Fascinating Vintage 20 Cassette Carousel from 1972 : Panasonic RS-296US

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Retro-Tech: According to the adverts - the Panasonic RS-296US could play 2.5 days of music non-stop...that's roughly the same play time to the '1000 songs in your pocket' that the first 5GB Apple iPod boasted in 2001.
NOTE
2.5 days of play time equates to 60 hours which would require 20x 180-min cassettes. Whilst these tapes did exist at one point, 180-minute lengths were also very fragile and best avoided.
A more realistic play time is to load this machine up with 20x 90-minute cassettes which gives you 30 hours, and that's why I refer to the 'day and a half' of continuous music at the end of video.
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@Metmovie 4 жыл бұрын

I love how the machine just swallows the tape sooooooooooo silently. "This is my tape. My preeeeeecious."

@tsunshine 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@LGR 8 жыл бұрын

Completely mad and completely awesome machine :)

@sciprio1 8 жыл бұрын

I suscribed to your channel when it was called "Phreakindee".

@beetooex 8 жыл бұрын

Discovering that two of my favourite KZfaqrs watch each other's videos. That's awesome.

@crapper1 8 жыл бұрын

why in the heck am i not surprised to see you pop in here to drool at this machine with us :D

@nihonam 8 жыл бұрын

The EEVblog is out there =)

@crapper1 8 жыл бұрын

seems borderline as being good enough for dave to review seriously once you seen inside one multimeter or scope they are basicly the same

@MakeLifeExtraordinary 3 жыл бұрын

I truly want to meet the engineer who designed this. I just can’t imagine walking in to the board room and saying hey I got something really cool for you guys. Wow. Truly master design there.

@macbuff81 4 жыл бұрын

The 70s sure loved putting wood grain on everything

@fortheloveofnoise 4 жыл бұрын

80s too. I have a wood grain TV from 1987.

@JanetStarChild 4 жыл бұрын

The '70s and '80s was all about luxurious wood grain with silver highlights. ...Then the '90s came along and everything was made in matted black with aerodynamic curves... anticipating that people would throw away such unappealing electronics & appliances.

@trollsthatlol1 4 жыл бұрын

LGR approves!

@taylorgreen9929 4 жыл бұрын

I have an old cassette tape container with, I'm pretty sure, the exact same wood grain as the player in this video.

@fordshojoe8080 4 жыл бұрын

@@trollsthatlol1 damn I'm a month to late

@ifitsrusteditsmine 7 жыл бұрын

The fact that someone inveted this 40 years ago it's quite amazing. It is even more amazing that someone bought this 40 years later and made a video out of it. What is utterly incredible is that I have spent 15 minutes of my life amazed by this incredible machine. Now, I need one.

@MKIVWWI 6 жыл бұрын

Also, the fact that it still worked perfectly after 40 years, and didn't need refurbishing.

@pesto12601 5 жыл бұрын

HuH??? we sent folks to the MOON 50 years ago... the first car over 100 years ago.. steam and mechanical equipment for many 100's before that!!

@tvoommen4688 5 жыл бұрын

New-age Rip van winkle spotted ha ha ha....

@harrygaul4475 4 жыл бұрын

Yes...it would be so very cool to own one of those multiplayer cassettes carousel.

@fencefirst2722 4 жыл бұрын

Closer to 50 years ago

@Jerbod2 8 жыл бұрын

Holy shit that's one of the most awesome devices I've seen so far, not only does it just look plain awesome, the brushed aluminium with the dark wood, but also the moving bits and professional look of it. Great stuff Mat, you must've been happy like a child when it arrived at your door :)

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

I was just so relieved that it arrived undamaged and was working well. I've had a lot of stuff from the US get trashed in transit.

@Jerbod2 8 жыл бұрын

Techmoan Any difference between paying through the nose for transportation or having cheap-o transport?

