Congratulations on a million subscribers Matt. If I may, you've done more over the years than simply review equipment; your videos have brought a sense of wonder back into the world. Heart felt thanks.

@nikescar

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I'm not into the vast majority of products and tech on this channel but I still haven't missed a video.

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

Just checked it out and i had been unsubbed!! Luckily I was still getting the recommendations though

@Martin_from_SC

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. I've discovered a lot of cool, obscure technology from the past on this channel.

@klaernie

4 жыл бұрын

Second that. There's a million people watching because the content is so good!

@Fluteboy

4 жыл бұрын

Mat has done so well. The content is always phenomenal. Another commemorative Play Button on its way?

Congratulations on reaching the big 1.000.000 mate! And to top it of with my starting brand of keyboards.. Technics, that's pretty neat! If I had known this earlier, I could have made a MIDI file version of the outro music for you to play on the MT-90S... maybe later! Let's get you to cool 10.000.000? ^_^

@ross-carlson

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, ABSOLUTELY! Been here since the early 100,000's - amazing my friend!!!

@ainzul3545

4 жыл бұрын

My PC Clock says 22:11, July 11 2020. Techmoan's video says July 11 2020. Your comment says 2 days ago... WTF?!?!

@AndersEngerJensen

4 жыл бұрын

Ainz ul Patreons get early access. :)

@ainzul3545

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndersEngerJensen Aaaah makes sense. I thought I was stuck in a reality shift.... Kinda disappointed now.

@ziginox

4 жыл бұрын

I have an old Technics SX-PR804, makes me sad that they exited the musical instrument market after it and the KN7000 :(

I usually watch your videos to see entertaining pieces of technology and novelties. But I realized today you're in fact a proper historian, almost archeologist, documenting with every devices our modern electronic history. Thanks for all your work ! Future generations won't learn History in books, but here with you on KZread.

@michaeldeluca6331

Жыл бұрын

Calm down

@e28forever30

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeldeluca6331 Be polite.

Loved this video. I actually have an experience with something similar. Back in the early 90's, the band i was in went into a makeshift studio to record a few songs for our second 7in single. The guy who recorded us, was all excited about "digitally" recording us. Much to our chagrin, he handed us a VHS tape. Now, being 20 years old our reaction was less than excited, mostly because we didnt know what to do with it or how to listen to it for that matter. That was our master tape. We were told it was CD quality. In the end, the record was not very good(due to massive beer consumption and having a rudimentary concept of writing and playing) but the quality of the recording was fantastic. somehow we sold all 500 copies we pressed. Thanks for jarring back that memory!

@michptrs

2 жыл бұрын

what was your band called?

@JWD1992

Жыл бұрын

Is the record on Discogs? If not, you should add it! And if it is on Discogs, you should add your story. Very cool behind-the-scenes info.

@raykolcun752

Жыл бұрын

@@JWD1992 it actually is on Discogs. The band name is Liverball and the ep title is Test Burn. Amateur-ish punk rock. The clarity of the digital recording exposed our lack of talent that the previous analog recordings we did hid under distortion and beer lol so It’s not very good, obviously. For the era and the low budget aspect of the recording the quality is actually reasonably good. But it was of a time and place and a fun experience.

*I love Technics design from this era - looks fairly modern even now*

@melskunk

4 жыл бұрын

I guessed it was from the nineties at least, not 1981!

@herrbonk3635

4 жыл бұрын

What makes you feel HiFi or home electronics from the early 1980s would look old fashioned? (It's not equipment from WW2 we are talking about.) The basic designs patterns have been largely unchanged in mainstream products since around 1976, and in some cases much earlier, at least in Japan and Europe. It went pretty cheesy and plastic in the late 80s and 90s though, when the markets were saturated, but it has recoverered pretty good since then, in many areas.

@GoldSrc_

4 жыл бұрын

@@melskunk As a rule of thumb, if the design has rounded edges, it's from the 90's. But if it has sharp and square edges, it's from the 80's.

@melskunk

4 жыл бұрын

@@GoldSrc_ that is a super good rule of thumb!

@MrDuncl

4 жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 In the early 1980s they were only just moving away from silver brushed aluminium panels and fake woodgrain.

Digital audio actually has a noise floor and it is defined by the amount of bits. Fewer bits means more rounding errors and normally these would produce an audible artefact, but there is a trick that turns them into nice white noise: dithering. Basically, you round up or down randomly, and that removes repeating patterns that humans preserve as artifacting. But yeah, with with few bits, the noise is loud. Another way to look at it is that the number of bits tells you how loud can you play the audio with the noise remaining at the same volume.

@Will-fn7bz

4 жыл бұрын

This is a very interesting tidbit that I definitely didn't know. An example of a real contribution to the topic instead of all the noise from people who didn't get enough attention as a child. Thank you.

@sdstorm

4 жыл бұрын

@@Will-fn7bz I'm just glad someone read the comment. :) Usually commenting on KZread feels like shouting in the wind.

@Techmoan

4 жыл бұрын

I’d imagine that any noise on something like this or a CD player it’s so low that whatever other pieces of audio equipment I have in the chain would drown it out.

4 жыл бұрын

It's worth watching this digital audio presentation from Monty Montgomery. It clears some misconceptions about digital audio, and it's very well presented. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX2Fm6uRg7jgpbA.html

@luissantiago5163

4 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting. Appreciate the info

@Techmoan . . . this is off-topic from this YT subject, as I want to express my appreciation with how you *Title* the descriptions of your uploads in an honest and fair way with your YT posts. I say this as I've noticed the escalating amount of _click-bait_ among YT channels of late. I'm becoming much more selective with what I view on YT; with the *Title description* of the YT posts being a major part of that selective process. YT posters that use alarmist adverbs, or alarmist words in general; and with brightly colored large fonts with YT thumbnails wordings, I'm less inclined to click on it as compared to past years.

