The Philips Bumbox that’s ashamed of the cassette

If you want a new stereo cassette ‘boombox’ in 2020 there are very few options. If it was left up to ‘Philips’ you wouldn’t even know this one existed.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Fake Gran wants a boombox
01:51 Where’s the cassette?
04:24 Here it is
07:48 Tape
10:30 DAB Radio
13:45 Specs
15:05 CD
15:49 Bluetooth
16:20 MP3
18:05 Wow & Flutter
20:10 Remote Control
21:08 Dynamic Bass Boost
21:35 Summary
22:27 Outro
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******FREQUENCY RESPONSE***** - It’s not about the tape - it’s about the player....
The reason there is no bass for the tapes is due to the frequency response of the cassette deck - see 13min 38secs Cassette tape reproduction is stated in the specs as having a frequency response of 125-8000Hz - this is far narrower than the other components.
For a reference to compare this against a familiar tape deck - the first Sony Walkman from 1979 - the TPS-L2 - that had a quoted frequency response of 40-12000Hz.
So that means the 1979 Sony Walkman could play back low frequency sounds that fell between 40hz to 125hz - that this device ignores.
That’s why the bass feels as though it’s missing - because it is actually missing.
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FAQ
Q) Isn’t the play key pointing the wrong way?
A) The play key indicates the direction the tape moves. In this machine as the cassette is inserted with the tape at the top - the tape will move from the right reel to the left as it plays - so the arrow points left. Same goes for the Rew & FF keys - they both point the way the tape travels if pressed.
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[@Techmoan]

*******FREQUENCY RESPONSE****** It’s not about the tapes - it’s about the player... The reason there is no bass for the tapes is due to the frequency response of the cassette deck - see the specs at 13:38 Cassette tape reproduction for this bumbox is stated as having a frequency response of 125-8000Hz - this is far narrower than the other components, but also narrower than any _decent_ tape deck. For a reference to compare this against, the first Sony Walkman from 1979 - the TPS-L2 - that had a quoted frequency response of 40-12000Hz. So this means the 1979 Sony Walkman could reproduce low frequency sounds that fell between 40hz to 125hz - that this ‘Philips’ device ignores. That’s why the bass feels as though it’s missing - because it is actually missing. *FAQ* Q) Isn’t the play key pointing the wrong way? A) The play key indicates the direction the tape moves. In this machine as the cassette is inserted with the tape at the top - the tape will move from the right reel to the left as it plays - so the arrow points to the left. Same goes for the Rew & FF keys - they both point the way the tape will travel if pressed.

[@Sam42069]

Do you think any companies will start making decent mechanisms again?

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

@@Sam42069 Unlikely.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

They want all bass players to sound like Chris Squire, methinks.

[@mfbfreak]

@@Sam42069 Maybe some day a small Chinese niche factory will pop up again. But i don't think that chance is high. Hifi enthousiasts have no interest in new cassette decks unless they're really good. But to make a really good new deck, you gotta invest tons of money in R&D which will make the deck very expensive. Much more expensive than even upper class 2nd hand cassette decks.

[@ukkev7056]

@@Sam42069 The Teac W1200 is the only high quality tape player available. And it's expensive.

[@Frankie_Fish]

"So i've got my stereo test tape here, which is just a couple arguing over directions in a car" RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left RIGHT left . Lost it at that moment. Absolutely briljant.

[@peterkambasis]

Still laughing over that line! Lol.

[@mnky75]

I thought they were arguing over Political leanings....

[@bayareanewman1566]

Same!! Hahaha

[@JemaKnight]

Even when I knew what was coming, that delivery still absolutely killed me

[@aconemusic]

Haha this also got me . Comedy gold!

[@brennyn]

"Bumbox" is now forever part of my vocabulary for subpar subboomboxes.

[@WorldWideHipHopVideos]

RAPMUSIC3OOO

[@forzaguy1252]

I like the term boomblob for the more rounded style of these

[@ShazeemKhan]

We say radio here in T&T😊

[@nova3752]

Its also what we call your raggedy mother. The bumbox

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

“Unsupported file formats are skipped. For example, Word documents”. Well damn. I wanted to listen to my word document and now I can’t.

[@killersberg1]

If it didn't it would probably sound like a c64 cassette.

[@godfreypoon5148]

I wanted to listen to my pornographic JPEGs.

[@user-yg4kj2mf1p]

When AI reaches a point it can narrate pictures and videos I am gonna hack a miniPC into a boombox for that purpose.

[@godfreypoon5148]

@Gernot Schrader Spoiler: It sounds like refried ass.

[@RWBHere]

Yep; no audio book playback on this one...

[@cedarstuff]

Cassette, the best a gran can get.

[@aterack833]

cedarstuff unexpectedly good comment

[@leisergeist]

TheSandwichSlayer oh man, that sounds absolutely vile... amazing, the 50s and 60s never disappoint. It's like people thought "how absolutely scuffed can we make this and still have people use/eat/believe it"

[@rucker69]

I heard that in DrDisrespect's singing voice lol

[@thedailyshaver1171]

I was born in the 90's

[@peter-jamesmmbago8721]

So Lit

[@mg1342mg]

"No expense spent" covers so much manufacturing in this age. I had a rather anemic boombox in my day, but it surely beats the Bumbox.

[@jblyon2]

I had a Sony as a kid with enough bass response to make the CD skip at high volume. It was built like a tank, but was far from a high-end unit at the time.

[@UHF43]

My old Sanyo M9990-K is far from perfect but it still has that bass punch that this poor little thing is missing.

