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The last cassette mechs & Aldi's 2019 Boombox (Patreon)

Published:

2019-07-12 06:01:00

Edited:

2019-07-12 16:02:50

Imported:

2021-02

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https://youtu.be/nezGOVOpHtc

I received quite a few emails over the last few days regarding that shambolic little bluetooth equipped personal cassette player on Kickstarter.

These brief spikes in interest spikes happen whenever a story-hungry tech blog promotes the latest cassette based embarrassment of a player.

Most people understand exactly what it is they're looking at whenever one of these stories pops in their feed and they don't pay it a second thought. Some send me a link just in case I missed it. Some, just a few, believe the hype.

I decided that it might be a good time to set the record straight on what it really means when anyone makes a new cassette deck nowadays. How they rely on a common parts bin, with the most important of those parts being a low-end hang-over from the budget boomboxes of the past.

A chance encounter in an Aldi supermarket at the weekend gave me an opportunity to make this video which hopefully helps explain why every modern cassette player is at best, a mere shadow of the past.

Incidentally - this video has a live voiceover, a technique I use only very occasionally for efficiency. It's never as good as one done later - but as a result of the time saved, I hope to have the next video ready a few days early.

UPDATE 12 July 2019 16:09 BST

As a result of your help and suggestions I've spent the day reworking a few sections of this video before it goes public at the weekend. The version above is now the updated one. YouTube’s 4K/UHD processing might take a while - but the HD version is now available.

Oh and here's an Extra Video - I shot when I unboxed the Neon Cassette Lamp thingy you see in the background in the intro https://youtu.be/BIijdyaqRr0

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Tanashin - the last cassette mechs & Aldi's 2019 Boombox

The Tanashin cassette deck mechanism is used in both the most expensive new cassette decks and junk like this Aldi boombox. It is a low end mechanism, a hangover from budget boomboxes of the past, but for better or worse its also the last mech standing and with a bit of care can be implemented far better than this. VWestlife's video about that Bluetooth Cassette Portable on Kickstarter https://youtu.be/WVylfRhIA7o If you want to see the Neon Cassette lamp thingy in more detail - here's a video just for the exclusive club known as "The Readers of the Video Description Text Box" https://youtu.be/BIijdyaqRr0 ---------------SUBSCRIBE------------------ http://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan?sub_confirmation=1 -------------Merchandise----------------- https://teespring.com/stores/techmoan-merch -------------SUPPORT--------------- This channel can be supported through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/techmoan *******Patrons usually have early access to videos******* ----------Outro Music----------- Over Time - Vibe Tracks https://youtu.be/VSSswVZSgJw ------Outro Sound Effect------ ThatSFXGuy - https://youtu.be/5M3-ZV5-QDM