In my experience they also tend to be of a better quality than comparable devices. I owned a one of their "walkmans" back in the day any since then many AKAI Pro devices, mainly samplers - and must admit I am a bit of a fan.
@@SierraLimaOscar I bought their last hardware rack sampler, and they promised they would be implementing direct from drive sample playback. It never happened.
Recently Akai has become notorious for their Rhythm Wolf drum synth which is apparently hated by many musicians. Oh well, no publicity is bad publicity, right? (Boeing shaking their head, "No" in the back of the room for some reason).
You have no idea...how many more Odd and weird Items there are. the amount you have seen so far, is just a small amount... we may be here for a while...
A "budget" offering from the mid-'80s shows more features, care, and thought than most anything made today for four times the cost, adjusted for inflation. The color and font used for the nomenclature are perfect. Really brings home the feel of the time. The Wipeout stuff was done by Designers' Republic BTW. Great video!!
Does anyone else miss this sort of Ingenuity and creativity that we just don't seem to get any more ? just a black box with as little as possible ? Nice video
Yes! Is there even any choice any more? Visiting the electronics department of any store, be it John Lewis, Dixons, etc. used to be so exciting with constant change. Sad to see during a recent visit to the B&O website that their offering is entirely Bluetooth or whatever 🥱.
@@KronoGarrett And the companies don't design and make this stuff themselves anymore. They probably just look at the catalogue of a generic Chinese manufacturer, order a few thousand of a model they like, and slap their logo on it.
That’s not the reason why there’s no ingenuity in hifi anymore. Nobody wants it anymore. There’s no money in the market. They literally can’t afford to be flashy and daring.
“It’s not a big enough box to bring any boom or blast any ghettos.” Gotta love Mat’s sense of humor. It’s part of his charm. Cool system. Love the rotating speakers. Hard to believe this thing is from 1984. Looks much newer.
When I first saw it I assumed it was from the late 80s, surprised by how early it turned out to be. Maybe it's the glossy red finish (would have gone nicely in my trendy red, white and grey childhood bedroom!) and that typeface, that still looks fresh today.
There was one of these in our kitchen when I was a teenager; it was the Sunday-evening end of chart show and afterwards tuner. Parent brought it home from a trip to HK in about 84/85 I was today years old when I found out that the speakers twist.
Akai was so elite back in the day. That red color and the soft edges scream Akai. I love that you used one of the reel to reel cassettes. Aki always used them in their ads.
What an interesting little device! And I’m impressed by the quality of its radio too. As a teenager of the 80s who only listened to cassette and radio with no money or room for a decent turntable system. I would have loved having something like this, for listening to music when at home.
We are at a solar activity peak at the moment, so Short Wave is pretty good at the moment. Akai made some really great kit back in the day - I still have an HXA-3DBX tape deck from around this time which still works :)
It doesn't matter what the thumbnail picture, we will click on anything you post. I've never seen a stereo like that before, but I would have liked to have one. Amazing what you find to show us. Thanks for the video.
The design of that stereo still looks nice today while looking like the 80s and having that japanese sci-fi mecha touch with the font used on the text legends on the buttons, sliders, and speaker body. Makes me think if a similar design with the center component housing a subwoofer instead is possible as a sort of all in one speaker system much like the Kanto Syd you shown last week.
Nice little machine - I want one now..... 😂 I remember having an Akai VHS machine - it was our first recorder; a top loader with on-screen graphics for play/rewind etc. Really flash at the time!
My parents had always thought little of their Akai portable radio from the 70's, with all its fiddlier bits, but I thought it genius, despite its modish design. The PJ-11 has taken that to an all time new level. Brilliant review!
For me, the first thing that comes to mind is not the Nostromo but the droids from Silent Running. Or maybe something else. But _something_ sure comes to mind. That power adapter is one of the best designs I've ever seen. The speaker arrangement is amazing, and yeah, I would have LOVED to have one of these beauties back in the day. Also, the hum from the AC power adapter is almost certainly due to a dead capacitor, since that's how you filter out the 60hz hum from the power line.
So cool, I've never seen so a stereo with so many speaker placement options. Very sci-fi looking. You always find the most interesting tech, great video as usual!
I had one of the smaller boxes like this that had shortwave bands on it. When I took it out to the country I could hear the larger shortwave stations of the day very clearly and easily. My favourites of the day, like WRNO or Superpower KUSW played the classic rock of the day. Others were equally great like Radio Australia. Had a great time with them.