[@westelaudio943]

@Neptune X12 Most people say that, but buy that sort of stuff anyways.

[@Darxide23]

That's because Chinese manufacturing now exists.

[@jasejj]

I am willing to bet that if a major manufacturer was to put one if their 1990 portable stereos back into production, with the same build quality and charge £300 for it (the same price allowing for inflation), precisely 14 people would buy one. The buying public don't want quality any more (not for commodity stuff anyway). If they did the Japanese companies (and Philips) would still be in business churning them out, instead of selling up to Turkish and Chinese companies.

[@izzieb]

I choose to believe she is a real gran! She's out there somewhere...

[@lilrask9464]

LOL! I read this comment first before I watched the video and I was like " Gran, WTF? " LMFAO!

[@veemacks7255]

She's totally OGG ... original gangsta gran.

[@DriveCancelDC]

People who believe in her are no better than flat earthers.

[@seanabsher5577]

She's probably the same grandma who did drums for disturbed music

[@jdwilliams518]

There a yt channel with a couple of grannies reviewing metal music.. they really like Slayer...

[@Thermalions]

It's okay, Granny's hearing isn't so good these days. The years spent in the mosh pit at live rock and heavy metal concerts saw to that.

[@SirNarax]

Although I think 'Philips' here made a little bit of a tactical error here. Catering to an audience that only exists in a KZbin intro seems like a small market.

[@keithgray5525]

Actually, last Christmas I volunteered to buy gifts for nursing home patients...each volunteer was assigned one resident and given a wish list...my list had one item = boombox! which I bought from amazon. (Sony model) I just hope they liked it ..... so yeah, older people DO like boomboxes.

[@ChrisD4335]

well yeah boomboxes where like an 80s thing people who were in their 20s in the 80s are in their 60s now 60+ is granny age

[@aterack833]

Keith Gray was there an exclamation mark too? I would have put a “this was the best I could find, sorry it’s not like they used to be” or similar post it note with it

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, the old people now are those who had the OG Walkman back then.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Yeah, I see them everywhere in schools, hospitals, and nursing/retirement homes.

[@brianhill4153]

@@HappyBeezerStudios man that makes me feel old. I'm just 40, and I had a Walkman and a boombox...

[@colormetwisted]

Yet another "Put on a shelf in the garage for when Dad is working on something" boombox.

[@paulrippcord506]

Not for $150 dollars. Garage stereos have to be cheaper than that. That way you don’t care if it gets knocked off the shelf.

[@deusexaethera]

But my dad already has a boombox in his garage! And it's actually from the 80s!

[@mal2ksc]

@@deusexaethera And it almost certainly sounds better than this one.

[@HambertHM]

My best unit is in that glorious position :)

[@lelluc]

There is another version being sold without the cassette tape player, they probably re-used the box and manuals...

[@simonsaysrewind]

Yes I seen that. I bought the cassette version earlier in year on eBay (second hand but never been used) as my original grey version from early 2000 had broke. I paid 70 quid and that's how much I think it's really worth. It's cassette player is awful but I think sound is better than Sony ones but that ain't saying much as all modern versions are now crap in reality. Luckily I play my best cassettes on my technics separates but I missed my grey Philips so bought this for nostalgic reasons 😂

[@Strawbsmedia]

That’s what I thought haha

[@6581punk]

Maybe the tape player is still there, but you have to cut the case to reveal the buttons and deck (like the secret headphone jack on iPhones) :D

[@simonmikkelsen]

It looks like it has eyes, nose and the tape deck is the mouth that opens.

[@Shaun.Stephens]

@@simonmikkelsen I thought of a blowfly when I saw it.

[@RodBeauvex]

I will never actually be able to imagine Matt listening to those Rap tapes. There is just something in my mind that refuses to process this concept.

[@fettywapsmissingeye]

Great music

[@straightpipediesel]

Anybody who has attended a Tupac concert is now at least 43.

[@gmansplit]

@@straightpipediesel What? Tupac's last concert was in July 1996, and thus the youngest person who could have attended a concert of his (as a young baby) is ~27-28, not 43.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@gmansplit They don't let babies into rap concerts. 27+16=43.

[@kaitlyn__L]

"I think he's called technoman or something" brilliant!

[@johnnymnemonic69]

Lol I commented like a year ago I thought it was technoman for like the first week I subscribed 😆 glad I wasn't the only one.

[@VeyronBD]

@@johnnymnemonic69 I still forget constantly that its "techmoan" not "technomoan"

[@asmolbean9300]

"remember again, I don't actually exist." Is my new catchphrase

[@namewarvergeben]

@Wallace Shame on people for being born after us!

[@mojoblues66]

Isn't it sad that this useless comment currently has the most thumbs up of all comments?

[@asmolbean9300]

@@mojoblues66 Shame

[@NotATube]

She's just a stereotype She drinks her age in pints She has girls every night She doesn't really exist

[@dolby409]

The “couple arguing over directions in a car” bit got me laughing way harder than it should’ve

[@arthurvanrooijen7534]

that joke threw me of for a second...

[@joshuasprucie8933]

This was such a great joke. It really does sound like them arguing over and over haha

[@Sashko_Dee]

Statistically speaking there should be oodles of grannies running around listening to Wu Tang in 2020.

[@OzRetrocomp]

It could be worse... Gran could be listening to 2 Live Crew. The last thing anyone wants is their Gran to start singing along to "Me So Horny".