@railgap

3 жыл бұрын

^ THIS ^

@godfreypoon5148

3 жыл бұрын

^ yep, *this* ^ edit: !!! GONE SEXUAL POLICE CALLED !!! I NEARLY DIEDED !!!

@sadesurbex2816

3 жыл бұрын

HOLY SHIT THIS EXACTLY

@Some_One_One

2 жыл бұрын

LEARN THIS ONE TRICK THAT GETS PEOPLE TO CLICK YOUR VIDEOS

This is quite impressive for that time. The electronics needed for A/D and D/A conversion was huge, not to mention the mechanics needed to to locate the beginning and end of the recordings on the tape. Those engineers did a great job!

I used to use VHS Hi-Fi to record 6-hour-long music "mix-tapes" for parties, so no one would have to mess with my audio equipment during the party. Hide the amp and VCR in a locked room, and run the speaker wires out under the door into another room. Press play and you wouldn't have to touch it for another 6 hours. It was great! Oh -- and congratulations on hitting 1 Million Subscribers!

@OneRoomShed

4 жыл бұрын

Right on! I used to put audio on VCR tapes too. I would also record radio programs on them too (Howard Stern and local collage radio shows). It was a great option for long recordings back in the day.

@RJDA.Dakota

4 жыл бұрын

Did EXACTLY the same thing. Used a JVC HiFi VHS machine and used the HiFi recording section and had nearly 6 hours of music for a wedding party. Some asked for copies of the recordings which was easily available when I re-recorded this music onto cassette. And of course everything was awesome. And congratulations on your new milestone.

@EtTubeBruTube

4 жыл бұрын

Or when your buddy got the 4-disc Clapton Crossroads boxed set and you could record it on one tape. Of course on the 6 hour speed, tracking noise set it after a year or two.

@donbest5024

4 жыл бұрын

Before car CD players I put albums on vhs tapes and played on portable Panasonic vhs stereo vcr through car stereo for 6 to 8 hours continuous music.

@professordetective807

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if any shops used it for the muzak?

Audio on HiFi VHS was so excellent. I routinely used it for 6 hour recordings from radio or for mixes to play for an entire party. Seemed indistinguishable from CD or was very close in quality. It was like an audio quality secret weapon of the 1980s.

@minigolfkid

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Talbot oh cool.

@dj1NM3

4 жыл бұрын

I did a show on community radio in the early 2000's and they were using VHS audio for pre-recorded shows and the overnight/graveyard on longplay. They only replaced it less than a decade ago when the studio was moved to a different building.

@telocho

4 жыл бұрын

My vhs hifi produced some rattle in the sound when making pure audio recordings.

@Hector_Malot

3 ай бұрын

The DAT sounded better than the CD, that's why they killed it.

@rich1051414

2 ай бұрын

@@Hector_Malot Hilariously, a TON of masters were sent off to the CD press on DAT. DAT was very much not killed by CD, at least not in the professional field. CD was the consumer format, DAT was what the professionals used.

Just when you think that Techmoan has run out of audio formats...

@TheLinuxChannel

4 жыл бұрын

LOL. Cant deny that :)

@appsjuragan7611

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think he has reviewed punch card audio format

@TheLinuxChannel

4 жыл бұрын

@@appsjuragan7611 LOL

@jetison333

3 жыл бұрын

@@appsjuragan7611 do the old player pianos that play off of punch cards count?

@Kylefassbinderful

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you ever think he has run out of formats? lol

I'm fairly certain my college radio station had one of these in the early 90's that they used to record all their radio shows. In fact I remember seeing it there and thinking it was odd when the guy who ran the program mentioned they used a digital recorder onto VHS. Audio quality was excellent from what I recall.

The feeling when you binge watch a show and you are sad when you’re done- that’s the feel I get from the full outro. Always loved it and missed it. Knowing where the audio came from makes it 1000x better. Then history of BBC and NHK developing PCM was riveting. This is the top notch, top shelf techmoan content id pay to sit in a theatre to watch. Congrats on 1M- I will always support you in any endevour. Thank you for so much content, it’s a special thing to sit down and watch, better than any cinema or TV. Just......thank you.

@dontcheckmychannel-NJ17

4 жыл бұрын

Loll

@Gadgetonomy

4 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean! I love the little digital sound right at the very end of these videos, I sit through the credits just to hear it. Then you know it's going to be another week at least for the next video :(

@eliza5421

4 жыл бұрын

thanks satan

I used to record cd's with my hifi vhs recorder. I wrote album name and song titles with my Atari ST and recorded that as video, so one could listen to music and see song titles from tv.

@p0llenp0ny

4 жыл бұрын

Same. But with a Commodore 64.

@cokecl

3 жыл бұрын

Send Techmoan one of those tapes!

@pelgervampireduck

3 жыл бұрын

that sounds so "futuristic"!!!!!!.

@richardbaumgart2454

2 жыл бұрын

i was just thinking i should've put my vinyl on a hifi vcr back in the day...but prolly couldn't afford it back then...hifi vcr was top $ in the 80's

@richardbaumgart2454

2 жыл бұрын

come to think of it i actually have a Philips cd/ hi-fi vcr combo in the basement from the 90's

"I'll see your mixtape, and raise you this *MEGA MIX*

Matt, this is a very exciting find - probably my favourite. Early PCM technology was pretty amazing at the time, and this Technics machine was most definitely cutting edge.