I'm surprised the aux input is a 3.5mm jack. Everything else I've seen from this era uses RCA jacks. The 3.5 mm jack aux input jack didn't become common until the mid-2000s.
I was initially surprised too, but then in the late 1990s I had an all-in-one boombox where the aux input was phono jacks and at the time I thought that was weird. I guess it saved space in this device, and let's face it you weren't going to plug in a full-sized stereo component; this was really just intended for CD walkmans, which were never outfitted with full-size RCA jacks.
Love these vintage gems you share! This PJ-11 looks like an alien spacecraft with those rotating speakers! Who knew 80s design could be so futuristic and functional? Great video as always!
I had the PJ-33 back in the day. It was actually silver and red, not white and red. Great little stereo. The big handle could rotate down to prop it up at an angle.
Not only nowadays you can make adaptations to devices like this, but if you want, using a Bluetooth receiver in that aux-in can expand even the capabilities to modern standards. What I'm saying is that a beautiful device like this one can be totally a daily-main-one in use, if someone would like so.
Lovely little thing. Really love the design, deffo reminds me of Wipeout like you said. With the speakers down it reminds me of the robots in Silent Running.
In 1985 my conservative Grandmother surprised us all by buying a bright Red Philips Cubic Compo D8254. While not as quirky as this Akai, its cassette transport control design was off the scale with a grid of flat, front-facing buttons which I've not seen emulated since. Miss those days of exciting designs, thank you Mat!
We could only afford a mono AKAI unit in the 80s but its tape unit had exactly the same quirks. The two "thump" at the end of your recording caused by the simple recording circuit and the permanent magnet erease head bing back old memories. ☺
I had a favorite cassette back in the 80's with a few thumps in it from accidentally pushing record down a little bit when going to play the cassette! I got used to that thump being there as part of the song 😂
I had an 80's Alba Hifi system last week, with phono, radio, double cassette, which I was going to offer TechMoan to repair (and keep) but I could not find any way of contacting him on his site, so unfortunately, the Alba went into the skip...probably the best place for it 😅
I bought a pair of SX-R7 speakers, a camera bag and mains power brick and used them with my walkman 2 in the great outdoors ! happy days, later I got me a 'Sound burger' as well !
Great video, I seem to remember seeing one of these, in a Bank branch I used to work in many years ago, it did look cheap but it gave out respectable sound, and the speakers had been detached, no-one ever connected them up whilst I worked there, it just played the radio most of the time, and then a cassette of Christmas tunes during December. 👍🏻🙂
Happy Christmas "Mat". All the best wishes. Thanks for all the enjoyable, informative repairs (successful and not 😊) dive into audio and video devices, old and new, from the obscure (muse laser disc technology), dashcams, firmware updatable christmas trees to pinball machines. Hope you have a wonderful 2024 Christmas into 2025.
This thing is almost smaller than the cassette. The battery space is bigger and heavier than the rest of the machine. At 2:45 it's a beautiful moment where it looks like a viewport shading or material preview in a 3D program is replaced with a fully rendered image. The sunlight from outside and all the shadows are in contrast with the plain and sharp lighting.
I saw this 30 minutes after this came out and bought the only listing for this on eBay in Australia. Albeit in black… a steal at 100 bucks postage included, I rationalised I had been meaning to get a radio for emergency situations, and given the epic price and super close proximity to the video release that I get in at the ground level before the techmoan tax is applied. Not sure if the tape mech works, but it will give me a project to fix, which wouldn’t be the first time I’ve bought a bargain and fixed it up after watching a techmoan vid.. Certainly soon retro enthusiasts will be moaning only that Technoan increases prices of cool retro appliances :P Love your work mate.
Had something very similar as a kid, the PJ-15, was possibly the next year model iteration. Had it in the Red (seems only one result for this colour on image search), and was heartbroken when our house got robbed and was stolen. We got it replaced under insurance, but unfortunately there was only the boring black model available. Still wish I'd held onto that one though. Can't remember if the speakers were detachable like these ones either? The EQ and play buttons were moved to the front of the device, and the tuner etc. were up top. The speakers were also a bit more stylised, but at the same time it does unfortunately make it look a little cheaper than the PJ-11 losing the red speaker surrounds. There was a big "3 Dimensional Free Angle Speaker" marketing sticker on the front of the tape deck cover which I never removed too, ~7 year old me could never get my head around those words.
What a quirky little device! Would have loved to have seen how well it would do connected to the wow and flutter meter, but not sure it would have done so well!