[@OzRetrocomp]

@@thesandwichslayer9948 NWA = Nannas With Alzheimer's?

[@billyanderson321]

These 2 comments above me are gold lol

[@SheepWaveMeByeBye]

Old people aren't what they used to be.

[@RWBHere]

In 2020, gran could very likely be as young as 32. That's scary to anyone who is twice that age and has been a grandparent for less than 10 years. Great, great gran could be 64. I foresee a family having 8 generations alive simultaneously before too much longer.

[@MattKeenanMusic]

£135 seems like a bit of a ripoff for the design and sound quality

[@CommodoreFan64]

Agreed, and more so when SONY is selling their CFD-S70BLK model here in the US for about $57 USD on Walmart's website.

Agreed also... this looks and sounds like like something you'd pick up in Aldi for £30... at that price I'd be happy but any more and no chance.

[@233kosta]

I bought 4 Sony components and a set of good speakers for £100 off gumtree which sound MUCH better than any equivalent audio gear you'd buy new in that price range. Pretty much the only dodgy component was the turntable - built to be cheap, essentially their equivalent of the LP60, though it sounded OK

[@robfenwitch7403]

Technoman, Technoman, Technoman and his imaginary gran...

[@1994CivicGLi]

E

[@NalinKhurb]

Reminds me of Postman Pat

[@andreyv116]

@@1994CivicGLi E

[@sdewey4152]

His imaginary grans a legend, listening to 35 Chambers.

[@f1reb4ll77]

Just don't say this in front of a mirror

[@youdontknowme5969]

that boombox looks like a black angry mantis head when its cassette door open

[@espurious]

Speak with a low voice. It'll never be able to track you.

[@AdamSWL]

Whoever decides recessed rotary controls like that volume knob are a good idea should have their fingers broken.

[@subtledemisefox]

Their fingers are already broken. That's how it got designed that way.

[@KarlBunker]

"A couple arguing about driving directions." LOL

[@EggBastion]

@@HazewinDog - I almost didn't get it at all *_`8 (_*

[@TheTapeDiscMan]

*angry GPS noises*

[@teacfan1080]

Or it could be two opposing brands of GPS contradicting each other.

[@alldreamsfalldown]

"We have a warehouse full of tape mechs, what do we do with them?" "Just sneak them into our other products any way you can."

[@doutorpacheco]

"Soon into food processors!"

[@DaveFlash]

Socrates Bandeira yeah.... but now I want one build-in me microwave.... or will that just demagnetize all me tapes when I put some grub or popcorn on?

[@andreasu.3546]

"Don't mention the tape!"

[@espurious]

"It just popped up. I got toast and a tape!"

[@hellishinc]

exFat is, much like most microsoft inventions, proprietary. It requires expensive licensing. Linux got support for it just last year and only because microsoft promised not to patent troll. No, I'm not joking.

[@macordior]

in this article thr licencing fees are estimated between $50K and $300K rshullic.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/the-costs-of-exfat-licensing/ that's a lot of bumboxes to be sold...

[@carriermodulation]

@@macordior Most embedded systems developers would license proprietary file systems drivers indirectly say through the purchase of a driver written by another company or via a FOSS license which did legally cross t's and dot i's. So these fees are not as big as you would think since that $50-$300k is being paid by that middleware company or would basically be waved if MS "contributed" to the FOSS project. I guess there are a few ways to look at this: 1) Now that the US is "first to file" on Patent claims, it is always good to patent everything. Idealists who dislike patents should too, or prepare to lose their rights under the current actual law. Some people may prefer companies which blanket provide royalty free licenses to their patents but there are many tactical reasons that may not be wise, and not everyone politically agrees with IP communism. 2) The FOSS community as well as MS itself and other MS partners who provide filesystems free of charge to customers to use will be safe due to their own dealings with MS. 3) However, middleware providers who decide to charge a license fee would be on the hook to pay MS their cut of the earnings they would get from customers. Some customers will always decide to go this route even when FOSS options are better. From MS's prospective, someone deciding to make money off their IP would pay for that right. 4) MS having a nominal licensing fee increases the odds that they could countersue patent trolls for actual money as MS could prove that they had received these licensing fees and that they were not arbitrary. So a guy with a patent claim which is basically "exFat but when used by a grumpy person" is now in big trouble trying to enforce his patent when he knows he could be made to pay MS a huge amount to do so.

[@minigolfkid]

yeah. Microsoft has been a butt to devs.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Hey, I'm already paying fees just buying the USB stick to begin with. They should make exFAT more openly available, it's actually a great format for mobile storage. More reliable than FAT16/FAT32, but leaves all the extras out (compared to stuff like NTFS) that is unnecessary for the use.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Isn't exfat the only format that can be used with both windows and ios? That might make sense for Techmoan as I believe he might have mixed systems.

[@onedeadsaint]

9:59 "just a couple arguing over directions in a car." RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! LMAO!

[@Moviesxp]

I clicked it and got a car ad

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

I live in belgium, a friend's uncle works as a guard in a prison, and he told me that this kind of boombox, but without the bluetooth and usb port, are still manufactured and sold for the inmates, and its made by philips, and it looks very similar to the one you are reviewing here, and it has a cassette deck as well, because this is the only way that inmates can record and share music between eachother, you can't buy cassettes anymore from the shops, but visitors are allowed to send or bring in sealed cassettes, (because i asked how inmates can buy cassettes since you can't find them practically no where but online)! I even have a walkman that belonged to an inmate once, the inmate went free and forgot his walkman and the uncle took it home and my friend gave it to me because i like old tech . . . Good video btw Techmoan, and i would buy such a boombox, just to see how good it sounds!