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

It's best to ask the seller if you can pay extra to have the object double-boxed ...double boxing has always been the best way I've avoided breakages...polystyrene beads, and bubble pack can help....but I've had things arrive where the packing material has all shifted to one side of the box and the object has been dropped and dented on the other side...so double boxing is the best thing you can do.

@Jerbod2 8 жыл бұрын

Techmoan Alright, I just tend to stick to the countries around the Netherlands such as the UK when buying stuff from Ebay, more often than not it ends up in 1 maybe 2 different transportation companies so that means they'll not be able to blame other companies for not handling your package properly. DHL for instance ships throughout Europe.

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

I have best luck with DHL from Germany...always quick and safe.

@vecernicek2 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a great machine. But it was probably a living hell when it ate the tape.

@harrygaul4475 4 жыл бұрын

Probably why they didn't make too many, and no one really heard of these crazy machines.

@nevermind-wp3bf 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, the eating tape of a cassete player! You've brought the old days nostalgia on me... LOL. I had to carefully and slowly pull the tape from the casette player when it was scrambled all over... LOL and if I was lucky, the tape wouldn't brake, but even if I was unlucky and the tape did brake... I still "managed" to glue it together using nail polish... LOL The old times.... LOL

@bodeghost 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I had an abundance of #2 pencils on hand... 😉

@nextsegment78 4 жыл бұрын

Happened to me during entire 80s and 90s only once. Problem of Tape eating happens only if you carry your tapes without protecting case or you cause the reels to move in all directions (slacks are the cause)

@nevermind-wp3bf 4 жыл бұрын

@@asamsonov34 Oh. For a walkman it was the best way to save the batteries. Though I was using a pencil only if I didn't have a pair of scisors at hand... 😂 For me, rewinding with a pair of scisors was the most accurate method back then...

@nathanchoi3763 4 жыл бұрын

born in the early 90s, don't quite know that such complex cassette machine was already available in the 70s, and the sophistication of this machine actually surprised and inspired me. I also like to watch those mechanical parts working together in a symphonic and harmonious way to carry out different functions, it's as if they are "your responsible friends" who serve your need in a reliable and supportive manner.

@glyph2011 5 жыл бұрын

Almost 3 years later and I’ve only just stumbled onto this video. What an AMAZING machine. That montage terrified me with the complexity of the mechanism. 45 years old now at least. Mind boggling. Also, I’d love to own this. Fabulous thing it is.

@carston101 2 жыл бұрын

I just saw the thumbnail and was utterly confused as to what I was looking at! This is fascinating!

@CMDRSweeper 9 ай бұрын

I am even later than that, and I often watch TechMoan's channel. But what got me curious was seeing this type of machine in the video game Receiver and watching the tapes go around. Then I came here to see the real deal!

@Shreddah 8 жыл бұрын

So many moving parts inside. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into designing this machine. And if something breaks, you're screwed.

@acmeopinionfactory8018 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome electromechanical design. Just imagine a twenty foot tape overrun. What a mess!

@strangersound 8 жыл бұрын

Actually not. If something broke, you would have a technician fix it. Televisions, tape decks, VCRs, etc were all totally serviceable and repair shops were a thriving business sector. Most of these repair shops have gone out of business due to the fact that most modern devices are designed to not be repairable, going as far as companies even refusing to issue service manuals, repair parts, etc. Today's electronics do not offer the same possibility of repair. Most devices made now are disposable and have no options for repair. They don't want you to fix things, they want you to buy another one. Planned obsolescence is the prevailing design drive these days. This is exactly why you still see plenty of vintage gear from decades ago that still works fine. It was designed to last and designed to be repairable. Try to find anything from the last ten years that will last 5 decades. Good luck.

@greenaum 8 жыл бұрын

If this thing ever chewed up a tape, it'd be a NIGHTMARE! Still, usually happened most to Walkmans. Maybe the miniaturisation, or low price point, made the mechanisms less reliable. Sometimes you'd have to take the whole player apart. At least for this thing, the player's mechanism is open. Once the bottom cover's off, you could probably untangle the tape. The tape mechanism makes me think of car stereos, they had the same insert-tape mechanism. Perhaps that's what this is, a car cassette player mechanism. Also would be a bit more rugged I'd think.