Look at you with a million subscribers. Congratulations. Well done

@connorstrothman7287

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone saw that!

@zahariiliev

3 жыл бұрын

Zzz zzz zzz

@VauxhallViva1975

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, quite a milestone!!! This video is very interesting. I remember being on an FM radio station back in the 90's, and they used a HiFi VCR on LP to record the live program for archive. LP gave six hours of HiFi stereo audio per E180 VHS cassette. The audio performance of the HiFi VCR's was exceptional, and better then any reel-to-reel recorder of the time, and could record for much longer then even the best R-2-R machine at the time. When EP came along, you could get up to NINE hours of crystal-clear audio on a standard 3-hour E180 VHS tape. Certainly the video was poor at EP on an E180, but if all you want was the audio.......

"In the long distant future" Somehow I pictured Mr. Techmoan's head in a jar, Futurama Style, still teaching us, simple mortals, the wonders of technology in theyear 3020...

@lokedhs

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's likely that the player will still be working nicely when KZread is decommissioned.

@andljoy

4 жыл бұрын

And using robot nixons body!

@andrewgwilliam4831

4 жыл бұрын

"Welcome to the world of tomorrow!"

@aftereando

4 жыл бұрын

@@andljoy and people will finally stop complaining about his fingernails hangnails when he zooms the camera.

At the time these came out, I was learning to read Japanese and since audio has always been one of my interests, I saw reviews of this unit in tech magazines.

That composite output...WOW. When I thought this was already an INCREDIBLE piece of equipment, then it has that functionality. A full blown composite video signal with the visual PCM data. SO COOL. That low bandwidth audio almost seems like a cue track. Maybe they had planned on using that as a high speed scanning function. The electronics at the time had no way of decoding an 8x speed PCM stream, so that cue track could be used instead. Thank you for the great video. If I win the lottery, I'm putting one of those next to a Nagra VPR-5.

Another great piece of history. I remember when the BBC started demoing Nicam Stereo on Radio 3. They used a Sony F1 processor and U-Matic combo to record the Proms. Normal FM showed no real difference apart from less tape noise, but the Nicam was a revelation. I attended a private demo at Broadcasting House (I had a friend in the Engineering Team who were supporting it) and listening to the digital recording with only two stages of analogue was amazing. Of course at the time there were no digital mixing desks, or amplifiers with digital input, but they did use a Quad setup with a pair of ESL-57s. At the time it was the clearest music recording I had ever heard. They used a piano concerto, and the quite sections with just the piano where so clear you could imagine you were in the same room. It would be interesting to compare the Sony PCM with Technics. One of the issues with digital audio or video until at least the late 90s was that coding and decoding at high quality pretty much required dedicated hardware. One of the weird things I discovered in the early 80s was that the cost of ADC had come down drastically because of Cruise Missiles! Apparently they needed a fast A to D and TRW bought a license to a BBC Research Department design that normally took up two large PCBs and made it into a rather large chip. The chip still cost as much as the two boards but it made the equipement much smaller and therefore cheaper. A strange bit of history. In the mid-90s I consulted on a project for MTV to use remote video servers for inserting ads into the downlinks. We digitised standard def PAL video using a SunSpark 10 workstation with a custom DSP that use 4 RISK processors. It cost £52K!

PLayed in a band in the early 90's and we recorded some events on a HIFI VHS recorder. Still have those tapes and they still sound great.

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you digitized them for archival. Tapes tend to get stuck and become unreadable over the years. Just ask NASA how much data it cost them, until they found out that such a problem exists and that they had lots of it. It's quite similar to loosing magnetization of floppies over time. Different cause, but same effect: data loss.

@anakondase

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankschneider6156 Thought about that but haven't done anything yet. Also, have to do it anyway while I have a working VCR. Can't buy a new one these days.

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

@@anakondase One tends to put such stuff off, because there is always something more important, I know, but if it is of emotional value to you, and loosing the recordings is an unpleasant thought, then create a more modern backup rather sooner than later, as the data WILL degrade. It's just a question how fast. Just a hint, but I'm pretty sure you already knew that yourself. ;-)

@anakondase

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankschneider6156 Yes, I know.

@LRM12o8

4 жыл бұрын

I thought tapes were gonna outlast modern society. All big online companies back up on tape for long-term data storage nowadays. Well, maybe tape technology has become more robust since the eighties?.. 💁‍♂️

I’m impressed at how I can’t tell a difference in the outtro music.

I used to use VHS HiFi as an audio recorder, to get up to 6 hours of playback, back in 1984. I don't think I could have afforded the SV-P100. Cool video. Thanks for the flashback.

re the VHS HiFi, when I worked at a small radio station in the early-/mid-90's, we used 6 hour VHS tapes for automation. The plus side is we could put up to 6 hours of programming on a single tape. On the downside, of course you had to record 6 hours in real-time. So it wasn't like "real" automation, but it did allow us a cheap way to "time shift" what we put on the air.

@deadmeat1240

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of Radio stations used HIFi VHS for recording Air Checks of entire shifts. Particularly Talk radio. This was before digital was financially viable for most in the 80's and 90's. Easy to keep and catalog a huge library of shows and much cheaper than equivalent Reel to reel tape. Main advantages being the cost of the tape and recorder and the sheer length of each tape. A very cheap solution.

@elijahwatson8119

3 жыл бұрын

Did you get a lot of vehicles towed when you worked at the radio station?

@mikematerne4579

2 жыл бұрын

In the mid 90s we would use hifi VCRs to record audio in our home studios, and then transfer them to cassette tape.

