What a 10hr music playlist looked like in 1992

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8 жыл бұрын

Creating a playlist of your favourite tunes can take quite a while - but spare a thought for the mixtape playlist pioneers of 20-odd years ago. In 1992 playing 10 uninterrupted hours of your own selection of music took a lot more preparation and used some rather specialised Hi-Fi equipment.
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@LGR 8 жыл бұрын

Whoa. I have never seen a cassette changer like this before. I WANT ONE.

@adwaitagnome 8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews i wonder how a high end cassette changer would play today's music compared to a modern computer

@ValugaTheLord 8 жыл бұрын

+Devin Hepburn on a tape.

@WestleyWolf 8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews I used to have these back in 1999. but i also had a CD changer to go with that as well.

@Hbomb117 8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews Oh hey, you. You come here often?

@adwaitagnome 8 жыл бұрын

Girth Control i have seen LGR here every once and a while. I also see him pretty often on Roadgeek's channel.

@wal 8 жыл бұрын

Alpine made an car cassette changer back in the late 80's. They are exceptionally rare, I'd love to get one to show in a video.

@DjVendetta 2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find one?

@superotterboy1737 3 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful piece of engineering. As a programmer I can seriously appreciate the simplicity of what seems like a complicated concept. It sounds cliché but honestly, no one builds quality and innovation like this these days; at least, not to that level of quality. Fantastic vid.

@christmascarl2000 8 жыл бұрын

There is something extremely wholesome about watching a tape whirl round in a tape machine. Very nice player from Sony.

@Jack2Japan 8 жыл бұрын

I really like the little "outro" cartoons you've started doing.

@rjolly87 8 жыл бұрын

I own one of these as well, and I love it! $6 score at a thrift store. it works pretty well but can be a bit fiddly sometimes. Keep up the good work!

@evanpapp93 8 жыл бұрын

I bought this exact unit on craigslist for 50$ after watching "cassettes better than you dont remember video" the capstan motor need some sewing machine oil but it works perfectly now! great recordings and sounds great, the fact that it can hold 5 cassettes is just a bonus!

@CanisArctus 8 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, this is the most interesting channel I've seen in years. Been binge-watching a lot of your stuff today! I can't wait to see more of what you're doing in the future! :)

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

+Canis Arctus thanks for popping in...although I think I maybe better in small doses...I imagine that I'll start to grate after a while.

@cysper479 4 жыл бұрын

Same☺️ I came here since last week after seeing a review about Vinyl Video then I get interested about things☺️

@vladimircrumbo2962 8 жыл бұрын

I bought a pioneer 6 cassette changer around the same time and it has been working very well, and is handling 120 min tapes well

@wrathofbod 8 жыл бұрын

my wife had those in 3 of her shops that she was a manager of at the time(1993?), i remember spending hours making mix tapes for her over the Christmas/Holiday season for all three shops. Never Again.

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

+Wrath Of Bod at least it backs up my story that one of the uses for these multi-tape machines was to provide background music in shops.

@clifffton 6 жыл бұрын

I still have the Pioneer 6 cassette changer. When it jams it is a terror!

@cdamian 7 жыл бұрын

I had one of these. Well the T-C5. I loved it and used it for recording long radio broadcasts. I was very sad when it stopped working.

@mikeswatches2480 8 жыл бұрын

Have to say this . . this channel is excellent . .I've spent many hours watching these videos and really appreciate the level of detail you go into . . .

@PrinceLX 8 жыл бұрын

This has blown my newly 24-year-old mind. That is SO cool! It's got a real Batman vibe to it as well.

@thepurpleendereye 3 жыл бұрын

I just found one of these at goodwill and it seems to work amazing which is great, it clearly needs new belts though cause at first it wasn’t playing the tapes and the door wouldn’t open properly. I’m a bit terrified to try and repair it, it’s my first ever cassette deck or piece of audio equipment ever essentially. Super excited to use this in the future! Edit: it was 30 dollars by the way

@darendee5682 3 жыл бұрын

I had one back in the 90's, it was pretty cool for a Sony.

@terryboardman4667 8 жыл бұрын

I'm still using hi-fi separates from the ninety's and they still sound great to me.

