What a 10hr music playlist looked like in 1992
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- čas přidán 29. 12. 2015
- 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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Whoa. I have never seen a cassette changer like this before. I WANT ONE.
+Lazy Game Reviews i wonder how a high end cassette changer would play today's music compared to a modern computer
+Devin Hepburn on a tape.
+Lazy Game Reviews I used to have these back in 1999. but i also had a CD changer to go with that as well.
+Lazy Game Reviews Oh hey, you. You come here often?
Girth Control
i have seen LGR here every once and a while. I also see him pretty often on Roadgeek's channel.
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.
Did you ever find one?
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.
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!
There is something extremely wholesome about watching a tape whirl round in a tape machine. Very nice player from Sony.
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!
I really like the little "outro" cartoons you've started doing.
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
This has blown my newly 24-year-old mind. That is SO cool! It's got a real Batman vibe to it as well.
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! :)
+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.
Same☺️ I came here since last week after seeing a review about Vinyl Video then I get interested about things☺️
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.
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 . . .
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
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.
+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.
I still have the Pioneer 6 cassette changer. When it jams it is a terror!
Nice Machine, love the change mechanism =D i have a Pioneer CT-M6R from 1989 :)
I'm still using hi-fi separates from the ninety's and they still sound great to me.
That's because they still are great! :-)
I never knew they even made a cassette player that played more than two Tapes. Good video.
I had one back in the 90's, it was pretty cool for a Sony.
Remember it very vividly from the 150 pages Sony catalogues... Wish I had never thrown them away. Nostalgic memories
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.
"Let me just switch off this potato". Hahaha.
So this is from 1992... It's ahead of it's time. It looks very modern.
Did not came for the opening of the Cassette device, came for your music selection :)
Love the old skool rap tapes.
And your videos :)
You got Rakim and Gangstarr on tape?!
You are a certified G.
I noticed that Step In The Arena
Masta Ace - Take A Look Around!
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 ;)
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.
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.
You have great taste in music.
Especially for the 2min 57s songs
the last part 😂😂😂😂
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. :)
oh my god this is my dream cassette player
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.
Surely you mean get your jacket?
@@ComicGladiator bah dum, chssss.
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.
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! :-)
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!
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.
Interesting..... as someone not yet alive at that time it's quite fascinating to see how far technology has come since then
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.
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
Love the old skool hip hop collection. :)
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
Bert Hermans if only man :/
Bert Hermans
Me too...
Eyup.....I know how that goes :P
Interesting! I'm 62, and this is the first time I've heard of such a device! More of these videos please!
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.
Always notice you have some decent hip hop in your collection!
I certainly remember this era! Although I never saw one of these 5-Cassette Changers! Thanks, great video.
OMG, I`m 58, but I`ve never seen this awesome baby before - thanks for sharing
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 .
Very nice. Never knew things like this were made with cassettes.
The potato was the best part. Clever that.
Another thing I never knew existed and what a lovely design of machine.
i thought i saw everything in my life. untill i subscribed to your channel fiew years ago
I'm enjoying your end-of-video foray into puppetry!
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 :)
I always got so annoyed when a DJ would talk over the song when you were trying to record it lol.
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.
You know I never thought about doing that either. Seems kind of strange now.
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.
My uncle once mentioned that he used a video recorder with a 4 hour tape (if need be in longplay mode) as the longest and cheapest audio medium back in the mid to late 90s
Back in 200X (don't remember the exact year) I was recording tapes from the radio because that's all I had. I was a child back then.
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.
+William Wegerson Yeah - Same here. I had an Akai VHS Stereo machine. Was awesome.
+Adrian Black It wasn't like it was from a `Nakamichi` tape deck, but it was good enough for my drunk poker friends. :-)
I want one lol. I have over 1250 tapes and that number is rapidly growing
Very amazing. How the owner feel proud on these days back in 1992. ❤️❤️
i keep telling yall the 90's were so cool.
im a old geezer and i've never seen this before .
wow.
Great Video.
I recommend staying for after-credits scene.
Wishing you a Happy New Year.
Dave.
+Geekanoids and to you too Dave - we're both part of the same little UK-centric tech corner on youtube.
It is a real eye opener, thank you very much! Never knew such an animal existed!