@greenaum 8 жыл бұрын

As far as servicing and repair, some modern stuff you can swap out an entire board or assembly, so they're a BIT repairable. As much as anything else though it's not worth the money. A skilled technician's time is worth more money than it costs to just replace your television, for the most part. More expensive things I imagine are designed more to be serviceable. Other thing is components. They've become more reliable, and more complex, in the case of ICs. So it's not worth the bother of trying to isolate a particular component to replace. You just swap out the whole board instead. Diagnostic procedures are designed at that level. The stuff that's most likely to go wrong in modern stuff, because it's the most complex, is the software.

@IgorPeruchi 8 жыл бұрын

I thought the same! How would it be if this thing chewed up a tape!!

@DylansPen 3 жыл бұрын

These older machines ARE fascinating. Back when the world ran on physical properties rather than digital streaming. That one device shown that withdraws the cassette, flips it over, then moves it back to the play head is so cool. So is the title carousel player. Brilliant stuff. That machine is the ultimate mix tape from back then.

@lightwishatnight 4 жыл бұрын

The amount of hours you put into your videos is amazing and awe inspiring. Thanks, cheers from Mexico.

@GNeuman 8 жыл бұрын

You do realise that removing the cover voids the warranty...

@brendenallen 8 жыл бұрын

It was probably already expired by then anyway.

@BlokeOzzie 8 жыл бұрын

Lack of humor detected. Initiating retort sequence. Retort sequence initiated. "Derp." Retort sequence completed.

@christesterman 7 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!! But it nothing about removing the bottom part...where everything is at because no one would be that stup....oh shit he did it.

@filminginportland1654 7 жыл бұрын

Brenden Allen dur dur dur

@filminginportland1654 7 жыл бұрын

Chris Testerman I never followed those labels.

@Abr3200 8 жыл бұрын

Dude... That Mechanical Montage. Nerdgasmic

@davidblair8843 8 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the systems engineering that went into making something like that work? The montage was fantastic! Thanks for that. DB

@RedKnight-fn6jr 4 жыл бұрын

So simple, but yet, so effective. These would have been great at house parties - there'd have been no more having to search for cassettes every hour then - surprised there weren't more of these machines around.

@markw208 3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing these way back then. It seemed so cool and I wanted one.

@user-jr8vh7vc8m 5 ай бұрын

Из за таких игрушек социализм закончился!

@dougmitchell1919 7 жыл бұрын

Ok now I have to find one of these. This guy has cost me money every time I view his videos. Thanks buddy.

@lampssmh4065 6 жыл бұрын

i know know i really want one

@MKIVWWI 6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, since I still use lots of cassettes. But then I got to thinking -- 1974-75 vintage? What kind of shape would the belts and pinch rollers be in after 40-some years? I can just image that thing "eating" one tape after another....

@scaleop4 6 жыл бұрын

true. but that's why you'd need to do some testing first. but chances are you'll be changing the belts.

@BugzKiller 6 жыл бұрын

Check Ebay

@No-vm7go 5 жыл бұрын

You've got a problem. I suspect I may have the same problem only with old cars, trucks and, well, it does seem to include almost any old 'device'. Calculators, pencil sharpeners, mechanical pencils, drafting equipment, watches, tools, etc. Ok, I take it back. *I* have a problem. Not enough money to buy all of these outdated museum pieces.

@TheSlaterReport 7 жыл бұрын

You're damn lucky that thing worked when you got it. Repairing that would be a nightmare.

@maxmorgan9792 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah itwould

@vulovulo6401 6 жыл бұрын

nah, just an afternoon job in frony of tv.

@JohnLeaf 6 жыл бұрын

the gears could be rooted and would be a pain in the ass print them again

@MKIVWWI 6 жыл бұрын

Forget repairing it... just look what you have to go thru to clear a tape it "eats"!

