satisfying! I cleaned the headlamp lenses on my dad's car with Brasso, it made a heck of a difference. It really is excellent for cleaning up transparent acrylic and polycarbonate (CD cases etc).

@roboftherock 4 жыл бұрын

Totally irrelevant to the topic here, near the end of last year, both my MD decks failed to eject the MD inside. I boldly went where Mat had gone before and opened them up. Following in his footsteps, I found a vendor of suitable belt drives. Getting the old belt out was a real pain in the proverbial, until I straightened out a common paper clip and used it as a hook. That made fitting the new one a doddle as well. I'm a happy chappy again - and since the vendor is only a train ride away, I can get more when lock-down is over. Lucky me. Thanks for the inspiration, Mat.

@inverse_of_zero 4 жыл бұрын

"Uwrap them together" ? Sounds like perfect livestream content ;)

@themixgenius1993 4 жыл бұрын

4:25 - "Oh I thought he was gonna clean it, I was expecting a Brasso he previously shown in his previous video" 8:05 - *"OH THERE IT IS!!!"*

@andrewhaines8603 4 жыл бұрын

I use Brasso wadding to clean up scratched CD's & DVD's. It won't get rid of deep gouges, but it has saved a few discs from being thrown away and saved a few charity shop buys! We used to use it to remove price stickers on music books with a shiny laquered covers to resell if they were in mint condition in the music shop I worked at. It's a versatile product.

@stepanremes987 4 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I would definitely love to watch the unboxing video! :)

@anselmopereira3785 4 жыл бұрын

We need to make the DankPods of the MiniDisc world happen.

@bangerbangerbro 3 жыл бұрын

wtf is dankpod?

@dovydasgrigas441 3 жыл бұрын

@@bangerbangerbro dankpods is a youtube channel that mods ipods and reviews junky mp3 players

@JeeWeeD 4 жыл бұрын

Unwrapping that pack and testing them sounds entertaining enough, so yes, please! :-)

@hectorcorona9536 4 жыл бұрын

I bought a Hi-MD on a flea market for the exorbitant price of 0.34 GBP (10 Mexican pesos). Just needed to unstuck the eraser head and now I can listen to my 2005-2006 music collection again.

@Kalvinjj 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man, you just brought me back memories of my teens when I was a heck lot of an Ayumi Hamasaki fan with the Panasonic MD player add, she used to advertise all kinds of things from Panasonic after all, and her biggest fame was on the tail end of the MD era. ...well not like it's been ages since I was really into her too...

@PSNGormond 4 жыл бұрын

Would also like to see that video, can't get enough MD nostalgia!

@bangerbangerbro 3 жыл бұрын

"nostalgia"? You must be really shallow. That is the only reason you are interested in MD?

@PSNGormond 3 жыл бұрын

@@bangerbangerbro Did I say that was the only reason? No, didn't think so...

@hamstersong123 4 жыл бұрын

4:46 That makes me wonder though.. My Japan Imported BMW E90 3 Series has an MD player in it, despite being made in 2006.

@LuciferStarr 3 жыл бұрын

8:17 My mother used to use Brasso on her Guide Guider badges back in my childhood. The moment you took that lid off my brain provided the smell! Amazing how that happens.

@Mungo2013 4 жыл бұрын

It's always being a pleasure to listen whatever you talk about.

@flaturiah 4 жыл бұрын

Mate, it's 4:30 in the morning. Flippin' eck. This is what I have to do to get my Techmoan fresh and ready? The sleep deprivation was worth it.

@Hawk1966 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely want to see the opening of the mystery packages. Looks like fun!

@fringleshnotz 4 жыл бұрын

I discovered Techmoan thanks to a pandemic-based furlough. I am loving your channel! I enjoy the reviews, but the retro tech vids are just amazing. I love the history lesson we get for each item and I can't get enough repairs and restorations. Have you ever thought of doing a video where you go through your toolbox and talk about the tools, cleaners, and parts you keep on hand for the repairs you do on the old tech? You give a lot of info in each video, but it would be interesting to see a video dedicated to just the repair kit. I think it would make for some informative viewing. Keep up the great work!