@michaelb9664 8 жыл бұрын

That's because they still are great! :-)

@MaunoKoivistoOfficial 8 жыл бұрын

You have great taste in music.

@defamatt 7 жыл бұрын

Especially for the 2min 57s songs

@MasterKofficial 6 жыл бұрын

Nice Machine, love the change mechanism =D i have a Pioneer CT-M6R from 1989 :)

@nextsegment78 4 жыл бұрын

Remember it very vividly from the 150 pages Sony catalogues... Wish I had never thrown them away. Nostalgic memories

@bananakin94 8 жыл бұрын

You got Rakim and Gangstarr on tape?! You are a certified G.

@BuccaneerBruce 6 жыл бұрын

I noticed that Step In The Arena

@esnebta 5 жыл бұрын

Masta Ace - Take A Look Around!

@marymoonchild2801 8 жыл бұрын

wow nice thing, we never had anything like this at home just a regular cassette player. i was born in 92, but my earliest memories are of my then teenage godmother recording songs from radio on a cassettes, my father had a lot of interesting stuff like Accept, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, ZZ Top...when i was six in 1998, my parents got me walkman and i played all cassettes that my parents and godmother gathered, but then CDs came and all that collection ended up forgotten somewhere in the attic ( maybe im going to try to find them now that im nostalgic ). Now im dedicated collector of lp records, there is nothing like a music on a vinyl.

@weeraanmelden 8 жыл бұрын

Did not came for the opening of the Cassette device, came for your music selection :) Love the old skool rap tapes. And your videos :)

@4BetaMale2 8 жыл бұрын

I never knew they even made a cassette player that played more than two Tapes. Good video.

@jetset2070 8 жыл бұрын

Love the old skool hip hop collection. :)

@breadwarandcircus 8 жыл бұрын

Potatoes will never be able to film in HD... they get too hot and burn their chips. I have been reading the contents of too many Christmas crackers. Sorry. ...I will get my coat.

@ComicGladiator 6 жыл бұрын

Surely you mean get your jacket?

@stevegreen8262 5 жыл бұрын

@@ComicGladiator bah dum, chssss.

@joaquinjimenez207 8 жыл бұрын

oh my god this is my dream cassette player

@WigWagWorkshop 8 жыл бұрын

Back in my day, my play list was on Reel-To-Reel, I was the "man" and everyone had a blast at my house parties. Never seen this bit of equipment before.

@Dan-TechAndMusic 8 жыл бұрын

I always found those decks fascinating, nice to see you have one! The rare 180 minute TDK tape was quite something. They, only for a few years if not just a year, made a 180 minute version of the TDK D tape. It had a special mechanism inside to make sure the tape wouldn't go off the reels. It recorded very poorly, but I suspect voice recording would be OK. Still, the tapes, despite the mechanism, screwed up fairly easily, so TDK shot down the tape very early on. Pioneer also made a nice tape changer that used a drawer system that could hold 6 tapes. Still, it's nowhere near as cool looking as you couldn't see the tapes being played.

@super3nicolas 8 жыл бұрын

the last part 😂😂😂😂

@sci3ntologist 8 жыл бұрын

I've actually seen a few of these, but all of them were in commercial use. they're really handy for backround music in a restaurant or similar setting where you can just set and forget it and not have to hear the same tracks as often.

@CopyrightedUsername 8 жыл бұрын

Recently turned 19 here, have a Sony TC-WR521 and I adore it. It's also from '92 and basically has all the bells and whistles this does, just a double deck rather than a 5 changer. Between this, my pioneer cld-2710k laserdisc and vsx-d514 receiver, sony record player and walkmans (both radio and cassette), I'm very thankful for your videos because I at least know there's somebody out there that mutually understands.

@Perplexer1 8 жыл бұрын

"Let me just switch off this potato". Hahaha.