@berryj.greene7090 6 жыл бұрын

Very true my friend - very true!

@Beanie1984 3 жыл бұрын

That would of been perfect for Pirate Radio Stations back in the day!

@Mark-OutWest 4 жыл бұрын

I love the olden days when remote controls came with 20 foot cords on them. Reminds me of my old cable box from '79.

@nkt1 4 жыл бұрын

Not so common in the UK. I'm in my mid 40s and don't recall ever seeing one. No doubt they were susceptible to damage and a major tripping hazard.

@chunkymunkey9182 3 жыл бұрын

Some reason, Colecovision comes to mind... :P

@totaltwit 5 жыл бұрын

wow, amazing, for 1972 that was genius. Just think for every single part there exists a full engineering drawing, assembly drawings, setup and alignment drawings etc. a huge amount of engineering has gone into that machine. It show just how clever and determined the Japanese are. Simply brilliant.

@tvoommen4688 5 жыл бұрын

This know-how dates back to industrial revolution of 1800s -- an assembly of cogwheels and levers doing several jobs simultaneously, power from a single drive - a motor ( a steam engine in 1800s)

@totaltwit 5 жыл бұрын

@@tvoommen4688 yeh just like a F1 engine does ;)

@jasonrackawack9369 5 жыл бұрын

Just think in 1972 those drawings were done by a draftsman with a pencil and ruler on a sheet of paper. The math for the gear ratios would have been done on a slide rule...Today they would build and test the entire thing in a 3D model.....then again today all the music is digital. That tape player is way cool though! I had some old 70s marantz made in japan stero equipment back in the 90s the old 70s stuff sound blew away the 90s technics stuff I bought to replace it. I Wish i had kept all of it.

@chunkymunkey9182 3 жыл бұрын

Thats why everything back in the 70's was so well built, not made of plastic.

@niallcw6970 8 жыл бұрын

I'm 17 and no nothing about these type of machines haha. Still love and appreciate those mechanical machines. That mechanical montage aswell was amazing. Love the videos man.

@niallcw6970 8 жыл бұрын

*know nothing haha

@niallcw6970 8 жыл бұрын

+niall cw also when I saw death certificate in your collection 😍😍

@A-G-F- 8 жыл бұрын

im 16 i used these, how funny is living in a sub-developed country

@Jahab114 8 жыл бұрын

No one gives a shit.

@niallcw6970 8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin The Hyena so you. Took the time to go through the comment. Find someone to bitch and moan at. Then click comment. Then think of something to say. Then type it and send it? That seems like a lot of effort for someone who "doesn't care". Now off with you back to your troll cave and cuddle up to mama

@georgiahomegrownadventures 4 жыл бұрын

Never knew there was such a thing.

@sandabesednik323 4 жыл бұрын

Me too !

@darekcoventry 4 жыл бұрын

And my self!

@carlosvipe2765 4 жыл бұрын

I've never seen or heard of that player before. Amazing! Technology has been continuously amazing throughout the years.

@douglasjoslyniii1538 7 жыл бұрын

That is so cool, where was this in the 80's when I wanted to play non-stop music in my youth

@cvr4FT 5 жыл бұрын

In the 80's I used to record to VHS. 4hrs of music right there!

@Srinathji_Das 7 жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful piece of analog electromechanical technology. Thanks for the video.

@cristo7582 3 жыл бұрын

THESE OLD MACHINES WERE GREAT,BEAUTIFUL,THE BEST,THANKS TO YOU.

@ahyonvlogs 4 жыл бұрын

So fascinating how all these mech were turned into just 0s and 1s later on till today 😁 And so entertaining to witness how those tapes on the rotator seemed to wiggle all at once

@darktoranaga 8 жыл бұрын

The mechanical montage is fantastic!

@mavoc3094 6 жыл бұрын

straight up mechnical engineering pornography there

@MKIVWWI 6 жыл бұрын

Homage to both the "Waltz King" Johann Straus, Jr. (1825-1899) and 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey"!