@zigzag8111 2 жыл бұрын

Me too, these videos made the pandemic bearable. Just when I think I've watched them all I discover one I've missed. Techmoan also started my obsession with minidiscs, now I own 3 portable recorders, 1 player, 1 bookshelf stereo and about 300 discs 😂

@THEtvExPerT 4 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your love of MiniDisc players. It's always a highlight when I see a video of one that's new to your awesome and ever expanding collection. I remember saving up, as a kid, for a Sharp MD-MS702. I think it was around $400, which was a pretty big deal back in the day. It was, and will always be, my favorite portable music listening device. I ended up losing it on a "replacement plan" trade-in (around the year 2000) at Best Buy. Sadly, all it needed was a couple screws replaced and they deemed it "unrepairable." I traded it for a Sony brand portable MD recorder/player that was grossly disappointing in quality. I hope to purchase a MD-MS702 again some day!

@slinkyveil6031 4 жыл бұрын

I would watch that video even if it went for hours!

@kryskamieniecki8279 4 жыл бұрын

Could you use a cylinder battery charger to charge the flat battery? I assume the chemistry is the same, and there are chargers that handle all sizes of cylinder batteries. That last flat battery charger looks like some company rebranded a normal charger.

@Techmoan 4 жыл бұрын

I really don’t know. Perhaps someone can answer below.

@LMacNeill 4 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, the flat NiMH batteries are 3 (really 2.4) volts, and the round NiMH batteries (the AA and AAA ones) are 1.5 (really 1.2) volts, so your average cylindrical battery-charger would not work correctly. Not without some hacking, at any rate. The cylindrical battery chargers sometimes force you to charge in pairs, and a pair of the round NiMH batteries would be the correct voltage for the flat battery, but I'd be extremely reluctant to trust hacking a standard battery charger to charge the flat batteries -- the flat-battery chargers just aren't expensive enough to warrant the risk, in my opinion.

@Techmoan 4 жыл бұрын

NH-14WM(A) are 1.2V if this helps. Perhaps something like this will work? www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QMR7ZFS/ - I haven’t used this one myself though.

@TheFilwud 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can, I do, the gumstick is just an NiMH cell that's been trodden on! I tested and refreshed all my gumsticks with a XTAR Dragon clever charger thing. Been doing similar for quite a while now. They are 1.2 volts and the same length as a AA NiMH battery.

@dashcamandy2242 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFilwud I agree. I have a lesser charger - Opus BT-C3100 if anyone cares - those smart chargers can handle all sorts of different battery chemistries and sizes, and allow you to manually set charge rate if you want to override. I don't see why they can't be used for gumstick batteries as long as you have a good connection across the terminals.

@RetroGamerVX 4 жыл бұрын

I got a portable minidisc Sony player about 4 years ago in a junk shop for £10. Still works fine and regularly use in th car.

@tonystillwell8178 4 жыл бұрын

What a score! Congratulations! I love your minidisc videos, and the comments they attract. They reassure me that I’m not the only crazy one.

@Henchman1977 4 жыл бұрын

I want someone to love me as much as Techmoan loves mini-disc.

@toe7182 4 жыл бұрын

1:53 casually pullin out 'the trill is gone' on tape.

@JeanLoyens 4 жыл бұрын

As I am really a fan of the minidisc and your channel, I wouldn't mind watching the unboxing and testing of all the md's you won. Thank you so much for all your videos!

@dnuttall2363 3 жыл бұрын

best channel on youtube im a sucker for old tech like this and i still use my md walkman to this day love it

@Wenlocktvdx 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t get the wadding version of Brasso in Australia, sadly.

@lesrogers7310 4 жыл бұрын

The liquid version along with a microfibre cloth works just as well.

@ohnoitschris 4 жыл бұрын

@@lesrogers7310 ah, good to know!

@lesrogers7310 4 жыл бұрын

Also, products like Abro Headlamp Polish that are slightly abrasive will do the job. You basically need a mild abrasive polish, so there are many products you may already have that you can try.

@Seele2015au 4 жыл бұрын

Wenlocktvdx They were sold in Australia many years ago under the original Duraglit brand, but not for a fair few years now. Those were the fine blue and coarser orange. Last time in the UK I bought one of each, rebranded as Silvo and Brasso respectively, and use them very sparingly.

@Wenlocktvdx 4 жыл бұрын

Going to get tomorrow as I can’t find the we had. Certainly still get Silvio and Brasso here, just not the wadding version. I can recall mum getting Brasso in the UK long ago, it was at Sainburys and was like a thickish cream with a small round pad applicator.

@devvynully 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else interested in a 3 hour Techmoan livestream of unboxing and testing of 100 MD players?

