What a 10hr music playlist looked like in 1992

[@LGR]

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

[@adwaitagnome]

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

[@ValugaTheLord]

+Devin Hepburn on a tape.

[@WestleyWolf]

+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]

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

[@adwaitagnome]

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

[@wal]

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]

Did you ever find one?

[@superotterboy1737]

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.

[@CanisArctus]

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]

+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]

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

[@christmascarl2000]

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

[@mikeswatches2480]

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 . . .

[@rjolly87]

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]

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!

[@Jack2Japan]

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

[@PrinceLX]

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

[@pcorf]

0:45 TDK SA, a type II, was probably the most compatible cassette tapes as it required little or no biasing, worked well in nearly all decks, had a decent frequency range. It was the industry standard of good quality cassette tapes back then. Of course there were better cassettes such as metal but they were expensive. Most people purchased lower quality Type I cassettes though. I used mainly C60 and C90, but the occasional C46 and C120 as well. Yes TDK did make a D180, it was not that great compared to a D90.

[@vladimircrumbo2962]

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

[@devjock]

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 ;)

[@Douthwaite]

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.

[@wrathofbod]

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]

+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.

[@bananakin94]

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

[@BuccaneerBruce]

I noticed that Step In The Arena

[@esnebta]

Masta Ace - Take A Look Around!

[@thepurpleendereye]

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

[@Zimmy_1981]

Did u fix it?

[@390rambler]

I have a Mitsubishi five cassette changer with a linear turntable and digital AM FM stereo radio. It still works perfect. It sounds real good!

[@4BetaMale2]

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

[@copperhamster]

Back in the late 80s I worked at a Roller rink and for weekdays when they didn't have a DJ, they had this magazine fed cassette player. I don't remember the brand. Could hold something like a dozen tapes in a caddy, they would drop in, be put in place, play then auto reverse, the pop the tape out the other side, literally into a bucket. You could just keep dropping tapes in the top of the caddy. All it did was play, pause, stop, reverse, eject/load. There wasn't even a fast forward/rewind.

[@MaunoKoivistoOfficial]

You have great taste in music.

[@defamatt]

Especially for the 2min 57s songs

[@weeraanmelden]

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

[@HNedel]

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.

[@aljr357]

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 .

[@breadwarandcircus]

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]

Surely you mean get your jacket?

[@stevegreen8262]

@@ComicGladiator bah dum, chssss.

[@JacGoudsmit]

I had no idea these existed until now. I had a Philips FC567 as part of my stereo system in the late 80s and early 90s, a double cassette deck which could not only record on both decks (pretty rare in itself) but could also play songs from a cassette in a different order, or dub songs from one cassette to the other in a user-programmed order. So I could do a lot of things that this beauty does, except I could only do it with two cassettes instead of five and it would have taken a lot of time to prepare "party mix" cassettes, even though it could dub at double speed. Thanks for the "teardown" by the way, interesting to see how they just move the entire mechanism to mount the cassette on the playback/recording deck.

[@PascalGienger]

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]

+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]

+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]

+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]

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.

[@sci3ntologist]

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.

[@WillieMcphee]

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 :)

[@bobwoolcock]

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!

[@williamng8255]

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

[@Blustride]

Sony really liked their media changers. They made loads of 5-CD changers, there's at *least* one 5-_SACD_ changer, there was a 5-DVD changer, and then there are the massive 3- and 400- disc changers. I think they even made a 300 or 400 disc Blu-ray changer.

[@geekanoids]

Wishing you a Happy New Year. Dave.

[@Techmoan]

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

[@cdamian]

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.

[@terryboardman4667]

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

[@michaelb9664]

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

[@duck2soup]

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.

[@marymoonchild2801]

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.

[@jeenkzk5919]

A little trick we did to record at least 8 hours of hi fi music was by recording audio on to a HiFi stereo VCR. We just hooked up audio only from a CD player or record player with surprisingly good audio quality! Now granted this was 1996 when HiFi VCR prices went down dramatically!

[@godfatherNYC]

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

[@nextsegment78]

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

[@jetset2070]

Love the old skool hip hop collection. :)

[@ogami1972]

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

[@FSXNOOB]

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]

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

[@harshnemesis]

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]

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

[@harshnemesis]

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.

[@TheRealNewBlackMusic]

i keep telling yall the 90's were so cool. im a old geezer and i've never seen this before . wow. Great Video.

[@Perplexer1]

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

[@clifffton]

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

[@gizmostudios]

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]

Bert Hermans if only man :/

[@Crlarl]

Bert Hermans Me too...

[@ForrestBobHD]

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

[@DanOConnorTech]

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!

[@StuartTaylorEsquire]

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]

+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).

[@TheHitmanAgent]

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!

[@jolmeaki]

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

[@TheRobertSt]

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

[@super3nicolas]

the last part 😂😂😂😂

[@m2esectr]

My 1993 Technics electronic dual auto-reverse deck can play 16 tapes back-to-back without interruption, but to do that, you have to manually change one tape while the other is playing, once during each tape starting with the second. I had heard about the Pioneer 6-tape magazine changer, but this one is quite interesting too

[@Whitbypoppers]

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

[@WigWagWorkshop]

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.

[@Couch.Island]

The potato was the best part. Clever that.

[@martinborus9531]

This is the perfect machine to convert a large amount of cassette tapes to digital. You can load it and then let it run for nearly 8 hours. It even stops after the last cassette. Just perfect. Worth buying just for that, if you kept a large cassette collection.

[@wokeisnonsense]

I love the puppet sequence at the end.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

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

[@ToothyFilms]

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]

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

[@ToothyFilms]

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

[@bobbobson4069]

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

[@mikewolf78]

I recommend staying for after-credits scene.