Until last year, when I foolishly gave it to charity not remembering what it was, I had another piece of Sony hardware I believe was incredibly rare. It was a 400 disc DVD and SACD player. I even had a number of SACDs for it. If I still had it I'd have shipped it to the UK for you for a bit of celebration on the million subscribers mark. Cheers, sir.

@Techmoan

4 жыл бұрын

It’s OK I’ve got a couple of those - I’m confident it’ll be the same model too. I’ll take a look at them one day.

As a kid I was very impressed with the audio quality of VHS tapes that had Hi-Fi tracks. I actually made a tape of a few of my CD;'s with video from some games I was playing. I was blown away by how good it sounded.

@leetay9132

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pleased to discover that I wasn't alone in using a decent VHS as an audio only tape deck. It certainly had my bottom of the range Marantz SD220 tape deck from a decade earlier beaten. My old Akai from 1994ish weighs a tonne and has Dolby surround processing (added rear channels only) and a little 12 WPC amp designed to drive the rear channel speakers.

@brpadington

3 жыл бұрын

@@yorkemar That sucks. are you saying that the VHS tape generates tones on it that are damaging to certain speaker? I have large 4way speakers I used for play back but i only messed with it a few times. I guess it would depend on if your VCR or Stereo receiver has filtering to remove those damaging frequencies.

@yorkemar

3 жыл бұрын

@@brpadington Just watch the volume when playing it if you have smaller speakers. It shows with excessive cone movement.

@xaverlustig3581

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPX64Channel VHS Hifi was initially marketed as a a high quality audio recorder. The early machines had audiophile features like manual recording level, RCA in/out, simulcast, MPX filter etc. This all waned in later years.

@SuperSy99

3 жыл бұрын

We have eric clapton unpluged and bryan adams concert both in cd and vhs hi f. same title.the vhs deliver fat and uncompresed sound than the audio cd.

Congrats on the 1 Million Matt. Youve been a huge influence on my own tech support business, so much so that I've moved into restoring and repairing a lot of old retro tech, turntables, tape decks and even the odd laser disk player included. Keep up the amazing work and here's to the next million.

Hi, Matt! I am glad to finally see this beautiful machine in your review. It's sad that you didn't mention my channel and the article on the habr.com which probably was used to create this video, however, I am glad you purchased it and as an owner of Technics SV-P100 I would like to comment a couple of things from the video: 1) First of all, yes, SV-P100 sounds really beautiful and you can't tell the difference between CD Audio and this 14-bit PCM. 2) This machine vulnerable of some problems, most notably the leaky Matsushita caps, especially in closed-case digital boards. Also, digital circuits in all of SV-P100 (I had two of them) are often unable to correct errors, so occasionally clicks can be heard. It's sad to say, but Sony with their PCM-F1 made way more robust to error correction machine. 3) And that's right, Digital In/Out is virtually the same as Video In/Out sockets in other PCM processors and can be used with another VTR. The unique feature of the SV-P100 is that it can be synchronized with an external video signal instead of any other (non-pro) PCM adapters, which theoretically can allow editing on these machines. This is why Technics initially planned to make them white-colored, since this is the color of the Panasonic's broadcast equipment in those years. But problems with error correction and very slow tape transport apparently did not allow this model to be anything more than a rare and expensive Hi-Fi equipment. 4) You can hear a weird analog sound from the linear audio channel, and it's not a mistake! If you connect your headphones to the SV-P100 and try to fast-forward or rewind the tape while hold "play" button, you will hear your music in accelerated playback. This can't be achieved by reading-and-decoding a video pattern (no PCM processor can do this), but instead it was using analog audio. Technics managed to do this trick of being able to hear what you recorded while rewinding. And again, along with the editing marks, that was another unique feature that no one has ever done. 5) Technics SV-P100 is rare and, of course, expensive machine. But not so rare as Hitachi PCM-V300 which I also have in my collection. For about 300 units of SV-P100 were produced while only 70 or 100 units of PCM-V300 were ever made. Hitachi made the similar to Technics machine, while using VT-6500 as a transport mecha that was shoved without any changes inside the case, even with the front panel that was stuck inside :D So, if you need some interesting information about this strange era of an early digital hardware, I can help you find it and also offer you part of my unique (and probably the world's largest) collection of PCM hardware. Cheers, your fan from Russia.

@VCD-Channel

4 жыл бұрын

@tan j maz No need to sub, man. I can barely make videos even in my native language.

All these years with Techmoan, great. I appreciate that. Thank you.

11:28 The counter stops at index mark 1337. Coincidence? I think not, this is a confession that Mr Techmoan is indeed a geek :)

@darkcoeficient

4 жыл бұрын

Synchronicity

This is amazing. Thanks for showing this piece of vintage tech. I remember the Sony PCM in 1990 a friend of mine used in his band. He "digitized" the audio to and from a separate Betamax unit via the video in / out. Cool stuff and quite costly in that era. Congrats on the 1M subscribers!

I worked with a Alesis ADAT, multitrack recorder (8 tracks on a VHS tape)

@crashbandicoot4everr

3 жыл бұрын

@Plastic Icon 2 - Freewheeling Gunslinger Edition That's the DTRS format isn't it?

@klaatubob

3 жыл бұрын

Correction, a SuperVHS tape for the ADAT.

@klaatubob

3 жыл бұрын

@@crashbandicoot4everr No, F1

@klaatubob

3 жыл бұрын

@@crashbandicoot4everr and the ADAT wasn't DTRS, that was the DA-88.