[@MichaelSchagen]

You might be interested in this video from techmoan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWSzl6akmdicnrs

Bumbox? They could've package a bottle of boose next to it then.

[@EggBastion]

buse?

[@veemacks7255]

@@EggBastion No, boose.

[@EggBastion]

@@veemacks7255 Buze?

[@mattgies]

@@EggBastion Bews?

[@EggBastion]

@@mattgies Oh! _Bews!_ Now I gets it

[@theharbingerofconflation]

I ain’t stickin my cassette in no bums box I’ll tell ya that!

[@afriend9428]

*Don’t stick your bum in!*

[@ShapeyFiend]

It's surprising someone hasn't kickstarted a decent cassette mechanism by now. You'd think there'd be a certain market for them again beyond novelty budget items. It wasn't that long ago every car still had one.

[@sethfriesen9123]

A couple arguing over directions in a car 😂 brilliant

Found them :D coub.com/view/2gvubr

[@Whigu]

@ Why there is not any simps here yet?

[@jensen2000gbgb]

Bottom of the tape freq response is stated as 125Hz, so if that's -10dB (sales nonsense instead of -3dB) no amount of bass boost is going to help with adding any "bum" to this box when playing cassettes. .

[@LRM12o8]

I always say if it can't go below 100Hz, it has no real bass, just glorified low mids ;D

[@takanara7]

@@LRM12o8 The iPods everyone went crazy over had a cutoff of 65hz. insane.

[@speedking92]

I think it said 8dB after it somewhere. so probably -8dB. yeah no kidding it has no bass.

[@claudiaalejandrapradinesfa7388]

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[@claudiaalejandrapradinesfa7388]

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[@UnholyTriforceDelenn]

It is sad that this type of cassette mechanism is all that is available anymore. I think I remember you mentioning in one of your other videos on compact cassette machines why there is only the one type of mechanism still available, but I forget what you said, Techmoan. I thought perhaps it might be a good idea if you did a video comparing the different mechanism types specifically showcased without the systems they go into, showing the various difference, and maybe going into a bit more detail as to how there is only the one mechanism still in production. Additionally, I hope that one day, someone does a kickstarter so they can make a proper mechanism again, and go into full production of them. I imagine LOADS of people would be interested in it, and it would be a good way of keeping the compact cassette alive and perhaps thrive again.

[@greggv8]

Make them with mounting points compatible with the crappy mechanisms so they can be a fairly easy upgrade.

[@jackh.3052]

U can buy them on ebay or other sites lol

[@szymon.szczesniak]

Recently, you are presenting radio tape recorders with a rather poor cassette mechanism. I, too, was recently looking for a decent tape recorder for my baby. After many purchases and returns, I finally came across Panasonic RX-M40DE bit.ly/2DOyqDv Device like from my youth, semi-automatic mechanism, full auto-stop (including rewinding). Unfortunately mono. I was so delighted that I started looking for something for myself in stereo. I found the RX-D55AEG bit.ly/30NJaeh and its little brother RX-D50AEG. The device works and looks as if it was designed 15 years ago and produced unchanged until today. It is probably the only equipment of this quality available in Europe bit.ly/3itvHhO Sorry for repeating the comment written earlier, but I wanted to read it - regards Szymon

[@mjouwbuis]

With a bit of luck (don't count on it though), MMD/TPV will try to have some old cost down Philips Austria mechanism manufactured by one of their suppliers. One can only dream...

[@erwintimmerman6466]

Don’t count on it. I’m the only one of everyone I know personally who still plays cassettes. And that’s only for nostalgia reasons. Every time I do I go “yep, that’s why I was so glad to ditch them”. It’s all coming back to me now, the wow, flutter, dirty heads, muffled sound, one channel cutting out for a few secs or longer, tapes that were destroyed in one channel over the complete length by playing it in a sub par mech, tape spaghetti... When I played them back then it was extremely annoying. When I play them now it is nostalgia. But I can’t see anyone younger in their right minds choose this over the convenience and undisturbed quality (well if the connection stays good lol) of digital. Vinyl yes, with the nice large sleeves and artwork. But cassette? There’s nothing whatsoever appealing to cassettes apart from their pretty nice and diverse shell design if you happen to collect the old ones.

[@Interference22]

"The Wu Tang Gran ain't nothing to f*** with."

[@sparkstron73]

Hope you took it back or returned online and used the reason for returning as "My fictional granny cant play her old school hip hop tapes back on this device with sufficient bass or without significant wow and flutter. Even though the product wasn't advertised as having a cassette player, it has one anyway and its not as described and is of a poor quality. Also granny cant record her cds or mp3s or dab broadcasts onto cassette and while not really necessary it would have been a nice feature. Again my granny is fictional but I think her points made are warranted and the device is not fit for purpose or not as described. If you need further evidence please refer to technomans video on the youtubes for proof." Yours sincerely fictional grannies grandson.

[@DaedalusYoung]

Also, advertised as 12W, but only capable of producing 2x4W.

[@DaedalusYoung]

@Ad Lockhorst he did though. DBB level 2 was too muddy, DBB off was too thin.