@devjock 8 жыл бұрын

Your taste in audio equipment is unmatched. Thanks for the history on this, I had no idea there were devices like this. Cool tech, cool conversation piece, and quality all around. They don't make 'em like this anymore.. Now if you could only find a cassette form factor mp3 player, that can actually be rewound and fast forwarded by conventional cassette methods (ea; small sensors in the mp3 cassette spindles) then your tech would come full circle ;)

@DanOConnorTech 8 жыл бұрын

That's a sweet changer. You're right about some of the other systems complexity. I have one of the Philips N2401 6-cassette changers with the "ski-slope" recirculator chute from the late 1960's and it *is* a nightmare. I've never been able to get it working properly. Thanks for showing this!

@alcoholisfreedrink 5 жыл бұрын

So this is from 1992... It's ahead of it's time. It looks very modern.

@williamng8255 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting..... as someone not yet alive at that time it's quite fascinating to see how far technology has come since then

@FSXNOOB 8 жыл бұрын

Good old times.. when i was sitting in front of the radio waiting for that one song, then record and stop it on time.. listen it back 300 times.... nostalgia :)

@58jharris 6 жыл бұрын

I always got so annoyed when a DJ would talk over the song when you were trying to record it lol.

@harshnemesis 6 жыл бұрын

I always had to record it multiple times because I wanted the very beginning, didn't realize I could just start the tape early and then cut it by recording it to another tape in the other deck.

@58jharris 6 жыл бұрын

You know I never thought about doing that either. Seems kind of strange now.

@harshnemesis 6 жыл бұрын

Well the good side of that was it didn't degrade the quality the second time, I mean there are already 2 layers of degradation from a copy you could get in the store.

@user-rd6vf7xk1x 4 жыл бұрын

Really loving your back catalogue. Immensely grateful for all your hard work!

@bobbobson4069 4 жыл бұрын

Another fascinating and well produced documentary video. Enjoyed it very much! Thanks Techmoan

@HNedel 8 жыл бұрын

When "thanks for watching" came, I was soo happy to see there is more than a minute left, since this probably meant another post-credit scene. Wasn't disappointed at all! Oh, and the deck was quite nice, never knew they existed.

@godfatherNYC 8 жыл бұрын

I certainly remember this era! Although I never saw one of these 5-Cassette Changers! Thanks, great video.

@aljr357 8 жыл бұрын

I've never seen one of these in the stores in Canada back in the early 90s either and this is the first time I've ever seen one thank you .

@renancercilier 8 жыл бұрын

such a beautiful machine, love this aluminium panel.

@jolmeaki 8 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Never knew things like this were made with cassettes.

@gingerelvis 8 жыл бұрын

Always notice you have some decent hip hop in your collection!

@sushantgupta9336 2 жыл бұрын

Very amazing. How the owner feel proud on these days back in 1992. ❤️❤️

@robshorts 8 жыл бұрын

Another thing I never knew existed and what a lovely design of machine.

@geekanoids 8 жыл бұрын

Wishing you a Happy New Year. Dave.

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

+Geekanoids and to you too Dave - we're both part of the same little UK-centric tech corner on youtube.

@Norlink 8 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the memorys...Sudenlly felt realy old lol. Thanks!

@BigGuyReview 8 жыл бұрын

WOW I had no idea that these things were out there. the first long play machine I got was a pioneer 50 disc changer. Great video. -John

@duck2soup 8 жыл бұрын

Another fascinating machine you have found here. You never cease to amaze me with the stuff you show. I never knew anything like this existed.

@Whitbypoppers 8 жыл бұрын

I'm enjoying your end-of-video foray into puppetry!

@Couch.Island 8 жыл бұрын

The potato was the best part. Clever that.

@RobertLeBlancPhoto 5 жыл бұрын

I not only owned this Sony 5 cassette changer, I also owned the Sony 100 CD Jukebox. They sat proudly on top of my Sony ES77 receiver. Damn I'm old. :)

@ekiswoes 8 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing! Greetings from South Africa!

@gizmostudios 7 жыл бұрын

I wish I could've had you as a cool uncle when I was I kid, my whole room ended up being filled with all kinds of obscure audio and video equipment :D My parents however weren't so impressed with my ability to turn any floor into a city landscape of parts and tools. Good times

@mstrshkbrnnn1999 7 жыл бұрын

Bert Hermans if only man :/

@Crlarl 7 жыл бұрын

Bert Hermans Me too...