@jacksonsneed7689

3 жыл бұрын

This comment & replies made me smile. 😁📼📼LOVED my ADATs!!📼📼 Had 3 Alexis XT20s chained together in one of my very first (semi) serious home studio setups. Loved that SuperVHS was an inexpensive media at the time, and of course you can't forget the ol' 'death-by-patchbay!' Ah, the memories of tangled D-SUB to XLR snake cable insanity definitely makes my grateful for my Pro Tools rig. I kinda miss the madness though, but definitely not the troubleshooting!

I've been watching TechMoan for years now and I'm so happy to see you hit the 1M. So well deserved. Congratulations!

Today is 2 Apr 2022 and I rewatched this video, because it came up after Techmoan’s most recent video, and I was as captivated by this wonderful piece of hardware as I was the first time I heard about it, right here. I want to really look inside one, see how it works, how they got DSP’s to do what they did back then, given the technology and just so many things. I’m forever curious about things like this, so it was great to rewatch it and still feel the same wonder I did the first time around.

Hearing that 40 year old machine play the outro actually got me in the feels. You're doing God's work Techmoan.

Congrats for the million subscribers!

Just when you thought you saw everything about VHS based off LGR and Technology Connections.. Matt comes in with this beast and celebrates 1mil subs... Like a boss.

What a machine. Technics came came with some incredible gear back in the days. Thanks for making a video about it, because it, indeed, is very rare. Awesome.👍👍👍

this was all the ( HF audio ) rage at 1981 CES show. . . i know cause i was there...... lov what u do . . . . Cheers

Well deserved 1M Matt, amazed it didn't happen sooner with your level of quality uploads. Here's to 2M! 🍻

Heartfelt congratulations on reaching 1 million Mat - and thank you for providing the fascinating material that has *earned* you so many subscribers. Some would consider this esoteric (hah!) - and very few would have the energy and intellect to explore the history of hi-fidelity with such zeal and detail We're very fortunate you're as much in love with this as we are, and that you have such a natural gift for presentation.

Back in 1998/1999 when I didnt have a CD Player built in my stereo system, I used to plug my Sony Discman into my Panasonic HiFi VCR and copy some borrowed audio cds. The fact that I could record using EP (SLP) speed was a bonus, because a single VHS tape would store up to 6 hours of music with almost lossless quality. Watching this video today, 21 years later, warms my heart!

Great show, love watching all the things you find and always presented in a well thought out and entertaining manner.

80s and 90s hifi was soooo cool. missing the soul today of some solid hardware

Congrats on the 1M subs! And I hope this wonderful machine get a dedicated place in your Hi-Fi stack.

Congratulations on the million subscribers, Mat! Well deserved! Thank you for all of the wonderful videos! I look forward to more explorations of audio/video device rarities and other gadgets being shown here. Peace be with you, brother. Be well.

Thanks so much for the work that you do here Mat. You've brought so much enjoyment to so many people. Congratulations on the million!!!

Had a friend who used to record music to S-VHS and always sounded amazing...Congrats on the 1m subs mate. so well deserved...One of the best channels on You Tube.

@Linuxpunk81

4 жыл бұрын

We used svhs tapes to record the sonar working tapes in the early 2000s when I was on the USS San Juan. It was called the AN/UNK-9 but we called it the junk 9 because it was terrible and had the worst GUI ever invented 😂

@halcyondaystunes

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlfaRomeoQ yeah I remember ADAT being in studios but never used them. Think they were Alesis machines...huge beastly things but did the job 😁

What I love about this channel is that you do Mr. Dengon, this and everything in between. Plus, giving us the perspective of current technology and prices of the era it came from. Thank you, and congrats on 1m, well earned with hard work and passion. Or maybe it's because you are considered the fifth Kardashian with your glamorous look and sex appeal. Not sure which.

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

I'd take Techmoan every day over a Kardashian and I'm not even gay.

Congratulations on 1M! Love this channel ❤

Congratulations on 1 Million subscribers, Mat! I've been watching your channel for many years, it's been a pleasure to see it grow and to learn about thoroughly interesting bits of kit that I would be unaware of otherwise.

The reason I'm in love with retro electronics is that a lot of it still works or can be serviced. My synthesizers from the 80's will probably outlive me. Good luck trying to revive any of the modern gadgets in 10 years. Especially all the ones with sealed batteries.

@enilenis

4 жыл бұрын

@Eric Belinc My father has Akai GX-635D reel to reel machine and Sony TC-U5 tape deck, both from 1979. Still operational and looking brand new. 2 of my favourite tape machines, because I grew up playing with them.

@RJRC_105

4 жыл бұрын

That's because modern smartphones and suchlike are designed with planned obsolescence. Apple didn't make so much money by intending you to still be using a 5 year old iPhone today. Nope, gotta get you on that upgrade path. Don't ask questions. Consoome product, then get excited for next product.

@enilenis

4 жыл бұрын

@@RJRC_105 Same thing with electric cars. Since the battery is half the car's cost and has a limited lifespan, the assumption is that no one is going to pay, say $10K to revitalize an 8 year old vehicle, when the range becomes an issue. It's an attempt at making disposable transportation. They think people have infinitely deep pockets.

@pault151

3 жыл бұрын

"...or can be serviced." Computers, and probably hi-fi from the period, will often be on the path to destruction from leaking capacitors, in addition to the batteries.

I remember when dat was such a threat to the record industry and that their biggest fear of having unlimited digital masters all from a copy. After all the copyright concessions were made, the cost was hardly worth it except for the novelty of owning one. Then it was the cd burner and eventually mp3. Thanks for again for that trip down memory lane!

@jimbotron70

3 жыл бұрын

After the DAT and before the cd burners there were the DCC (digital compact cassette) and the Minidisc...