[@Volodimar]

My friend, because the platform judged that your dispute was not established, I hope you can cancel the dispute, and I can make a 3 $ refund for you. (You will not receive any compensation once the dispute is over)

[@countrabricksbuildcraze8916]

Man my Santo boom box has so much bass. Its like a car driveing by with a good system...my sanyo 80 s style boom box. Iz nuts an has built in amp to run record player an can hook up extra biger specker tape deck look brand new but weal pert that tourn tape is brocken fumming. I so luve to hear tape deck play so untill then my new school boom box aux cord out. To Dj mixer to old school silver sanyo amp..can u emadgen if I hookt up sanyo boom box to old school sanyo amp .an Dj mixer. .it would be dubble than just boom box specker s

[@Lumilicious]

Oh look it's Technoman with his Bumbox!

[@stoic_hero]

I laughed entirely too hard at "Bumbox"

[@danikim235]

That reminds me I still have a ~2003 Sony CFD-S100 at my grandma's place. It's missing all the new features like mp3, digital radio or bluetooth, but the build quality is much better and it can record to cassettes! When I was a teenager I used it to record music from CDs to cassettes for listening in the car. The only feature I really wished it had at the time was reading mp3s from CDs. My uncle had a discman that could do that and I was so jealous :)

[@stepheng8779]

Torn muscles under my ribs and Techmoan brings out his Bumbox. Cheers, hurt like hell 😂👍

[@CreatiVastARTS]

Interesting... Hardware that has an “Easter egg” feature

[@killernat]

even if it is a bit on the rotten side

[@michael931]

But the Easter egg is a goose egg...

[@Iisakkiik]

Maybe they are so shy about it because even they think it's crap.

[@pappagetti]

Why is "Easter Eggs" in quotes? Life is pretty much a video game at this point.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I thought I was the first that mentioned "easter egg". You beat me to it.

[@Neuron43]

The best sounding "BoomBox" I ever heard was made by Panasonic back in the mid to late 80's. It was the RXDT707. It seemed so far ahead of its time. The price was approximately $600 Can. I still have it but the cassette mechanism needs some work. If there is a better sounding portable music player out there it must be even more rare than this one.

[@gregthomson7889]

Correct in the 80s and 90s Panasonic was a standout.I bought the best Panasonic boom box in 1993 and nothing I have ever seen under 1k can touch it and the quality was so high .I wish I didn't give it away i'm sure it would still work.

[@mrglasses8953]

Panasonic RX-DT75

[@HangoverTelevision]

4:42 it looks scary.... "I wanna eat your cassettes! Bwaaaaaaah!"

[@squiggle2054]

early 70s- Stereo isnt that common in a tape deck 80s-90s- Stereo is common 2000s at the end of cassette- Stereo is still common Now: *has to check that a deck is stereo*

[@Nick_1911]

Its because these days manifactures ... well they " went a little funny in the head , you know , just a little funny " and you have to check your stuff . :D :D :D

[@squiggle2054]

@Emmanuel Hernandez it was around the late 90s to 2000s that people started to abandon the cassette, so that seems like really the end of cassette

[@alphatrion100]

@Emmanuel Hernandez You are obviously an exception. Dont you realize that?

[@squiggle2054]

@Emmanuel Hernandez i still do too but just because us 2 people still use them doesnt mean the format isnt considered dead

[@squiggle2054]

@Emmanuel Hernandez by 2000 most people abandoned cassettes and switched over to cd, so youre the minority here i mean

[@hikariyouk]

Hypothetical gran could easily be in her late 60s or early 70s, which would put her in her 20s or 30s when boomboxes were en vogue. Also, heh, bumbox.

[@Techmoan]

She’s hypothetically 93 on Thursday and likes cats (not the movie though).

[@hikariyouk]

@@Techmoan Cats are the best. (The latest movie or the 1998 stage production recording? I really want to see the new film just to see how bad it actually is.)

[@fen7662]

@@Techmoan Cats the stage musical is better anyway.

[@dxtxzbunchanumbers]

I'm imagining your Gran has an old Wu Tang "French Vanilla" t shirt she breaks out when she's feeling frisky

[@queazocotal]

Or even late 40s (born 1970, kid at 17, grandkid at 34, now 17 and buying boombox)

[@Ashkimbo]

Cor I come to this channel for a puppet show and he only ever talks about blinking technology!

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

"i dont exist" "ok fair enough"

[@CandGoods]

People will definitely have more luck finding illicit substances through their dealer than finding demagnetizing tapes through their dealer in this day and age.

I have to admit that at 42 I had no idea such a thing existed! I thought I was hot stuff because I had a 3.5" floppy drive cleaner 😂

[@souldefunk]

Lol

[@233kosta]

You can cheat on any two head recording deck - record mode will demag the head quite happily

[@saltech3444]

"Hhhey baybee, I got preemo demag tapes, fuck you up reeeeal good."

[@richbrock9876]

2 live crew 😳 Searches hard drive for two then 2 and finds As Nasty They Want To Be. Listens to a few tracks and chuckles at the thought of an imaginary gran listening along too. Realises he has been a grandad for 14 years 😳😳

[@d3spike]

Just for fun maybe play a cassette tape in a good quality player and transmitte over FM to the BUMBOX

[@Jamal_Tyrone]

I've always wondered who buys these things, buys a bunch of D Cell batteries, goes out into the countryside with a USB stick full of music and plays it?

[@mal2ksc]

It's not the countryside, but I've loaded up a much larger and better bumbox with batteries and used it while playing tennis. The courts have lights to play at night, but no power outlets.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Basically whenever people want to listen to music where no mains power is available. Ever been camping? Or been swimming in a lake? Maybe both together. Or having a party there.