@ForrestBobHD 6 жыл бұрын

Eyup.....I know how that goes :P

@ToothyFilms 8 жыл бұрын

There was a way cheaper method! By setting a VCR to SP mode gave 6 hours of high quality tape-able music. I did that for all my poker games back in the early to mid nineties.

@tcpnetworks 8 жыл бұрын

+William Wegerson Yeah - Same here. I had an Akai VHS Stereo machine. Was awesome.

@ToothyFilms 8 жыл бұрын

+Adrian Black It wasn't like it was from a `Nakamichi` tape deck, but it was good enough for my drunk poker friends. :-)

@ogami1972 8 жыл бұрын

just chiming in: this is one of my most favorite channels. Thank you for such interesting, informative and just plain fun videos.

@BuccaneerBruce 6 жыл бұрын

I've never seen one of those, I worked in a record store from 1989-1994 part time and when I started we already had the 5 disc changers for our music floor.

@peerfunk 8 жыл бұрын

hahah the outro is the best :D love it

@zetecfiesta 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful machine

@GerritTjaardAMarinus 8 жыл бұрын

been a sony fan for years, and i never seen this machine anywhere. Its awsome!

@readyrepairs 8 жыл бұрын

oh god. please continue taking everything you review apart. salivating.

@yorgle 8 жыл бұрын

Another option back then (which I used back in college) was VHS Hi-Fi. Much better (arguable?) sound quality than cassette, even on the SLP/EP 6 hour mode. Throw in a T-160 tape in there and get 8 hours on one tape!

@bobbyberetta4206 8 жыл бұрын

I use to do that and make my own videos as well with a little help with my Realistic radio shack mixer.

@mikewolf78 8 жыл бұрын

I recommend staying for after-credits scene.

@SteveMajor 7 жыл бұрын

I still have my Pioneer CT-M66R. Still cool after all these years!

@rwj777 5 жыл бұрын

I still own this Sony model deck and I absolutely love it! Still plays like a dream after all these years later!

@jean-pierrem34 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I wanted to read. Thank you!

@jean-pierrem34 3 жыл бұрын

Mine too...

@BigMack2020 8 жыл бұрын

Now that is one cool device and i would love to own one just for owning one im a sucker for vintage teck

@stonedcommander 8 жыл бұрын

Cool machine, I've never seen one but imagine this was top of the line...Those puppets shoot video with the same camera I use:)

@TheRobertSt 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I'm 62, and this is the first time I've heard of such a device! More of these videos please!

@DJPsyq 7 жыл бұрын

I had one of these growing up!! I used to love the noises it made.

@wokeisnonsense 8 жыл бұрын

I love the puppet sequence at the end.

@StuartTaylorEsquire 8 жыл бұрын

Hey +Techmoan you got me all misty eyed thinking about 1992, including visiting Dixons and asking the unsuspecting sales person what the difference was between Dolby B and Dolby C. Am i just being a rose tinted fool, or was HiFi in 1992 more exciting?

@Techmoan 8 жыл бұрын

+Stuart Taylor No you aren't looking through rose tinted glasses - old HiFi is infinitely more interesting than modern HiFi equipment which is much too serious (and expensive).

@Patres87 8 жыл бұрын

You never cease to amaze with this this awesome state of the art tech of the past. Thank you !

@chukidee6634 8 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, my brother emailed this video for me to watch. Ahhh those snazzy designs on those Maxell and TDK cassette tapes bring back 90s memories. Your review makes me want to buy this Sony tape deck as a collector. 😊

@kd1s 8 жыл бұрын

Never ever saw one of these. My solution in 1992 was a 101 CD changer. That also used a carousel arrangement.

@ayemchunt1714 4 жыл бұрын

That would have been the Onkyo DX-C101. Quite a good player in its day.

@outlawcountryman 8 жыл бұрын

I want one lol. I have over 1250 tapes and that number is rapidly growing

@beerman1957 8 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic job, Mat! Thanks!

@lenovovo 8 жыл бұрын

WOW ....... Techmoan, now that's a pretty neat machine there! Although I know that it's old, I would still own one today. Thanks for posting this video Techmoan! Have a great day! :-)

@techninefan90 8 жыл бұрын

Wow I had no idea there were cassette changers. This is pretty cool.