@ObiWanBillKenobi 6 жыл бұрын

Huzzah for “The Blue Danube”! So perfect for this sort of thing. 🎶🎵

@clutchkman 5 жыл бұрын

I would have loved this thing back in the 80’s, my tape collection was so good! Great video, a real treat to see!

@betelspitter 3 жыл бұрын

@KelMaster Construction me too!!!!

@Bobrogers99 4 жыл бұрын

I am in awe of the mechanical wizards who devised all these steps that work together to make it operate smoothly.

@samsen3965 4 жыл бұрын

9:36 What a ballerina!!! Forget about seeing one, never new one such a thing even existed! Ahhhh those good ole days..... Thanks a lot for showing this amazing machine.

@cameronfarley5910 7 жыл бұрын

Ya know, I just have this mental image of this being used as a prop in an 80's film where the computer guy of the movie has re-purposed this as a memory bank for his computer that uses cassette tapes for memory. "...each cassette holds a different program on it, allowing me to quickly switch between 20 applications at a time with only the push of a button. I call it the AB, or App Bank."

@chistinelane 7 жыл бұрын

Cameron Farley pair this up with something like commandor and you'll be fucking golden

@hadto8482 6 жыл бұрын

please do this

@squishygaming545 6 жыл бұрын

Cameron Farley f

@CraigStellmacher 6 жыл бұрын

Or a cheap cart-solution for a small radio station too.

@factcheckersbranch 6 жыл бұрын

Cameron Farley a compact cassette version of a RAID lol

@mindtekzone 8 жыл бұрын

I repaired consumer electronics for a living in the 1970's and as a warranty Tech for Panasonic I remember working on about 4 of these machines. They had a big design fault that showed up on all the ones that I repaired …. the mechanism that would pull the cassette down into the tape deck portion was too complicated and would fail. A cassette tape really doesn't have much to grab onto from a mechanical standpoint is the reason for the failure and why many of these didn't sell. UP NEXT: The CD jukebox took its place with much better results and the ability to store much more music before MP3 players came along. Thanks for the post.

@filminginportland1654 7 жыл бұрын

J. Mack it didn't sell well because people knew it would break before too long? Seems like popular items often broke easy, too. Perhaps it sold poorly because of cost?

@mindtekzone 7 жыл бұрын

As I recall Panasonic and Sony were in a tech war to produce a jukebox of some kind. One company had an 8 track version of this and I'm thinking this machine was produced more of a showcase piece. These machines were not common because people I don't think felt it was a big chore to change a single cassette on a individual machine.

@ByeTech 7 жыл бұрын

J. Mack Panasonic and Sony has been fighting for along time until recently " Samsung showed up for the war instead of Panasonic". i'm also an old school tech

@kjaxky 7 жыл бұрын

what about the ridges on the aides of the cassettes it could have locked around those.

@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video on this remarkable machine, Techmoan, and for the additional insight on it, J. Mack. I remember a few Japanese cassette changer models that held 5 or 6 cassettes and had a linear mechanism, but I had no idea someone had made a 20-cassette rotary model. As Mr. Techmoan alludes to at the end of the video, I would have to imagine there must have been a decent market for cassette changers for store background music for stores that wanted long-running continuous music systems that weren't propreitary and neither required a subscription service (Muzak and the like apparently used phone lines and special FM subcarriers, in the days before satellite- and Internet-based delivery), nor special media like radio-station-type carts.

@blackitolism3000 4 жыл бұрын

1:18 This tape collection looks like it's been frozen in time since 1991. I'm taken aback!!

@marco1950-s2b 4 жыл бұрын

Mai visto😂💕

@shapeshifterboogie9853 3 жыл бұрын

well that was the coolest thing ever! Really love the mechanical wizardry of pre-90's audio equipment. Imagine the time spent on coming up with that beast.