[@gwishart]

Builders? Particularly those working outside or in buildings that don't have an electrical supply.

[@Jamal_Tyrone]

@@gwishart They seem to just get radios which are compatible with their favourite brand of power tool so they can share batteries rather boom boxes and certainly don't use USB sticks to play a run of MP3s.

[@Jamal_Tyrone]

@@willdatsun Exactly, some sort of Bluetooth speaker with a built in rechargeable Lithium battery then play or stream from their phone to it.

[@axeavier]

10:00 it's just 2 people arguing in the car and then you hear that is one of the funniest jokes in the video besides the intro

[@muhammadislam0000]

😂😂😂😂

[@rbdriftin]

My grandma absolutely loves Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit. She blasts it at full volume when driving to collect her pension from the post office.

[@basshead2003]

🤔 I would think that C.R.E.A.M. might be a better song to play. 😁

[@arttra9158]

Congratulations on the big 1million. Thank you for all the content.

[@mauricioecheverry1305]

Hey, Techmoan. Really loved your analysis on this product. It's very deep and complete

[@RebeccaMundschenk]

"I have a couple arguing about directions in the car" 😂😂😂😂

[@teamsalvation]

Lol the marketing team didnt know what it was, so they didn’t bother “marketing” it. 🤣

[@Patzi4Star]

The DBB feature, that many Philips systems have, even to this day, stands for "Dynamic Bass Boost". It is supposed to enhance the bass frequencies, especially at low volume settings. So you can experience a "fuller" sound despite low volume. I used to have a Philips Micro Hi-Fi system, that also comes with this feature. Although on my system the DBB could only be turned on and off, even though, it was a newer Hi-Fi system.

[@Caratcho]

I saw my country at 3:29 xD. Excellent videos! Greetings from Chile!

[@Dekkia_]

16:50 To be fair: ExFat has to be licensed from Microsoft. That would cost money.

[@hfiguiere]

Microsoft used that (exFAT) to (patent) troll the Android manufacturers, it's also a problem with SD Card > 32GB. So it would be understandable that a cheap electronic doesn't support it.

[@brecken19972]

@@hfiguiere i still dont get why Android manufactures dont put out a utility that alows ext4 file systems to work on windows. Its free, its a real journaling fs not tacked on like exfat and ntfs, and its superior in everyway.

[@hfiguiere]

@@brecken19972 the problem is the SDXC card standard requires exFAT support, because by default, Windows will format removable drives bigger than 32GB as exFAT. You can re-format SDXC cards in FAT32 but the device might not accept it.

[@nickwallette6201]

Microsoft released the exFAT patents - kind of. I just looked this up again, because I remember there being a stipulation on it. They released them to the Open Innovation Network, which is a community that tries to combat the patent arms race by allowing “its members” to use patents under its portfolio royalty-free, as long as the member agrees not to enforce its own patents against Linux. So what does that mean exactly? I’ve written my own FAT driver. Can I write my own exFAT driver? Is it legal to use outside of Linux? If so, can I enforce my own (imaginary) patents against proprietary software vendors as long as I allow Linux to use any of my IP for free? What a mess. If you want there to be a universal file system, just write a reference implementation, release the specs to the public under non-exclusive royalty-free terms, and knock it off with the provisos and limitations already! 😖

[@straightpipediesel]

@@nickwallette6201 The only place that affects are the cheapskates and purists who run desktop Linux. Everybody else (Android handset makers, Apple, camera and printer makers) forked out for the license.

[@glitchinawesome7907]

Hey TechMoan huge fan here from the USA your videos are fascinating!! Thank you for all your hard work!! I have actually been binge watching your videos all night and I came across this one lol I hope you get to read this. Looking forward to future videos!!

[@Goodywagon]

As always very enjoyable, and informative. I recently moved into a place that has a 1990s 19 inch Sony TV and decided to keep it for now because I decided I kind of liked it, and I grew up in the '90's with a 19 inch Mitsubishi, so I was having fond memories of fuzzy rabbit ear single and that era of my life. Then I decided, with how crazy the world has gone that I wouldn't mind just creating my own little '90's world in my room. So I went to the local Wal-Mart and checked out the appalling state of boomboxes and stereos in the age of the bluetooth speaker. I was however surprised to find for around 35 dollars (I believe) an Onn (I believe this is a Wal-Mart store brand for electronics in the U.S. anyway) CD, cassette, and radio boombox. I didn't want to pull the trigger on it without watching a video on new tape decks as I have noticed my local store selling new tapes, and that there are a few cheap walkman knockoffs back on the shelves. I had watched your video on the last remaining tape deck but had forgotten about it. I am so glad I watched this and that one again. I am pretty broke right now and would have been pretty disappointed I am sure. So thanks. Thankfully I own a beautiful 1990 Yamaha twin deck, but I was hoping for something more compact in this small space, and something more like what I had in my room as a kid. Hopefully with the increasing popularity in tapes now, someone will start making a decent mechanism.... I doubt it though as the record player that came back to flood the market when they got popular again are, as I am sure you know, utter garbage. And those are what most people that brought vinyl back are listening to it on unlike those of us that have been hip all along (I used to get made fun of by antique store owners as a kid trying to find a record player with my Dad, I'd like to talk to them now lol, I bet they wish they hadn't sold me my first two at like 10 or 15 bucks lol). Sorry for the rant but this brought back a lot of memories. I will keep working on my '90's room. Thanks for your videos, I have enjoyed for a long time now.

[@narcalusbrocarcalus]

Congrats on 1 Million!!!!