Great to see Akai featured, they're a favourite brand of mine certainly. Made some great consumer gear, no snobbery and mostly good quality. It's a real shame they went the way they did and disappeared.
I just started watching and as someone that owned a ghetto blaster back in the '80s I think my favorite feature and one that I would have wish would have wished to have seen on more stereos like this is the batteries in the speakers. Cuz having the audio components in the middle and then batteries on each end would make the whole thing kind of balance. Maybe a little bit easier to carry
The styling on this is incredible. Love it! Peak 1984
good year, wud hv been cool to see in WW84 lol
Look at the texture on the switches!
Very reminiscent of Soundblaster from Transformers, I love it
@@mistermatix8241 You mean Blaster. The Sound Blaster is a line of PC sound cards made by Creative Labs starting in 1989.
Definitely peak Akai design. Akai definitely cultivated very distinctive design languages.
In my experience they also tend to be of a better quality than comparable devices. I owned a one of their "walkmans" back in the day any since then many AKAI Pro devices, mainly samplers - and must admit I am a bit of a fan.
Big Akai fan. I owned several devices back in the day. Nice video.👍
@@SierraLimaOscar I bought their last hardware rack sampler, and they promised they would be implementing direct from drive sample playback. It never happened.
On similar way, I liked Sansui
Recently Akai has become notorious for their Rhythm Wolf drum synth which is apparently hated by many musicians. Oh well, no publicity is bad publicity, right? (Boeing shaking their head, "No" in the back of the room for some reason).
Just when I think Mat has covered every possible weird piece of obscure A/V equipment in existence… he finds something new.
Well la-de-dah, on a first name basis with Techmoan I see 🤣
Old. He finds something old.
You have no idea...how many more Odd and weird Items there are. the amount you have seen so far, is just a small amount... we may be here for a while...
That's his job, mate 😂
Same! And I'm a sucker for any audio tech from the 80s on back
A "budget" offering from the mid-'80s shows more features, care, and thought than most anything made today for four times the cost, adjusted for inflation.
The color and font used for the nomenclature are perfect. Really brings home the feel of the time. The Wipeout stuff was done by Designers' Republic BTW. Great video!!
Does anyone else miss this sort of Ingenuity and creativity that we just don't seem to get any more ? just a black box with as little as possible ? Nice video
Yes! Is there even any choice any more? Visiting the electronics department of any store, be it John Lewis, Dixons, etc. used to be so exciting with constant change.
Sad to see during a recent visit to the B&O website that their offering is entirely Bluetooth or whatever 🥱.
Well, everything's made for shareholders now. And shareholders are adverse to ingenuity and creativity, all they want is a line that goes up forever.
@@KronoGarrett And the companies don't design and make this stuff themselves anymore. They probably just look at the catalogue of a generic Chinese manufacturer, order a few thousand of a model they like, and slap their logo on it.
That’s not the reason why there’s no ingenuity in hifi anymore. Nobody wants it anymore. There’s no money in the market. They literally can’t afford to be flashy and daring.
Same with phones before iPhone and Android came along. Endless creativity in phones.
Shared power and audio cable. You can listen to AC/DC using actual AC/DC lines.
Peak reddit comment 😂
Lmao, it probably due to cheap circuit design, or a fault..
Even old SSL recording/mixing desks have channel crosstalk.
It ain't easy, but you can take it on a highway to hell.
“It’s not a big enough box to bring any boom or blast any ghettos.”
Gotta love Mat’s sense of humor.
It’s part of his charm.
Cool system. Love the rotating speakers. Hard to believe this thing is from 1984. Looks much newer.
nah it looks exactly 1984 imo. it's just in great condition. i collect 80's stuff
I chuckled when he said that. He does have that snarky charm! I swear I watch just for that alone!
When I first saw it I assumed it was from the late 80s, surprised by how early it turned out to be. Maybe it's the glossy red finish (would have gone nicely in my trendy red, white and grey childhood bedroom!) and that typeface, that still looks fresh today.
It looks like something pulled straight from the 80's cyberpunk anime, I love it!
Not '80s but it would look good in the EVA-02
Akira!!!!!!
Not really, it doesn't have any digital screen. By the 1980s those radios became available, with PLL tuners.
Soundblaster
There was one of these in our kitchen when I was a teenager; it was the Sunday-evening end of chart show and afterwards tuner. Parent brought it home from a trip to HK in about 84/85
I was today years old when I found out that the speakers twist.