@invisiblekid99 4 жыл бұрын

Just dug out my MZ-NH1. Very little extra bulk or weight for a recording Minidisc. Love the ability to use any headphones with the remote attached. Just need a battery and 6v charger now.

@RadioJonophone 4 жыл бұрын

As an early adopter of MiniDisc, I still have two Sony decks and a Sharp portable. I used to use the portable as a sound recorder for videos, although today, with no idea that this new Techmoan piece was coming up, I spent the afternoon listening to stuff on the Sharp in the sunshine. Long may the format continue.

@wmproductions9932 4 жыл бұрын

How did you make that intro sign, Techmoan? Have you ever done a video about that?

@djdrwatson 4 жыл бұрын

Is that £10 in the thumbnail still legal to spend in shops?

@gwishart 4 жыл бұрын

The paper tenners were withdrawn from circulation on 1st March 2018. Technically, the only organisation which *must* accept them is the Bank of England. In practice, most banks and post offices will still accept them for deposits. Shops *can* accept them as payment if they want to, but they are under no obligation to do so.

@GTRdeamon 4 жыл бұрын

I still have my old MD player/recorder. My model is a Sony MZ-R70 MD player. What is great about this one is battery is aa build in what ever you use a rechargeable or normal battery. You don't need speal chargers or accessories. You just poop in a aa battery and you are ready. Downside about this one however is, it is quite noisy for a portable device and has all ways been. But it still fully works.

@q61org 4 жыл бұрын

About "Japan fully adopted MiniDisc as the successor to cassettes" -- It was in fact like that in Japan back then. As well as mini systems like the one at 2:14, boomboxes with their cassette part replaced by MiniDisc were very popular and commonplace. All the CD/MD boomboxes could copy CD to MiniDisc very easily, including track indexes and such, usually by simply pressing a button. Some of them even featured "high-speed dubbing". It was an advantage of the boombox, because the machine already had both CD and MD in it. Because copying was so easy, people rented CDs from rental shops and copied them onto MiniDisc before returning them back next day (or some days later), and enjoyed the music with play-only MD players. It was the cheapest and the most portable option back then. It was also common that someone who bought a CD would copy it on MDs for friends or colleagues. Good memories, but I guess it was also why music companies in Japan were so freaked out that they made solid-state Walkmans very inconvenient with DRMs. I would love to see a video featuring CD/MD boomboxes -- it would definitely bring back memories for me, and it would show everybody how copying CDs were easy and MDs were practical back then.

@Perun42 4 жыл бұрын

Do more puppets, please :)

@MrJ0mmy 4 жыл бұрын

@Rose.Of.Hizaki 4 жыл бұрын

I was blessed to own the MZ-R909 . I loved that thing so much. The clip on the remote was a bit fragile and broke but i didnt care. Then the actual player itself wouldnt work anymore and i was never able to get it working again. The remotes were one of the greatest features about these players. By the time my R900 died Sony stopped making Mini-discs and were trying to transitioning to MP3 players and no longer had any high-end MD players that had a remote.

@oraz. 4 жыл бұрын

I had a Hi-md. Plus the purple discs. It was so cool. You could use it as an mp3 player, but also record and make mix tapes. MiniDisc was the best.

@nicwilson6587 4 жыл бұрын

Mat, yes please to the unwrap video 😍

@rlowle1228 4 жыл бұрын

I can't believe all the gadgets you discover that I was unaware of. The braso fix was a well kept secret till now

@RJDA.Dakota 4 жыл бұрын

My minidisc recorder was one of my favourite devices to use-ever. And every time I brought it out it always attracted a lot of interest from others. Great video.

@randynovick7972 4 жыл бұрын

Minidiscs used to be commonly used at a radio station I worked at, used as portable recorders for interviews. I never quite latched onto them, and by the time I could afford one the MP3 era had begun. This was a very interesting episode. Thanks.

@DelinquentSquirrel 2 ай бұрын

Must have missed this video first time around. I went big on MD back in the 90s and early 2000s - started with a home deck (MDS-JE510), then a Sharp 702 portable, then an in-car player, another home deck (MDS-JB980), in-car changer... ended up with a fair collection of MD hardware - all of which I still have, and can't remember the last time I actually used. That 980 deck in the video though... that's a really lovely bit of kit. Mine's in black rather than silver. It certainly makes the best recordings I'd heard on MD. Apparently the ATRAC type R and type S has a faster DSP chip so can perform a two-pass encoding operation, making more efficient use of the available bitrate even in SP mode. No, I wouldn't sell mine!