Back in 1992, when I wanted to create a long playlist, I used a VCR. With an E240 cassette, and a Hi-Fi VHS machine using long play (I had Akai players at the time; in fact this may have been around the time I had an Akai VS-A650 which was a VCR with built-in Dolby Surround and 12 Watt amplifiers for the two surround channels: mind-blowing stuff back then), you could get eight hours of near CD-quality audio (~90dB dynamic range, and certainly much better quality than compact cassette). No way to jump between tracks, and a pain to record yourself, but no need to buy any extra hardware!
+adbarrnz
Yes did that in the day some VCR's could let you could use a index search. and this was in 1987!
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:)
Ahhh the memorys...Sudenlly felt realy old lol. Thanks!
Really loving your back catalogue. Immensely grateful for all your hard work!
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing! Greetings from South Africa!
Many lids watching this won't even know what a cassette is!
Damn, I wanted to see that TV remote review recorded with a potato in the dark, I would've subscribed.
Another fascinating and well produced documentary video. Enjoyed it very much! Thanks Techmoan
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.
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!
I use to do that and make my own videos as well with a little help with my Realistic radio shack mixer.
Wow I had no idea there were cassette changers. This is pretty cool.
been a sony fan for years, and i never seen this machine anywhere.
Its awsome!
I still have my Pioneer CT-M66R. Still cool after all these years!
I love the puppet sequence at the end.
Never ever saw one of these. My solution in 1992 was a 101 CD changer. That also used a carousel arrangement.
That would have been the Onkyo DX-C101. Quite a good player in its day.
That is an amazing cassette changer, it looks really good quality. If only they made things like that these days.
I've never seen one that changes cassettes like that, it's beautiful! Such a culture shock to see things like this. How fast everything has changed with consumer electronics and computers.
I'm not a big playlist maker but I do sometimes fire up a playlist on CZcams of chilled out tunes and having Amazon Prime, I've got access to their playlists where you just choose a mood like "Music to study to" and let that play while I get on with things.
I think back in the 90's I had a much stronger connection to music. I spent hours making tapes, copying friends music tape to tape (oooh the piracy!) and trying to get music from the radio without the DJ speaking. And then of course we all moved to DJ like stuff mixing music but I never really took to that despite a lot of my friends getting decks and donning their little beany hats and headphones.
Now that is one cool device and i would love to own one just for owning one im a sucker for vintage teck
after your videos, i always go to EBAY to see how much the reviewed items are going for...
So do I! ahaha
just chiming in: this is one of my most favorite channels. Thank you for such interesting, informative and just plain fun videos.
Speaking of Sony changers, I'd love to see a review on their CDP-CX151 unit that acted as a 100-CD jukebox. A friend of mine had one in the very early 90's and I remember thinking it was pretty cool. They later did 200, 300 and 400 CD versions.
hahah the outro is the best :D love it
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?
+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).
Damn, my parents had something very similar to this when I was younger... Brings back awesome memories. Thank you.
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. 😊
Beautiful machine
I don't recall that machine either, must have been rare
such a beautiful machine, love this aluminium panel.
Dear Mat, it absolutely true that back in 1992 was a very hard time to have a personal playlist on CD. I can still remember when I finally was able (even if I was not more than a child), with the help of two additional friends, to buy a Kodak PCD-225 CD-Writer, with an Adaptec SCSI card and Easy-CD Software for Windows 3.1 (by Incat System, the original company from Italy - before being bought in 1994 by Adaptec). It was the 1993. Blank CD costed 26€ each (50.000 Italian lire).. and a coaster due to a glitch on the very slow hard-drive of the time or the operating system was a.. disaster! Thank you very much for your channel, it's one of my preferred. Even having a decent sound board with 16 bit recording and be able to do some remix of pre-mixed recordings made live with vinyl DJ setup was not so easy. GREAT TIMES! Best wishes and have a great new 2019 year!
God that bit at the end with the puppets killed me.
That ending was pretty funny ahahaha!
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!
I remember I used to always record my CD's to tape back then. CD's weren't cheap and they easily scratched. Especially in the car if you didn't have a CD changer (which was also expensive to put in a car). So I would just record the CD to the cassette and use the cassettes. Also, people didn't break into your cars for cassette tapes, but they definitely would for CD's back then.
Makes me feel very old.
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 !!!)
Still looks dope, modern and classy today! awesome design!
I keep thinking you've reviewed every audio/video format, every player - and then you come up with another one i've never heard of. Bravo!