Oh my goodness I feel like I'm in love with this little thing.
Akai was so elite back in the day. That red color and the soft edges scream Akai. I love that you used one of the reel to reel cassettes. Aki always used them in their ads.
Akai means red
What an interesting little device! And I’m impressed by the quality of its radio too. As a teenager of the 80s who only listened to cassette and radio with no money or room for a decent turntable system. I would have loved having something like this, for listening to music when at home.
That font screams, "PJ-11 by Akailand Yutani Corperation: Building Better Worlds...and cheap stereos!"
😅😅😅😅 🛸 👽 📻
Or very expensive stereos.. (3x the price of similar stereos of the time.)
akai even at budget is a very good product
Ya'll this was OBVIOUSLY a cheaper, entry level product. No need to "actually" anyone here.
This sort of compact listening device is very popular and gets exported to the offworld colonies such as Hadley's Hope and Colantha.
I have this, bought it for uni years ago, spray painted it metallic silver and weathered it with hobby paints. Still works.
That would be neat to see!
Vandalism!!! 😲
Yeah ... we all did things like that in those days. 😀
Pointing the speakers straight down is perfect for when you live in a flat and your want to annoy the people who live below you!
Fantastic industrial design. Someone spent a lot of time making all that work.
I miss this type of quirky but functional design. Lovely looking unit and really pleased to have had the chance to see it! Thanks :-)
Agreed
We are at a solar activity peak at the moment, so Short Wave is pretty good at the moment.
Akai made some really great kit back in the day - I still have an HXA-3DBX tape deck from around this time which still works :)
It doesn't matter what the thumbnail picture, we will click on anything you post. I've never seen a stereo like that before, but I would have liked to have one. Amazing what you find to show us. Thanks for the video.
This is Techmoan at its best: funky shadowy formats that no one absolutely had no idea.
Such a well designed and great looking little player, I absolutely love it!
Akai and TDK!!! You've taken me back to some of the happiest days of my life!!
Did you own any Akai tech?
Me too! I owned an Akai timer for my Rotel midi system. 1983.
The design of that stereo still looks nice today while looking like the 80s and having that japanese sci-fi mecha touch with the font used on the text legends on the buttons, sliders, and speaker body.
Makes me think if a similar design with the center component housing a subwoofer instead is possible as a sort of all in one speaker system much like the Kanto Syd you shown last week.
Nice little machine - I want one now..... 😂 I remember having an Akai VHS machine - it was our first recorder; a top loader with on-screen graphics for play/rewind etc. Really flash at the time!
Theres one in red on Carousel, if that isn't the exact one Matt acquired.
My parents had always thought little of their Akai portable radio from the 70's, with all its fiddlier bits, but I thought it genius, despite its modish design. The PJ-11 has taken that to an all time new level. Brilliant review!
For me, the first thing that comes to mind is not the Nostromo but the droids from Silent Running. Or maybe something else. But _something_ sure comes to mind.
That power adapter is one of the best designs I've ever seen. The speaker arrangement is amazing, and yeah, I would have LOVED to have one of these beauties back in the day.
Also, the hum from the AC power adapter is almost certainly due to a dead capacitor, since that's how you filter out the 60hz hum from the power line.
For me it was Warhammer 40k Dreadnoughts. But also Wipeout racing ships
So cool, I've never seen so a stereo with so many speaker placement options. Very sci-fi looking. You always find the most interesting tech, great video as usual!
I have a normal stereo with two speakers. I can place those in any location and position I like.
10:10 This is a quad band, with shortwave? That's not a bad deal for 150 dollars.
What a nice little unit.
10 seconds in and I love that thing!
The "Imma make an interrsting thumb image" moment is spot-on the reason I clicked that fast so, good job!
"It's not big enough box to bring any boom or to blast any ghettos..." 🤣 That made me 🤭 chuckle. Thanks for a new vid Matt!
I had one of the smaller boxes like this that had shortwave bands on it. When I took it out to the country I could hear the larger shortwave stations of the day very clearly and easily. My favourites of the day, like WRNO or Superpower KUSW played the classic rock of the day. Others were equally great like Radio Australia. Had a great time with them.
I'm surprised the aux input is a 3.5mm jack. Everything else I've seen from this era uses RCA jacks. The 3.5 mm jack aux input jack didn't become common until the mid-2000s.
I was initially surprised too, but then in the late 1990s I had an all-in-one boombox where the aux input was phono jacks and at the time I thought that was weird.