@todogenial119

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbotron70 the MD most likely failed to compete with MP3 players for all its anti-piracy and copy protect features

Congrats - This is one of your best episodes yet. Thank you!

As always, thanks for making these. They exude passion and wonder and I always enjoy them.

It would match a Porsche 928 of the same year almost perfectly.

@martinorbiter

4 жыл бұрын

Even better use it as the car radio on a Porsche 928.

The sentence everyone is waiting for: Let's have a look inside!

@OAleathaO

4 жыл бұрын

@ lars genrich - Actually he needs to send this to BigClive so we can hear, "Let's take it to bits..." lol

@PlaAwa

4 жыл бұрын

a great idea for his merch actually. nice way to mark a millie too. @Techmoan

@leandrolaporta2196

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha Indeed, I was like... Come on, open the darn thing!, Open it....open it haha

While listening to the end music, I was thinking about the people who thought up this device, the ones who engineered it, designed it, built it, tested it, sold it, used it. Most of them are probably still alive, although retired. However, whenever someone watches this video, maybe they will be remembered. Like the people behind many beautiful things that came and went away. Nice closure.

Still rocking my perfectly working 1987 Technics SL-P770 CD player. These dinosaurs were built to last with no planned obsolescence in mind.

Back in the day, I mastered my home recording studio compositions on VHS Hi-Fi, instead of cassette because the sound was noticeably superior.

@EtTubeBruTube

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, it was a really fine format if you couldn't afford DAT. Also great for bouncing a 4-track cassette down to stereo and back to the 4-track so you could add a 5th and 6th track.

@robinvince616

4 жыл бұрын

VHS Hi-Fi, of course, was still analogue. It sounded OK when the Hi-Fi heads were new, but as they wore you started to get a crackly buzz on the audio. The Hi-Fi sound was quite a low-level recording as it had to share the same tape area with the video without interfering with it. That low level meant Hi-Fi head wear was more of a problem than it was for the video heads which shared the same drum.

@rickshearer

4 жыл бұрын

@@robinvince616 Not for me. ...I always kept the heads clean and used high grade TDK tapes. Perhaps I didn't listen to them enough. haha

@rickshearer

4 жыл бұрын

@@EtTubeBruTube 👍🎧

@TNPFan

4 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing. I purchased two Panasonic Hi-Fi decks back in the late 1980’s and still have them both today. Unfortunately, they no longer get much use as today’s audio technology is simply better and more convenient. But I do use them on occasion when I get nostalgic. 😀

Being 14 bits wasn’t really that bad. Early CD players with “16 bit” DACs weren’t linear enough. They would give you 13-14 bits resolution on a good day.

@inshadowz

4 жыл бұрын

The old Commodore Amiga (1984) sported four 8 bit audio channels (2 on left, 2 on right), which did sound a bit "tinny", though quite amazing for its day. Later (early 90s if memory serves), through a bit of audio processing and channel trickery, a way was found to produce 14 bit stereo, which had a whole other world of sound quality to it. I'd be hard pressed to hear the difference between that and a CD (and yes I tried).

@mbee32k

4 жыл бұрын

inshadowz I stumbled over a blog a few years back. They had files sampled with different resolution and I have to agree. Still the early CD players sounded pretty bad. That was probably due to poor separation btw analog and digital subsystems. Digital circuits are noisy and precaution must be taken not to drown the analog signals in noise. Like the VHS recorder in this video. The analog signal probably leaked into the the time code recording by mistake. Then what’s to stop the digital signals leaking into the analog.

@redfive2008

4 жыл бұрын

The Atari 800 (1979) could combine its 4 8-bit audio channels into 2 16-bit channels, though they weren't left/right oriented like the Amiga's were.

@bitrot42

4 жыл бұрын

redfive2008 The Atari 8 vs 16 bits doesn't relate to digital audio resolution, it was just the size of the clock divider registers for the square wave tone generators. 16 bits allowed a larger divisor so it could produce lower tones. When I programmed music on one way back in the day, I usually combined two channels into a single 16-bit channel for bass notes, and left the remaining two channels as 8-bit, for three usable channels total. Good times!

@bitrot42

4 жыл бұрын

Bengt Johansson I believe there are some very early Philips players with 14-bit DACs. This is part of the reason for the optional pre-emphasis used on some early CDs. 16-bit didn't really need it. I think the biggest obstacle to good sound on early CD players was the lack of oversampling. They had to use complicated, steep analog filters as a result. (Some players actually switched a single DAC back and forth between channels, so high frequencies were out of phase, but in practice this wasn't really noticeable.) There were also a lot of badly mastered CDs, which didn't help matters.

Matt, most importantly these videos will keep a record on you and your enthusiasm for us to watch over and over again for tens of years. With you any review or showcase turn into a story. Keep up the good job!

DAT tape was a thing that was so important in the 90s for bands

2:36 at least it has got tracks to make up for the lack of turret and armament Also, congratulations on 1 million subs.

Well 1 million subs is right now! Congrats to Techmoan, one of me and my brother's favourite KZreadr. Greetings from Malaysia

Might be one of your best videos yet! Thanks for this and congrats on 1 million!

Excellent video as always! I see others have mentioned the ADAT machines and "SuperVHS" formats that were used for a short time in recording studios. I actually have a session on 16 track digital audio on Super VHS still. I have had it converted of course to Wav. files. I had it converted by as far as I could find "The only person left in my Small Canadian City" whom owned a working ADAT machine. I may have some of the details mixed up as far as the machine and what I recall but basically it was a 16 track digital multi tracking studio and my band were very leery of using it for our music at the time as we had been used to working with 2" tape in the studio and full analog everything up until then. As well the industry was by that time talking about the lack of warmth and how digital wasn't "As pleasant to the human ear" as Analog was. Now we have actual noise adding VST3 units or other types of ways of making it sound like the "Good Old days" LOL.