[@stuartmcconnachie]

10:38 really they could have got away with FULLSCAN (without the space) and then it would have fitted on the 8 character display.

[@gettingbetter1729]

The display actually fits nine characters. It shows "CONNECTED" in Bluetooth mode.

[@LeonardPutra]

Yeah, it can also shows "BLUETOOTH" without any issue, wonder why..

[@AtheistOrphan]

Stuart McConnachie - I suppose they’re being linguistically correct, full and scan being separate words.

[@lucasduque8289]

But it becomes just so much better if it either says "ULL SCAN" or "FULL SCA"

[@Mister_Brown]

@@gettingbetter1729 i suspect they coded it as "FULL SCAN " but even then it doesn't make sense

[@Fifury161]

10:03 - a couple arguing over directions in a car - that cracked me up!

[@kollectormairu6881]

I’m a huge fan I did not notice you got ONE MIL great job dude luv your vids!

[@Air4swan]

OMG, I’d love to see a video of the ticker flipping to 1M! Congrats! 👏🏼

[@rager1969]

The cassette door is dampened. I'm surprised they spent money on that.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I guess they had to justify the increased cost over one of the Sony units Mat featured a while back... "put a 20¢ spring in there and charge 10€ more!", maybe?

[@mrbyamile6973]

Probably just poorly fitted plastic components that are dragging against each other that conveniently act as door dampening :) Didn't Matt review one recently that darn near threw the tape out of itself when he pressed eject?

[@NotATube]

@@mrbyamile6973 My old £99 Matsui "hifi" had soft eject that- AFAICT- used the friction from cog-like mouldings to slow the eject mechanism down. To be fair, it worked well enough for something that price.

[@AlexTenThousand]

Oh please, do tell me it is actually sold in the UK as a "Bumbox" and it's not just an imported one.

[@Techmoan]

This is the multilingual box that is sold in the UK - I bought it from Argos.

[@joeclayton2875]

Just a totally bum machine I guess

[@AlexTenThousand]

@@Techmoan I feel like they should definitely hire someone with a better understanding of the languages of Europe at whoever made the packaging for Philips, then. I mean, "Putting a cassette in your Bumbox" sounds dirty.

[@codiwawi911]

I just bought myself a Philips AZ8490, specifically to test new cassettes and play my collection without having to use the headphones on my walkman. It’s lovely and I was very inspired by your videos and the “you can get a second hand classic player that’s far better than new ones” and for $20, I am insanely happy with this purchase. Took me 2 minutes to clean it and it runs amazingly!

[@codiwawi911]

Oh, it’s also insanely loud which is great, can fill the house and annoy the neighbours with my tunes!

[@DoubleMonoLR]

The early 90s was the peak for quality of common consumer audio gear in my opinion, 'twas expensive at the time though.

[@JoseLgamer05]

4:15 "it looks like it's had an injury" you got me there 🤣.

[@NathanJayMusic]

I knew the intro story was fake when the granny said "boombox" instead of "ghetto-blaster".

[@1FireyPhoenix]

Ghetto-blaster to me means a .40 hipoint xD

[@Pepperoni_Toni]

1FireyPhoenix wrong kind of ghetto blaster

[@NoshAbroad]

The "Bumbox" is the ultimate troll. Good show.

[@nicholaslittle2312]

The Bumbox bumed out!

[@laust3998]

Dab+ tho

[@uriituw]

I like how out of all the features, Techmoan goes to the trying out the cassette feature first!

[@Przemek2010]

Philips AZB600/12 is also a brand new DAB+/CD/cassette player available in Europe. Just a bit smaller than the one you presented, cheaper and using the same cassette mechanism. I have been using it for some time and so far no complaints :)

I've heard of this Technoman lad 😂

[@sonic2000gr]

Check the frequency response for the tape deck: 125 - 8000 Hz. This is even worse than most Sony ones (80 - 10000Hz). No surprise this sounds muffled and without bass.

[@rwalker9644]

I DONT KNOW HOW YOU SEEM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT I HAVEN’T EVEN ASKED YET. ALL VERY INTERESTING AND USEFUL - WELL DONE MR MOAN 😀

[@ff_crafter]

Congrats on 1 million subs

[@tjsh02]

"I think he's called 'Technoman'" that was honestly how I misread your channels name several times before seeing it's actually 'Techmoan' :D

[@archaicamusement3871]

Me too. In fact, I think about this Chanel as technoman 😂

[@Autunite]

I had to double check your channel name when you mentioned "this Technoman guy" since I thought I've read it wrong until now. Turns out I wasn't, *phew*

[@fumthings]

spoilers, the channel name was a typo all this time

[@ricowilko]

Love this channel. Another great John Shuttleworth moment: "That's a weird scroll in't it?"

[@05Forenza]

Haven't even started the video yet. I've had a stressful day, and I'm excited to relax with whatever this is lol

[@RCAvhstape]

4:29 when you opened the tape deck the machine looked like a face opening its mouth, with speakers for eyes and the big knob for a nose.

[@travelbuzz1]

Like it. Bearing in mind when you play the wrong notes in music they're called bum notes, I'd say Bumbox is very apt!

[@keithbrown7685]

actually when you play the wrong notes, it's called jazz

[@Dizz2K7]

Your music collection makes me smile. You knew Juicy... You had to, I can't imagine that specific line was selected at random. I really like the design, but not enough to shell out $130. The versions I found on Amazon and Walmart have red where the blue is on this one, but otherwise look identical. Nice video.

