I can't understand some people complaining about the quality of this setup. You are watching "the post apocalyptic inventor", he has to make do with what he has, and he did an exelent job imo...

Your knowledge of English never fails to amaze me. I know skilled machinists who do not even know what the word "swarf" means. Fun video, as always.

I and my friends used to take old am car radios and convert for home use, the receivers were very sensitive and had great audio, I still like to listen to OTR on Mp3, there are tons of old shows to be had for free, the shows are before my time but still great to hear, thanks for your great channel...

A bit of insulation, or anything soft inside the speaker enclosure would fix the boominess of the speakers. The boxes are a resonant cavity, and without something soft inside, certain sound ranges will come out much louder.

I think the industrial look is phenomenal. It almost has that Fallout look to it. Great Job!

11:39 - That music sounds like the stuff they play inside an Irish pub toilet while I'm taking a sh*t...

I have hundreds of audiobooks on tape. Some of which aren't available anymore anywhere else. Slowly but surely digitising them.

I've just watched a couple of other boom box videos from great Scott and others. I'm coming back to yours because it totally kicks all their asses. What I love about your method is the up cycling of parts that would otherwise be landfill, and your post apocalyptic industrial aesthetic. Really love it. Keep on trucking brother.

I still listen to audio cassettes to this day since 1991, including records (vinyls), and CDs. My car stereo has a Radio, CD, and audio cassette players in it, and an iPod adapter installed at Best Buy back in 2010. Hell, I have a dual Sony tape deck, and a couple of VCRs, and three CRTs (2 TV sets (1 is a PVM), and a computer monitor).

I like the metal case. Thanks for sharing!

This takes me WAY back. In about 1985 or 1986 My "Boom Box" was a Pioneer car stereo, with cassette of course, mounted in a box that used to hold a great big old "condenser" analyzer from the 1940's. I bolted a couple of 6X9's to the side of it that I had mounted in a couple small plywood boxes. I had it set up to either be plugged in to the wall with an internal power supply, or to run off of a small garden mower battery. I mounted a handle on top that was off an old tool box. I really didn't carry that beast far, but it WAS loud, which was all that mattered to me as someone about 16 or 17 years old.

Reading the comments, I see that this video attracts plenty of "audiophile" type logic. I guess I should avoid making videos about things audio!

By the way, those off brand "shammy" cloths, which are made of rayon fibre make for excellent deadening material to put inside of a speaker. You don't need much, and it makes quite a difference!

so many modifications to the tape deck car stereo good job. and it's awesome you using old electronics for parts and making things work.

Great video, very detailed. Plus great guy, clear and good sense of humor. Good work mate!

Your channel is something that I was searching. Thanks for the upload.

I am a rare one I still listen to 8 tracks and cassets. I do like the idea of adding rca and other options. Very nice information.

Sounded like the start of a good mad-scientist "Muahahaha!" laugh there @ 20:17

fantastic work mr von ziegler, a well done finished project doing it the hard way by using the cassette player as the donor parts master.

Oops, you said 8705 instead of 7805, when I worked in an electronics retailer I got a lot of people doing the same project and I quickly got sick of hearing about it. Glad to see you've done it properly as usual

Well done. I enjoyed the end very much.

I love your videos and your german accent

You done a splendid job regarding transformation of the car stereo, well done.🙏

Very nice video......especially the last part, therapeutic

Hi, Thank you for this video. I managed to salvage couple of speakers same as the one you used from an old TV along with a TDA7266s audio amplifier chip. Now, you inspired me to do something with it.

Nice one.. When I was a kid back in the mid eighties, I had, in my room, a self-built wooden enclosure with an old mono autoradio and a power supply in it. The speaker boxes were also homemade, using loudspeakers from a scrapped ghettoblaster, including bass ports with a length of tube, and insulation material, as suggested by Matthias below.

Very nice job. You are one smart cookie.

been wondering on that for a while, thanks!

Superb project sir :D

Nice work!

Excellent project! Interesting, factual and funny video. One of your best.

I'm using a car amplifier and a fitting subwoofer+speakers for months now and everything is working very nice

great video by an awesome man , thanks

Like your videos, gives me a lot of inspiration for recycling electronics.

i love the way it looks

Fantastic!