@econoroller 7 жыл бұрын

watching your "mechanical montage" again and...this really IS quite a feat of engineering for it's day...love it....totally 70's

@tubbiele2 6 жыл бұрын

Techmoan you made a work of art in that scene, although the clicks and pops from the machine were too loud imho. Well done artist!

@angelzipp 7 жыл бұрын

Watching this machine is hypnotic! Great find, sir. Especially in such a good condition. I'm happy it ended up in a connoisseur's collection, instead of rusting in a basement or attic, or being destroyed. Enjoy it! ... Excellent presentation. Subscribed!

@BoB4jjjjs 4 жыл бұрын

What an amazing machine, the design the thought that went into that. The way it loads the cassette into the player is brilliant, though getting a messed up tape out (as cassettes always manage to do in the end) would be a total nightmare. Very interesting.

@dat_irish_dj 3 жыл бұрын

Serious tape collection, some gems there . Great video as always.

@AdamJRichardson 2 жыл бұрын

Paris' "The Devil Made me do it" - quite a deep cut!

@gizmostudios 7 жыл бұрын

Loved the nod to Kubrick's 2001 with the mech montage

@MKIVWWI 6 жыл бұрын

And to the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss Jr, who composed "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" in 1867. Wow, but they really wrote 'em to last, back then!

@jrporroms 7 жыл бұрын

I loved the mechanical montage

@drwisdom1 4 жыл бұрын

Very good presentation! I still remember when I was a little boy at my friend's house around 1966. He received a birthday present in the mail. He opens it and is really excited and says "its a cassette player, I really wanted one!" I said "what's a cassette?"

@pinecedar180 3 ай бұрын

This channel is so cool. Showing the inner workings in high res. A step above the other tech channels.

@blarfneggs3728 5 жыл бұрын

My grandparents had one of these in there store to play music all day. Brings back some fond memories.

@st3vieuk 7 жыл бұрын

amazing ... so much engineering into that unit

@StarshipSmoochers 3 жыл бұрын

I did have that when I was a kid. Handed down by my dad, to listen to audiobooks in the early 80‘s. Greetings from Germany, your channel is a gem.

@RandallLind 4 жыл бұрын

I am just seeing this video pop up on my feed for the first time. That is freaking cool as hell. I would have loved that back in the 80's when I was a teenager. I never knew they made one.

@Oakman0211 7 жыл бұрын

I absolutely adore these videos. I love seeing all the whacky stuff people came up with and it's super interesting to see how they work! Great work!

@Immashift 5 жыл бұрын

FINALLY. A convenient way to listen to almost the entire 27 hours of the Deathly Hallows I have on cassette tape.

@MrSheckstr 5 жыл бұрын

And skip over a section containing a boring bit

@intheblinkofmyeye7252 4 жыл бұрын

at times the music in the mechanical montage was in time with the various clicking from Panasonic. very satisfying!

@Træfisk 3 жыл бұрын

damn this makes me miss my early 00's sony sterio with 5 cd trays and 2 casette slots! what a beuty it was

@AppliedScience 8 жыл бұрын

You make really great videos! I am happy to support!

@MindBodySoulOk 2 жыл бұрын

Some seriously shitty taste in music however.

@eddiehimself 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was a kid thinking that the cassette player in our car actually had to flip it over to do the auto reverse and wondering how it managed to do it in the confines of a car stereo head unit lol.

@TheHeed1969 3 жыл бұрын

1st tape 'Edward Van Halen'! Even more respect Techmoan!

@iamwiseguyhserusk 3 жыл бұрын

i have watched many of your editions, this is one of the best !

@jeankcosta 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing it on KZfaq!

@danmyself5341 7 жыл бұрын

I was in the electronics repair field for 28 years, and I've never seen one of these machines

@darlenegoodwin6467 5 жыл бұрын

Not me either

@UNSCPILOT 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps that's a statement to the build quality, and or rarity

@MrBrad898540 4 жыл бұрын

I was amazed at how clean and tidy it was on the inside after forty plus years. Of course, someone may have cleaned it recently, but I was impressed to see that even the belt mechanism was still intact. A little dust but hardly anything worry about. Panasonic has always made great products, but you'd be hard pressed to find something like this still working so well after all these years.