@edwarddore7617

2 жыл бұрын

I still have a SVHS VCR, I used it to transfer Hi8 footage from my camcorder. I had no idea people used the format for audio, but it does make sense.

22:20 “You night not have given them a second thought.” Mat, I spent the last twenty minutes waiting for you to explain the digital in/out ports and wondering what protocol they used! V pleased you obliged ;-)

@edmund-osborne

4 жыл бұрын

I was nervous throughout the whole video that he wasn't going to play the tape on a television. Glad he did

@nickwallette6201

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering too! I saw digital I/O and thought - that can’t be SPDIF. Can it?

SUPERB! Technics made the best gear in those days. I'm still using my technics reel to reel. Thanks so much!

@KlodFather

3 жыл бұрын

Yes... Panasonic really knew and still does know how to screw them together. Did you ever notice that Panasonic and Fujitsu run together and make each others stuff for each other? They have been thicker than brothers for many years. Fujitsu is behind many high end brands you know of. That is an interesting rat hole to explore.

Huge congratulations on reaching 1M!! Great channel, really interesting - keep ‘em coming.

Love this video! I like what you said about documenting for people now, and in the future. Just shows why we watch your videos. A unique piece of tech, explained and discussed, by a great creator and narrator. Thanks for everything you do, and congrats on the 1 million subscribers. Heres to the next million and beyond!

VHS Hifi was great! A friend of mine had a scheme that involved a parallel port video capture device, some custom programming, and VHS Hifi audio. By taking periodic JPG "screen shots" of his favorite Digital Satellite Music channel and recording the audio, at the end of the day he had a list of songs and when they were played, convenient to locate and dub off to cassette. Great video and congratulations on 1 million subscribers. I hope KZread sends you a golden MiniDisc or something...

@jonahmcgarva

4 жыл бұрын

My brother also had a HiFi VHS deck and would make 6 hr mixtapes of his favourite artists. The sound was great. :-)

I absolutely love that machine!!! What a gorgeous piece of equipment!

@74jberg

4 жыл бұрын

I always used to record sound on mi hifi vhs in the 90ties

@rich_edwards79

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Technics and Panasonic gear has always had a lovely, understated, quality look to it.

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, but it looks like the stuff used in the 70s in TV studios storing captures. wouldn't wonder, if the technology used would have actually originated from there, just being applied in a new way (audio only).

Congratulations Matt. I discovered your channel a few years ago and quickly watched through your back catalog of quirky and vintage audio equipment, and loved every minute. Your videos are top quality and your collection of interesting hifi gear is envious. I wish I had it, but if anyone *should* have it, it's you.

You absolutely deserve 100,000,000 subs and more. thanks for everything over the years!

This actually reminds me of the later ADAT system from Alesis. 8 tracks of digital audio on SVHS

@andoletube

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I used them back in 1991, when the studio I was working in changed out the Reel to Reel 16 track tape machine. To be honest, I preferred the analog machine - it sounded great and looked very cool in operation. But the ADATs gave very accurate and clean recordings, I must admit.

@agentvx8320

4 жыл бұрын

My first thought after seeing the Technics device in the video was that it would potentially be a lot more useful for musicians than any kind of HiFi type use. But only having two tracks, having no real facility for editing (unless you bought TWO insanely expensive recorders), and probably not being able to submit the tapes to anyone for consideration/publishing still would have doomed it.

@robin_holden

4 жыл бұрын

GOD I hated using ADATs! If you wanted to use more than one machine, they would never sync up properly once they got warm. Forget trying to punch in on the 3rd machine, you’d be lucky if they locked in with each other by the 2nd chorus! Always had to make a sub-mix down to the last two tracks. Some great albums were made on them though!

@rodrigodelprat

4 жыл бұрын

And in another quirk of history, ADAT's I/O format remains the standard protocol for digital multitrack interoperability, even though the physical tape format itself is essentially obsolete.

24:30 I've seen VHS for digital storage in the 90s (LGR did a review for Danmere Backer a while ago) but never seen this kind of PCM machine like this before. It's a really cool product but it's too ahead of its time. (And wrong customers too, I guess.) Thanks for the video and congratulation for 1M subscribers. I can't wait to see the muppet unboxing your gold button soon. (But, please, don't be too rough like the blower one)

@meetoo594

4 жыл бұрын

I had an add-on for my Amiga that connected a video recorder to the computer for backup storage. It wasnt by Danmere but was pretty much the same system. It actually worked flawlessly, never had a problem with it apart from the slow speed. You could fit an almost unheard of amount of data on a tape compared to the hard disks of the time (over 500mb on a 3 hour tape iirc).

@lutello3012

4 жыл бұрын

I want that damn Danmere Backer! Software equivelent might be possible but a huge pain in the ass.

@Tomsonic41

4 жыл бұрын

@@meetoo594 I saw an add-on card for PC that had a composite video output, and allowed you to back up your entire system to a VHS tape in case of disaster. Always curious to see what the picture recorded on the tape looked like; probably similar to this.

@meetoo594

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tomsonic41 That would be the Danmere vhs Backer, Clint at LGR has a great video on it including what the output looks like on a TV.

@anthonyblore1651

4 жыл бұрын

I had a system for the Amiga which allowed you to backup floppies to VHS. It was hit and miss if you didn't use specific brands of tape.

And thank you so very very much for providing us countless hours of amazing video footage (and commentary!) of our beloved electronic gadgets from yesteryear :)

Congrats on hitting the 1 million! What better way to celebrate than with an informative video about a piece of very rare HiFi tech!