I guess it saved space in this device, and let's face it you weren't going to plug in a full-sized stereo component; this was really just intended for CD walkmans, which were never outfitted with full-size RCA jacks.
For sure, seems everyone had a 3.5mm to dual-RCA adapter to be able to put things through them
Seeing how the entire power supply sits next to all the electronics with no shielding it probably had the buzz back in the day as well.
Customer: "So what's the wow & flutter on that?"
AKAI: "Yes."
Could be decades old rubber bands
They made beautiful slim and interesting personal stereos. I loved mine for many years
Love these vintage gems you share! This PJ-11 looks like an alien spacecraft with those rotating speakers! Who knew 80s design could be so futuristic and functional? Great video as always!
Never ceases to amaze where you get or even hear about these devices ,but all in all quite interesting 🤔😀
Almost all of your videos are watched regardless of the Title and thumbnail. At least for me 🙂
I had the PJ-33 back in the day. It was actually silver and red, not white and red. Great little stereo. The big handle could rotate down to prop it up at an angle.
Wow I had a PJ-33 too, paired with a Sound Burger.. was perfect for my 17 year old self….
Never seen one of these, the design and versatility that’s gone into this is amazing. I would have loved ones of these.
I love and miss modular design like this, like everything is its own component. I would have loved this as a kid.
My brother had one. I was always envious. And the myriad of C batteries it plowed through were always a sticky point when he let me use it.
the color, shape, and font, gives me a vibe something Akira would have used in the anime
4:35 nobody should be surprised that there are Germans diligently archiving things.
When I was a child my Dad had a pair of Akai speakers (and personal stereo) that also took their own batteries and rotated 45 and 90 degrees.
That makes a huge difference with the speakers angled! It makes such a difference that it carries over to the video real well.
Not only nowadays you can make adaptations to devices like this, but if you want, using a Bluetooth receiver in that aux-in can expand even the capabilities to modern standards. What I'm saying is that a beautiful device like this one can be totally a daily-main-one in use, if someone would like so.
It has a cheerful aesthetic
I'm a typedesigner and I'm working on a typeface similar to one used by AKAI on these products and this video blew my mind.
I love all the options with the speakers. You don’t see creativity with audio devices like that anymore.
I love stereos like this! The bright red, the angle adjustable speakers - it's just good fun but still works well.
Lovely little thing. Really love the design, deffo reminds me of Wipeout like you said. With the speakers down it reminds me of the robots in Silent Running.
Thats one of the coolest stereos ever!
Super cool. I love it!
In 1985 my conservative Grandmother surprised us all by buying a bright Red Philips Cubic Compo D8254. While not as quirky as this Akai, its cassette transport control design was off the scale with a grid of flat, front-facing buttons which I've not seen emulated since. Miss those days of exciting designs, thank you Mat!
Quirky in a good way. It’s nice to see something that's well made.
🙂👍
The design and the speakers orientation setting are excellent.
Brilliant, actually! Nice work, Matt and a very good find. You set a high bar, in truth.
What a neat little device!
Thank you for all the hard work and another great educational video.
Another cool stereo I won’t be able to afford because of the tech moan effect !
It is a pleasant surprise when the radio works well, especially on different bands.
What a sweet little radio!
WOW, i remember selling these when i worked in a Tech store in the 80's
I mean... With exposed power connections like that, it's two crocodile clips and my bench PSU 🤣🤣🤣
We could only afford a mono AKAI unit in the 80s but its tape unit had exactly the same quirks. The two "thump" at the end of your recording caused by the simple recording circuit and the permanent magnet erease head bing back old memories. ☺
I had a favorite cassette back in the 80's with a few thumps in it from accidentally pushing record down a little bit when going to play the cassette! I got used to that thump being there as part of the song 😂
Great review and what a lovely little unit it is. Probably still worth quite a bit and a nice addition to anyone's collection.
I had an 80's Alba Hifi system last week, with phono, radio, double cassette, which I was going to offer TechMoan to repair (and keep) but I could not find any way of contacting him on his site, so unfortunately, the Alba went into the skip...probably the best place for it 😅
Sadly probably true..
"Twisted Stereo" is a great name for psychedelic rock band!
Or a twisted sister tribute duo..
That twist is pretty cool. Nice design, looks remarkable.
Cool! Reminds me of my Grundig Party Center 700 that I still have. Not as funky a colour scheme but the detachable speakers are a common feature.