I don't know anything about building resonance boxes for speakers, but i think adding a hole for free movement of air would give the speaker more freedom to move. Good video as always

I enjoy watching your videos. Yeah especially your accent and your abundant knowledge. It was difficult to see those cassettes being hammered and destroyed. May be that could be avoided. Just a thought.

Awesome, and nice destruction on the end ;) Thumbs up :D Alex

I use a car radio too for the house. For a different reason- the radio inside has excellent sensitivity for weak signals we get in Australia, and good noise rejection too. I bought a brand new Kenwood for $60, already had blue tooth and line in, just needed speakers and power, I used Kenwood car speakers in a well designed box, and it performs like a hifi.

Hilarious sponsorship outreach. My son loved it. So did I. I think you meant to say "eight and seventy" instead of "eighty seven". I love that you find a way to make use of all this trash from the curb. I'm hoping that If I watch enough of your videos, one day I will be so inventive.

your videos are good

Awesome !!!

I love it.

One time firend ask me for AUX for old radio in car, I just soldered jack connector wires to main board to main audio chip and with it my friend was able to connect smartphone to him 70s car audio :D In my home im using car audio 600W amplifier(lol, weight is about 10kg), and 200W subwoofer, both salvaged from dumpster, amplifier was working but there was broken RCA connectors, in subwoofer problem was with speaker internal wire, that is connected to moving part of speaker(sorry, idk right word). Dad also give me damaged, polish made 40W speakers, they had damaged rubber part that hold moving part of speaker in place, but I was able to order via internet restoration parts, only few euro. Im powering this system from extremly HQ, HI-END server SMPS with 685W of power, there is no noise, because this SMPS run at high Freq, above 200kHz so unhearable level, I paid only 20EUR for this supply that is worth of 200EUR+ So, I have very loud speaker system almost for free.

Good fun and useful information. Somehow we need to get you into country music from West Texas.

I would love idea's on a board that will have chaser capabilities for l.e.d's that flash with the music . Oh !!! GREAT STUFF MAN !!! KEEP UP THE AWESOME HACKS !!!

Finally you start doing some blacksmithing videos!

I am keep using cassetes today!! Don't laugh and DON"T destroy cassettes.... Save cassettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really enjoy your vids, great work.

Sir you are a maddddddd scientist !

I tried to get a Nakamichi H/U when I was building car audio years back, but ending up with a good deal on an Eclipse 8054 (I think thats the right model). I have been playing with a lot of different amplifier boards lately, and have had a lot of fun with the TI TPA311x class of chips. They have outstanding performance, and with homemade active crossovers or DSP they can make some nice active multiway drivers. I haven't got around to printing my own boards yet, but you can get a Sure audio TPA3110d2 board for less then $10 USD.

I like him he works with what he has.

I just did this for a sound system for my garage. Even down to the same concept of using scraps laying around to build it. How ever I used a old dell ATX psu. I'm not experiencing any noise like you said from the psu. I watched this video because I'm trying to figure out an antenna for it lol.

Woah, fascinating.

Good Job🆗

You are so lucky to find stuff like this for waste. Here in the Netherlands, just across the border, nothing. I have to go and buy it from a second hand store and negotiate the price.

wow kewl....

Thanks for the reply! It's been quite a while since I fooled around with these... I wonder in retail stores where they have the demo display of car stereos, what kind of power supply they are running... Might be worth snatching one up if a store goes out of business.

just subscribed today after watching your video on building the Fallout 4 computer in a '1973 TV set... Your projects are amazing and I am taking notes. I would donate if I had more money.

Thats some McGuyver Stuff there! Cool

Dude, you're GOD. Your projects are KILLER!

a little secret with modern car units (well, past about 2006 or so) all the chip amps in them are rated for up to 18V. i have litteraly a closet full of radios, from factory to aftermarket, and ALL of the aftermarket ones i have dont complain on 16V. can get over 20W into 4 ohms on 16V. they do run a little hotter, heatsink measured around 140-150f BUT since your only running 2 of the 4 channels when used at home, thats within the safe limits of the chips

hey, nc to see you are back and uploading videos! how was your trip?