[@Nurpus]

The intro to the video is just 👌

[@swebigmac100]

Congrats to the 1m subs. You've earned it. Good work!!

[@OzRetrocomp]

OG = Original Granny?

[@josephfrye7342]

no OG = Original Version for short abbreviation if you cannot read these long letters in English.

[@johndavies4644]

J Frye original gangster lol..

[@souldefunk]

@@johndavies4644 thar's the one. 😉👍

[@johndavies4644]

@@souldefunk all that 2pac and biggie lmao

[@sdewey4152]

Wish my gran listened to the Wu that'd be sweet.

[@AnnaGardiner-y3c]

Thank you so much for review. I just bought one and was panicking that the tape player was forgotten.

[@igotyouripadress5932]

Congrats on the 1 million

[@Inadvisablescience]

Anyone remember when they were called "Ghetto Blasters"?

[@elsongs]

LOL, those that do used to sit theirs down on the ground next to a large piece of cardboard and busted some dope b-boy moves.

[@scotthawthorne3760]

@@elsongs lol. Yes me and cousin aged bout 11 at the time busting some moves ( or trying to! Lol ) on a filthy piece of cardboard with a v large silver ghetto blaster playing . . . . . .wait for it! . . . . .the break dance 2 film sound track , whilst wearing v nasty looking neon nylon adidas tracksuits. Lol. No wonder I got kneck and back trouble now at fourty odd years of age! Lol .

[@dragons_red]

@@elsongs that was me as a kid back in the 80s. I upgraded to a piece of linoleum later

[@kritikalazz2021]

Boombox was a american term from what I remember & ghettoblaster was what we called them on our side of the pond

[@elsongs]

@@kritikalazz2021 Both are American terms; Hip-Hop started in the USA (Bronx, NY).

[@DragonUltraMaster]

Oh wow. This looks so similar to the Philips AZ1005, a radio I still have since my childhood and still works excellent! Pretty much the main reason I clicked on the video, but also because it was Techmoan. I've seen good stuff here before

[@JohnDoe-wb9ht]

Recently bought this from Argos at £150. No problems at all..there is now mention of cassette deck. Big jump in price and watts at Argos..all under £100 are 2-3 watts..so I splashed out the extra for advertised 12 watts and the sound is pretty good..there are 5 music modes which is like a preset graphic equilizer (which isn't in the instructions)..each mode is fairly similar..I have mine on power, this has the best bass sound. Volume goes up to 30, 5 is okay for me indoors without causing any "turn that down", shouting. Volume comes on pre set so you'll need to turn it down to start. Top loading CD is awkward if unlike me you've got sausage fingers. Overall think this item must have improved since this clip. I'd recommend 4 out of 5. Not 5 because of the £150 price. Back in the 80s it was BASF and TDK that produced the best bass recording but try and find decent cassettes today is like finding a golden unicorn..pretty much all even new tapes are terrible..try charity shops and record over the top may be better.

[@vanessal7291]

Your music library always intrigues me.

[@extremegabel]

exFAT was proprietary untill August 2019

[@straightpipediesel]

I wouldn't call it proprietary, but rather a closed standard. Microsoft was willing to license and provide confidential documentation to anybody who paid, and standards like SDXC, required it. Incidentally, SD is a similar closed standard, you need to pay a licensing fee to obtain the full specification.

[@extremegabel]

@@straightpipediesel the key there being anybody who paid. I just stole the wording from Wikipedia after not coming up with a concise way to say that

[@DaveFlash]

Gabriel Behn this beast is from 2016 tho.

[@extremegabel]

@@DaveFlash but that is exactly my point at that time they would have had to license it which since it doesn't support SD cards that need this filesystem would mean extra expenses on producing the thing which doesn't make it a surprise that it can't read the USB drive formatted with exFAT

[@AmazingJeeves]

6:49 ... I'm just saying, the Fictitious Grans would be an amazing name for a prog rock band.

[@wilkes85]

I noticed that on boomboxes in the 2000s when cassettes were on their way out but you could still get tapes here and there, the boomboxes all tried to hide the cassette deck in some way lol.

[@MarkJT1000]

Had a Philips unit very similar to this many years ago with radio, CD and cassette deck and it played cassettes very well. It had DBB in them days too and sound output was pretty good with decent base. Funny how its all got so much poorer despite all the technological advances.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

But decreasing desire/knowledge/expectations/available mechanism of/for cassettes.

[@AlexTechYT]

Cassettemoan

[@save9624]

Cassetteman!

[@NuclearTopSpot]

Cassettoman

[@spugintrntl]

Technoman!

[@gaborszabo6406]

Bummoan

[@AleksandarGrozdanoski]

Tapeman? ...or how about Walkman?

[@robertcartier5088]

My mum was still listening to Classic Rock on FM when she was 84! So your introduction scenario is not that far off... ;-) (Indeed, she was the only gran in her building who could program a VCR for delayed recording... she was very popular after a blackout! Took me years to teach her how, but she finally got it!) ;-]

[@petunia4141]

love this!! :)

[@willd6215]

You must have the patience of a Saint

[@robertcartier5088]

@@willd6215 She wasn't slow or anything, it's just that I taught her over the phone... That takes a little longer. ;-)

[@diegorivera2711]

I'm amazed: when you showed the country representatives list, second one is Argentina, I used to work 3 blocks away from that address. It's a small world. Cheers!

[@devolutionary]

That light-hearted yet tongue-in-cheek hypothetical intro was top form. This mysterious gran seems like 1 in a million.