[@dominicfong6341]

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

[@Norlink]

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

[@jovegairy8409]

Yo!! I just wanted to tell you that you are a real G, you're playin, hip hop cassette showing on TDK 90 minute, and Juice Soundtrack on cassette. That Made my day!. Geez, Ur da man! I can tell that you're into Hip Hop from the 80s 90s Era! That's pretty cool and dope! Thanks for makin it look good on youtube!

[@coolbreez773]

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

[@chukidee6634]

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. 😊

[@yorgle]

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]

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

[@paololosoni5465]

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!

[@outlawcountryman]

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

[@BuccaneerBruce]

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.

[@kd1s]

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

[@ayemchunt1714]

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

[@Biriadan]

well, there was vhs hifi as well, and you could get 8 hours on a single tape with that, still with slightly better than cassette audio quality due to helical scan. also no gap in between tapes since there's only one. but this deck is still very good looking and the changing mechanism is very impressive.

[@techninefan90]

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

[@IamMunkk]

Those playlists are subtle but golden. Well played.

[@zetecfiesta]

Beautiful machine

[@WAQWBrentwood]

I never got on to CD as a format, To me it offered nothing I didn't have with LP. Cassette, OTOH was awesome, allowing portability, decent quality, ànd recordability. Long live Compact Casettee!

[@SPAZZOID100]

CD is FAR more reliable than cassettes. Sounds a whole lot better too.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

+James Reeno Don't know about reliable, I have cassettes from 1975 that still play. (and open reel from the 1950s) and maybe CD "sounds better" than cassette...perhaps...but WAV,OGG surpassed it, I was speaking to convenience of Cassette vs CD. As far as "reliability" goes, 78RPM records beat all. I have 78s that play perfectly. (oldest from 1907)

[@WestleyWolf]

+WAQWBrentwood I didn't get CDs until 1996. its a convenient preference. there is Minidisc that worked like tapes but sounded like a superior version of CDs.

[@fulanitoflyer]

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

[@defamatt]

So do I! ahaha

[@Andrew_G4CH]

Considering I was born in the early 80s, I had never seen a cassette changer.. Very nice and well done!

[@Techmoan]

+Andrew Cousins I was born in the 1970s and had never seen one either. This was imported from the US. I think the Pioneer CT-M6R and CT-M5R were a bit more common, but I've never seen one of those in person.

[@Andrew_G4CH]

That makes two of us then. Definitely a great find, though. Seems like the original owners took great care of it.

[@amcluesent]

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

[@warriordrum]

Again, I appreciate the mature and professional production standards. And yes I always want a peek inside. Your success comes from the thoroughness and extra effort....like describing the arcane functions of these older machines.

[@BigMack2020]

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

[@ramenadventure]

I had this! I was a freshman in high school, making a hundred bucks a month at my part time job, and spent most of it on floor sample components from my local Good Guys store. I remember the goofy feature of connecting it with a 5 CD changer and dubbing from the CDs to cassettes.

[@PianoVideosJustForU]

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

[@Ponimaju]

We had a 200 CD changer when I was a kid, came with a couple of plastic booklets for you to put the liner notes into, and you'd look at those books and the number stickers on them to figure out what CD was in what position. It did a cool spinning thing like this cassette player. About two moves ago I decided to get rid of it - I often play CDs in my vehicle so I don't want to have a big chunk of them tucked away in the machine, it would take forever to decide what to put in and to put all the liner notes in the books, and it simply took quite a while to change discs (it wouldn't be bad if you put in on shuffle by disc, so that it played a disc and then randomly (or in order) played another disc after the first one ended, but if you had it on shuffle by song, it would take quite a while to get to the next song. Nowadays with MP3s on the computer, and the computer plugged into my home theater, I just rip all my CDs and have them instantly accessible, and shuffling through my entire library is instantaneous, rather than spinning and then cueing up the next disc in 15-20 seconds (don't remember exactly how long it took, but it's unbearable in this day and age). Still, love the concept of things like this and they were amazing at the time (even the more common 5 disc changers that you could essentially cue up music say once or twice in a party).

[@peerfunk]

hahah the outro is the best :D love it

[@user-rd6vf7xk1x]

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

[@MurcuryEntertainment]

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

[@MrJueKa]

OMG, I`m 58, but I`ve never seen this awesome baby before - thanks for sharing

[@destynova4512]

Damn, never seen one of those and I lived on tape.

[@darendee5682]

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

[@maxwillson]

That ending was pretty funny ahahaha!

[@rwj777]

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

[@jean-pierrem34]

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

[@jean-pierrem34]

Mine too...

[@ian_b]

Makes me feel very old.

[@lactobacillusprime]

This machine would have been the bomb for my pad back in the day. TDK SA-90s in my Pioneer tapedeck taping all the CDs I could lend from the local library was the way to roll. This cassette changer would have been awesome. Still is actually :)

[@michaelb9664]

By the time the 10 hour play list is finished it'll be time to get the head cleaner and demagnetiser out again. Anyone remember those?

[@ClayMann]

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 KZbin 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.

[@Fam2014Ch]

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 !!!)

[@kelli217]

It _could_ have been done with only two tapes. There was a GoVideo VHS machine with two decks. It was built for duplicating tapes; it may or may not have had a video sync amplifier that might just so happen to defeat Macrovision copy protection when copying one to the other... But I digress. It also had a mode to play the tapes in both decks in succession, and even to repeat the cycle, rewinding one while the other was playing. Anyway, two T-120 tapes at EP speed, with audio recorded in stereo Hi-Fi would have had better sound than most consumer analog media, and would have had a total running length of 12 hours. Still specialized equipment, though...