05:34 "Nobody uses cassettes in the 21ˢᵗ century anymore..." I can heavily argue with this! 😶 I have many cassettes and yes, I using them, even I record stuff onto empty tapes! I even have 3 car radios in my room, and I like to occasionally play cassettes with them! I like the analogue sound of tapes, and the feeling of sitting in front of a pair of stereo speakers, oh... 😏 📼

Imagine what could be constructed from all the world's junk!

You need to throw in a couple of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying in your video for a little comic relief, like "Get to the chopper", "It's not a brain tumor". Nice video.

TPAI: Nobody uses cassetes on theese days! Techmoan and 8 Bit Guy: Well no.

lol that ending sequence. Donate OR I WILL MURDER MORE CASSETTE TAPES :D

If you use a ground loop isolation transformer for each channel between your Bluetooth module and the amplifier, you can eliminate that buzzing noise.

I found this video to be very enjoyable to watch. I have subscribed! I have a wonderment though. Would it be possible to see the same thing done, but with new high end car audio? I would like to build one using high power speakers and a head unit with a high power amplifier. I'm curious mostly about what kind of power supply I could purchase to power such a project?

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor+Can you do a shop tour plz ?

I wish I knew as much as you about electronic parts and how to use them. Lots of respect for your ability. How did you develop your interest in electronic parts and how to use them properly?

epic and it looks like something out of Fallout!

thank you for doing a video ! This is awesome. I want to study practical electronics - would you please suggest where and how I can start ?

I'll like to find out how you fix the feedback noise from Bluetooth as I have it my car stereo also.

Kids in Africa could had eaten that cassette deck...

loudspeaker, der war gut xD

I still use cassetes from time to time, but most importantly those motors are very interesting, the run at a constant speed, no matter the voltage. If you put them on a big cap they will run for a couple of minutes then stop abruptly

Smashing things literally replaces your blood with endorphin. :D

You must not be a fan of the +DrCassette channel. haha

One question, those boxes you used for the speakers you made, looked like old speaker housings, where they? If you get the time/materials to hand, I'd love to see a detailed video on making speakers from scrap parts.

That's a very informative video, now I know what to do with my old car-stereo. Do you not like cassette tapes?

Loved the ending!!!

what is that rca block (the little silver panel with all the rca connections on it) used for in your bench setup? is it just like a giant hub?

Mad scientist laugh at the end! :D

cool

And I still use Cassettes Dear - from 1981 to 1995 era - work perfectly fine on ken wood deck (purchase in trash) !

That looks cook I do to use types records cbs 8 tracks MP3 s are ok now I'm working on a boom tool box all pioneer stuff .

I want to add my old lg tone to my car stereo cd player since I'm not using it. but I don't know what to look for to connect it.

I love that ending! xD

gonna find and hang out with this guy once humanity goes to shit

Do you have a video of adding a 3.5mm headphone jack to a old boombox such as the one you added a line in jack and Bluetooth too, If so could you send me a link to your video please. Thank you

nice build..the only problem is that the radio has a code you would have lo keep the transformer on at all times so the radio does not loose power..so if you could do a bypass of the code..only using hardware and no atmega or something like that it would be lovely

love it. especially the end. :) in your testing with atx power supply, you might find that the noise is actually from ground loops from signal sources rather than switchers themselves being noisy. That's been the case in my experience and it is easy to dismiss it as "smps is noisy, thats why linear is usually used for audio applications" but it's good to check first before dismissing it.

i was thinking about this lol

I just love non replaceable incandescent bulbs.

How many amps should the power supply be? So I can be on the lookout for them so save.

Love your videos and your approach. I am learning a great deal. One request/suggestion. The 3300 uF capacitor on the power supply is quite large and I dont yet understand exactly what caps are doing for the circuit. If, in future videos, you could speak to that more about how these components are sized. Was that just what was provided by the Halogen lamp or did you have to size it by some other criteria? Also practical bodger insights would be welcome, like if you did not have any of that size how you would make decisions about putting two smaller ones together in parallel? Would it be important that they match or just add up to the final desired value. I love what you are doing with this old stuff and more of your insights and practical design considerations would be lovely.

this guy is like Oscar the Grouch or somethings! LOL