I think the fact that it seems like it can change where it takes it digital clock source from is quite interesting too.

@xboxlive6

4 жыл бұрын

Future proofing for products that never existed.

@MrEdrftgyuji

4 жыл бұрын

I think that may be the clock for synchronising the digital signal.

@erlendse

4 жыл бұрын

True, but where would you input the clock? For me it looks like it can only be taken from the digital input, so can you lock recording to digital input? or analog recording use clock from digital input? or playback based on digital input clock? Would simplify mixing on whatever mixer that use the composite video digital audio?

@xboxlive6

4 жыл бұрын

@@erlendse Analog does not need a clock signal. It would be for using an internally generated word clock or to reclock the input. Which as this is composite video and not AES/EBU, it's combining two almost anachronistic technologies.

@T2D.SteveArcs

4 жыл бұрын

Off topic of this vid but you could use an audio amplifier output to drive secondary of a transformer as a frequency converter just feed in a sinewave from sig gen app set 60 hz or ?? And take hv from pri into yank device lol i can make a vid if your intersted m8 .. Steve you want 120 to 50v ish or any combo 120 0 120 to 25 0 25 or ?? I could make you a transformer for this for next to nothing

Congratulations on 1M subscribers...I've been watching, and anticipating, new videos from you for about four years now, and it's always a worthwhile treat. Great job.

Congratulations on a million Matt! Well deserved.

I've been an AV tech for 30 years and you've shown me the sight of sound today! Thank you my friend. X

Amazing device, it looks so modern, lovely display too. Imagine if they build one around 1990 with less metal and cheaper components for around the price of a VCR!

I'm kind of shocked I've never heard of this.

@robertclemente8548

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@epithalamia

4 жыл бұрын

i love your channel kenny!!

@zarrg5611

4 жыл бұрын

Titans collide!

@aegisofhonor

4 жыл бұрын

it's really really rare, I can only find 3 examples of them selling anywhere in the world over the last year to give you an idea of how uncommon they are. And because it's so complicated to work on, any malfunction, you're going to have a really hard time fixing this disaster of a repair project. I am kind of shocked that Techmoan as able to find one in fully working order that wasn't insanely expensive.

@ssks1979

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, same for me. I was in my early 20's, very interested in stereo equipment but this at its price was obviously beyond any HiFi dreams of mine. Thank you for finding one!

Congrats on 1M subscribers from HK! Great video and sharing of good old times with us. Thank You!

You're the man! Well deserved, & I found your outro very touching. Congrats!

Absolutely amazing, you've blown my mind with this one. I want that machine SO bad. And to take it apart! Congrats on the million! Definitely deserved :D

The Techmoan Rule: If it doesn’t have a visualiser or a VU meter its not worth it.

@vxidastronaut

4 жыл бұрын

"whoops I bought another visualizer" Everybody take a shot for the drinking game

@fargeeks

4 жыл бұрын

Everything he reviews is everything i have never ever heard of, and i was born in 87

@tarmaque

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah? Explain the wire recorder then. (That thing is so cool, I honestly want one. I saw one you eBay a while back for under $100 and only force of will kept me from buying it.)

@TreyWait

4 жыл бұрын

I was surprised he wasn't salivating at the giant rack mount vu meter in the catalog he referenced. That thing was enormous.

@therealpbristow

4 жыл бұрын

Le LLuc : And so say we all! =:o}

I grew up in the 90s recording stuff to cassette and even now in 2022 I'm impressed by this device! Being able to set markers is a game changer!

Congrats, sir. My favorite retro tech reviewer. Appreciate you! Cool 14-bit outro...

Congratulations on reaching 1m subscribers mate! I've been enjoying your contents for quite a few years, some videos I watch again every now and then and yet the enthusiasm that you have and the how informative and interesting your contents are make it worthwhile. Appreciate your time and effort immensely, and wish you the best. 👏😇

Congrats on breaking the 1 million wall! I have to say, this my favorite video from you ever. I was completely unaware that the VHS (standard) format ever had a beast like this. You've truly captured an origin story for the eventual S-VHS ADAT multi-track machines that a, not insignificant, number of recording studios and home artists used in the 90's. ADAT XT was 18bit, then the XT20 was, of course, 20 bit. Thanks a million for this one!

I recorded audio onto my VHS HiFi with great results from 1988 But i had no idea the machines were even made in 1981 What a Superb piece of equipment

congrats for the million !!! you've more than earned it with your hard work. thank you for the joy and amazement, the fun and nostalgia, the knowledge . . . and the puppets!!!! take care!

I know it's a bit late to say this but congrats for 1 Million! This channel got me into retro and hifi tech and I've been a subscriber for years since then. Thanks Matt. ♥

DCC came out 10 years later. The progress of digital audio during the 80's was swift.

@AaronSmart.online

4 жыл бұрын

But unfortunately, digital audio tapes were still something that most consumers didn't want

@FatNorthernBigot

4 жыл бұрын

@B3ro1080 That's kinda my point. The early 80's computers couldn't handle compression algorithms.

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

Digital audio tape was great for us musicians before cd writing became practical and reliable

@kevinh96

4 жыл бұрын

@@AaronSmart.online Indeed but it didn't help that DAT was delayed by court proceedings brought by the RIAA and then hampered by them insisting on the inclusion of a copy management system. That delayed the products launched by a couple of years and undoubtedly added to the costs when it eventually did launch.

I love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to create and post for posterity!

Huge video sir! Thank you for the effort on showing us such interesting device. And congrats on the 1e6 subs.