What a ace little stereo
It has similar functions to the popular cassette boomboxes of the time, but the speaker and detachable adapter seem like unique attempts.
I bought a pair of SX-R7 speakers, a camera bag and mains power brick and used them with my walkman 2 in the great outdoors !
happy days, later I got me a 'Sound burger' as well !
Great video, I seem to remember seeing one of these, in a Bank branch I used to work in many years ago, it did look cheap but it gave out respectable sound, and the speakers had been detached, no-one ever connected them up whilst I worked there, it just played the radio most of the time, and then a cassette of Christmas tunes during December. 👍🏻🙂
I'm more intrigued by the gimmicky twisting speakers than I really should be.
Happy Christmas "Mat". All the best wishes. Thanks for all the enjoyable, informative repairs (successful and not 😊) dive into audio and video devices, old and new, from the obscure (muse laser disc technology), dashcams, firmware updatable christmas trees to pinball machines. Hope you have a wonderful 2024 Christmas into 2025.
This thing is almost smaller than the cassette. The battery space is bigger and heavier than the rest of the machine.
At 2:45 it's a beautiful moment where it looks like a viewport shading or material preview in a 3D program is replaced with a fully rendered image. The sunlight from outside and all the shadows are in contrast with the plain and sharp lighting.
For your information, The Nostromo wasn't a dropship. It was a space tug. It was towing 4 ore refineries. Other than that, good video.
Lol, no one cares.
@ladymctavish3299 Well! Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! I'm saying that as an "Alien" fan!
+1 for actually including the thumbnail in the video somewhere.
Another stellar find from the past ! Thanks !
The 1980s was THE time for crazy designs! Love the boombox! Nowadays, how many ways to style a boring rectangle with a touch-sensitive screen?
This little gadget looks absolutely great. And that other more high end version looks intriguing too.
Gloriously retro !!
I saw this 30 minutes after this came out and bought the only listing for this on eBay in Australia.
Albeit in black… a steal at 100 bucks postage included, I rationalised I had been meaning to get a radio for emergency situations, and given the epic price and super close proximity to the video release that I get in at the ground level before the techmoan tax is applied.
Not sure if the tape mech works, but it will give me a project to fix, which wouldn’t be the first time I’ve bought a bargain and fixed it up after watching a techmoan vid..
Certainly soon retro enthusiasts will be moaning only that Technoan increases prices of cool retro appliances :P
Love your work mate.
I'm amazed at the obscure items you find to review.
Always entertaining!
The font of the model number on the speaker is quite amazing. It's kind of rare that past futuristic fonts still look futuristic today.
Had something very similar as a kid, the PJ-15, was possibly the next year model iteration. Had it in the Red (seems only one result for this colour on image search), and was heartbroken when our house got robbed and was stolen. We got it replaced under insurance, but unfortunately there was only the boring black model available. Still wish I'd held onto that one though.
Can't remember if the speakers were detachable like these ones either? The EQ and play buttons were moved to the front of the device, and the tuner etc. were up top. The speakers were also a bit more stylised, but at the same time it does unfortunately make it look a little cheaper than the PJ-11 losing the red speaker surrounds.
There was a big "3 Dimensional Free Angle Speaker" marketing sticker on the front of the tape deck cover which I never removed too, ~7 year old me could never get my head around those words.
I think I've seen one similar to this as a kid. One of neighbours owned it.
Fabulous little music system Mat! Thank you for yet another video looking at the golden era of tech.
What a quirky little device! Would have loved to have seen how well it would do connected to the wow and flutter meter, but not sure it would have done so well!
Great to see Akai featured, they're a favourite brand of mine certainly. Made some great consumer gear, no snobbery and mostly good quality. It's a real shame they went the way they did and disappeared.
Thanks for the video. cool little setup. really catching and the hughe cassette window pays respect to your nice reel to reel type cassette.
I just started watching and as someone that owned a ghetto blaster back in the '80s I think my favorite feature and one that I would have wish would have wished to have seen on more stereos like this is the batteries in the speakers. Cuz having the audio components in the middle and then batteries on each end would make the whole thing kind of balance. Maybe a little bit easier to carry
Love the style of this device! I would love to have one. Real '80s SF jewel
love the retro tech reviews! what a neat little device I love the design on it, super retro.
Good morning from the southeast USA, Techmoaners!
It’s time for the Bang&Olufsen cassette deck.
Do you plan to add this comment to _every_ Techmoan video? 🤨