@TELLViSiON Жыл бұрын

Do you have a museum to show your amazing collection?… ah, what am I asking, your youtube channel is the best museum for the whole world to watch. I didn’t suspect the majority of those devices even existed. Amazing.

@6doublefive3two1 8 жыл бұрын

Loved the montage. Great work as usual.

@marcianoacuerda 7 жыл бұрын

My god. So many microswitches and actuators. What a marvelous machine. Im kinda ashamed to call myself an engineer haha.

@luca2838 Жыл бұрын

Love how it spins in a very happy manor and then drags its cassette of choice into the underworld.

@frostedbutts4340 Жыл бұрын

Haha I imagine it like the lil aliens in Toy Story.. 'He has been chosen!'

@MrManniG 4 жыл бұрын

The amount of joy the maschine sparks in you is contagious, I love those Videos

@MayaPosch 8 жыл бұрын

That the best kind of mechanical pornography to start the day off with :) I'd also say that this particular machine is more special than the 8-track one because it is actually programmable. The whole control section and different ways of playing back the tapes is fascinating considering the limited technology they were working with back then.

@vadimmartynyuk 8 жыл бұрын

I like the "caution do not remove this cover" sticker. Sort of like "this sign has sharp edges

@R---66---R 4 жыл бұрын

I just subscribed...this particular upload should be Awarded, somehow, somewhere...it just 'should! It's beautiful, especially this classical music part. Thanks, man.

@cooperwilliams7498 Жыл бұрын

This video help me and my grandfather so much we bought the same cassette player in great condition not joking for only 15 dollars at a yard sale so there was some stuff that were screwed with but by seeing this video it helped now it works perfectly.

@cronos222 7 жыл бұрын

That was a lot of hip hop and rap . Don't take this the wrong way but I had you pictured as more of a Phil Collins man .

@matthewarnold5550 5 жыл бұрын

@cronos222 -- Yeah, I was about to say....He's a bit of a Hypocrite...He "Marvels" at 1970's Hi-Fi technology, yet there is NOT one 1970's Album/Cassette title played in that machine......Ridiculous !....SMDH...

@margix1172 5 жыл бұрын

Much much better Phil Collins (he at least is a REAL Musician) than (c)rap garbage.

@biddyfox 5 жыл бұрын

Is it the glasses

@gemasboy 5 жыл бұрын

... Or Elvis Costello

@GraveUypo 7 жыл бұрын

this thing looks more like a tiny factory assembly line than a consumer electronic device.

@scopedpixels 4 жыл бұрын

Mechanical engineering at its finest! Truly a work of art. Thanks!

@SargentRay 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! That was (as usual) super interesting. I didn't know such a device even existed. Thank's for sharing sir.

@TheCyndicate. 7 жыл бұрын

*Wow, awesome. I haven't seen my dad since I was 8, I'm 39, but I wish I could get him one of these, because he was REALLY into gear back then.*

@larryking7255 7 жыл бұрын

I love the design of this machine, and even without rewind or fast forward as an option it's not an issue. I would have gotten so much play out of this for the entirety of the 90s.

@condor5635 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. I was very much into audio equipment in the mid to late 70s but I have never seen this particular machine. Yamaha, Phase Linear, Kenwood, Marantz, B&O. Brings back good memories. Thanks!

@christophersoprano-sculptor 4 жыл бұрын

⭐Love the little ballet of the internal workings.

@morphshag 8 жыл бұрын

beautiful piece of machinery.

@whatlunaticever 7 жыл бұрын

I love these closeups of weird engineering!

@stepheneyles2198 3 жыл бұрын

That Mechanical Montage reminded me of watching fairground organs playing... The music helped no end! Great video and a great machine!