@fulanitoflyer 8 жыл бұрын

after your videos, i always go to EBAY to see how much the reviewed items are going for...

@defamatt 7 жыл бұрын

So do I! ahaha

@MrAtheHun 8 жыл бұрын

Yet another great video, thank you so much. Happy New year.

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

AWW Yes... the old TDK SA-90.. it was a regular consumable in my youth.. blowing my allowance on blank tapes so i could record from the vinyl records that my friends and i would pool together to make a sweet library... those tapes absorbed a lot of my teenage wealth in trade for "free music" LOL :)

@maxwillson 7 жыл бұрын

That ending was pretty funny ahahaha!

@ian_b 8 жыл бұрын

Makes me feel very old.

@dominicfong6341 8 жыл бұрын

It is a real eye opener, thank you very much! Never knew such an animal existed!

@TheHitmanAgent 3 жыл бұрын

Techmoan, you never cease to amaze me! You always come out with a format, or a player of some sort from the past that I've never heard about Respect!

@amcluesent 8 жыл бұрын

I don't recall that machine either, must have been rare

@PianoVideosJustForU 8 жыл бұрын

Damn, I wanted to see that TV remote review recorded with a potato in the dark, I would've subscribed.

@videogalore 6 жыл бұрын

Continually impressed by your music collection! Paid In Full, Juice! - Superb!

@n64ever 8 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic video by good sir knight TechMoan. Keep up the great work!

@coolbreez773 8 жыл бұрын

Many lids watching this won't even know what a cassette is!

@PascalGienger 8 жыл бұрын

I used a Hi-Fi VHS video recorder for such long audio mixes. In Long play mode (Europe) you got 8 hours out of a 4 hours cassette in noise-free Hi-Fi (recording alongside the video signal via rotating heads). Was very cheap - the sound quality was exactly the same in LP as in SP. Good Hi Fi VHS decks had a switch to turn off video processing to further reduce noise when using audio only. The only problem was tracking, the older the recording on the cassette got the more it was prone to a knocking sound like a single piston engine when the electronic tracking did not catch it any more (tape dilatation).

@christmascarl2000 8 жыл бұрын

+Pascal “Le Bakala” Gienger Thats cool stuff. Did they ever release music on VHS HI FI?, i know they obviously had videos of concerts etc, but i wonder if they ever tried just music on the tape?

@PascalGienger 8 жыл бұрын

+Christmas Carl I am not aware of any audio-only prerecorded Hi-Fi VHS cassette. There were music videos / video albums available though. There were also some quite nice demonstration tapes for shop displays, where very good loudspeakers and amplifiers were used to demonstrate that STEREO(!) "Hey tadata it is STEREO!" effect of the new Hi-Fi VHS era. I preferred to buy this kind of stuff on LaserDisc, The Pet Shop Boys issued some really good LaserDiscs as albums.

@tartarughaninja4 8 жыл бұрын

+Pascal Gienger “Le Bakala” i still have a fisher hifi vhs with manual tracking , audio-only recording and level knob and meters. sounds OK, tracking tends to skip even on new recordings because the video heads are quite worn. the image is all fuzzy and blotchy. but it's SP only... was good for recording FM radio and making mix tapes later on

@tartarughaninja4 8 жыл бұрын

Rob F at the time, difference in audio quality was not so perceivable. the rare dropouts didn't sound bad (like fm interference) and switch to linear mono was short enough so nobody cared. and ps - pal sp speed is 2.4cm/s, LP is 1.2. hifi on LP was quite good actually, giving 8-10 hours of interupted music.

@sithompson74 7 жыл бұрын

Love the vids and totally understand the humor. Fast becoming one of my all time favorite channels. Keep up the great work

@rockboy360 8 жыл бұрын

Still looks dope, modern and classy today! awesome design!

@MurcuryEntertainment 8 жыл бұрын

God that bit at the end with the puppets killed me.

@Fam2014Ch 7 жыл бұрын

Great videos my friend,,,, thanks a lot seriously, my night shifts pass quicker since I found your channel. Thanks from a Chilean fan in London. \m/ (btw... can we use the Skip the blank to skip the muppets? ;-) Salute !!!)