@Dangermouse2256 4 жыл бұрын

Great presentation. You are a real professional speaker - thought I was watching towards 2000! ( futuristic show from Australia)

@econoroller 7 жыл бұрын

What a fascinating, cool and bizarre machine! - I'd sure hate to deal with fixing it after it has eaten a tape way down inside that labyrinthine turntable deck mechanism, though...

@t2p 7 жыл бұрын

That tape collection 👌🏽 Gangstarr 🙏🏽

@jakespeed63 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating indeed!! Love all that early Hi-Fi equipment. Built to last forever. Brilliant!! Thanks so much for all the cool insights. JT Orlando, Fl

@acemobile9806 2 жыл бұрын

I know I'm super late to the party but OMG I was almost in tears watching this gorgeous work of art going thru its paces! There's 1 on eBay now, $850 or best. Seller claims it's all functional & even comes with a full rack of cassettes, even has the cover for the write-on tabs. Matt you're a terrible influence!

@kworksonsite 5 жыл бұрын

Your tape collection is exactly my era of hip hop. The Golden Era

@SlavicUnionGaming 5 жыл бұрын

I love the sounds of gadgets in the morning!!!

@DiscoMatty79 3 жыл бұрын

Me, too. So satisfying.

@e.s.l5861 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve really come to enjoy your channel. Your enthusiasm coupled with your knowledgeable presentation make for excellent videos. I also appreciate your vocabulary as many of these type videos the hosts swear their heads off. Irritating to listen to and, as he gets older, I’m looking forward to watching these with my step-son, as he shows an interest in fiddly little mechanisms and the like. Thankyou for all your work

@nawe_13 2 жыл бұрын

This is so amazing. Incredible technology. Thank you for showing it to us!

@notconsenting6633 6 жыл бұрын

just found your channel today and subed. great content thanx😎👍

@havkki417 6 жыл бұрын

Increíble esta máquina. Nunca había visto ésta clase de aparatos. Además lo has abierto para mostrárnoslo por dentro. Guauuuuuuu

@shnibby69 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I remember this machine from print ads; my friends and I couldn’t afford to buy them back in the 70’s. Thanks for showing it’s operation!

@danielwilder7835 3 жыл бұрын

thats got to be one of the coolest things you've ever reviewed, love it

@syrop26 7 жыл бұрын

I love the way he recorded KZfaq music so that he doesn't violate copyright law.

@coolguy2370 8 жыл бұрын

I just found a technics 1200 in the garbage and its in fully working condition sorry this has nothing to do with the video but I'm just extremely excited and a had to tell someone

@javaking1000 8 жыл бұрын

Does it actually work well? Those are great turntables - damn that's quite a find, congratulations!

@coolguy2370 8 жыл бұрын

+javaking1000 thanks yeah it works great i was actually saving up for the audio technica lp120 now I don't have to

@FullOfMalarky 8 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, that's amazing

@Fireship1 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent turntable. One hell of a find! Congrats

@james_fisch 8 жыл бұрын

So that's where my mom put it when she asked me to move out! Haha can i have it back

@bernardstander7642 4 жыл бұрын

That's a nice bit of kit right there!!! Awesome video!!!

@niobi9999 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Incredible that you found one in such good, working condition!

@michaelimmaculate7433 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that “do not remove cover”... it made me laugh, I needed that hahaha ! 🤣

@10p6 8 жыл бұрын

For a 40 year old device that is in excellent condition. Are those original belts?

@MalleusSemperVictor 8 жыл бұрын

I doubt it. In the part where he takes off the bottom to reveal the inside he mentions the main motor and he says it has a new belt on it. Come to think of it, that micro switch looks suspiciously new.

@10p6 8 жыл бұрын

Hmm, I don't know how I missed that part.

@MalleusSemperVictor 8 жыл бұрын

john carlaw I wonder, even back then belts should have been made from synthetic rubber. Does synthetic rubber rot like natural rubber?

@filminginportland1654 7 жыл бұрын

john carlaw same here! In that order, too.

@magnushmann 7 жыл бұрын

He said new belts in the video. 8:59