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14 february
16h17
Greetings from Japan Plus my A V setup here
I’m in Japan I’m staying at a rental house for the moment, and in this video I talk a little bit about the experience in general and what’s coming up...
12 december
10h01
Moving to Japan is weird and stressful.
I’m in the middle of a move from the United States to Japan. It’s the reason why I haven’t posted much of anything lately. I thought I may as well...
08 september
00h23
Channel update - big news Major changes to come.
It’s been a while since I did a general channel update but there is definitely stuff happening right now that warrants one. Not much more of an...
24 july
06h03
CD player listening test results CAN you hear the difference?
In my previous video, I asked the question of whether you can even hear the difference between different CD players. Many people swear they can just...
08 july
00h46
Can you hear the difference between CD players? Let’s test it
NOTE: The poll has ended, but a results video is now up You can still watch the video and try the test yourself, then view the results at the link...
04 june
00h47
A vintage CD player so nice, I bought it twice
Vinyl and even cassettes have had their day; now it’s the compact disc having its own revival. Despite that, I think we’ve lost the plot in the 2020...
22 may
01h32
Vintage 1970s Sony Tape Deck Repair Part 2
This is part 2 of my quest to turn my Sony TC-K96R cassette deck, the most broken piece of audio equipment I’ve yet encountered, into something I can...
29 april
07h17
Teardown and (very) minor repair of a Pioneer Elite PDM-900’Reference’ CD changer from 1988
The CD revival is in full swing, and I’m as caught up in it as anybody. I bought myself a player I’d always wanted back in the 80’s, and of course it...
06 april
03h40
Repairing and restoring a vintage 1970s Sony cassette deck, part 1
It’s time to tackle a project I’ve been building towards for years - repairing and restoring my Sony TC-K96R cassette deck. This was a deck released...
13 january
08h29
A leisurely stroll through my entire A V setup
If you like to hear me talk, have I got the video for you For 55 minutes, watch and listen as I go through the basics on every audio and video...
16 november
00h34
The MiniDisc Video
Let’s look at the history of MiniDisc, repair my broken player, then do some tests on the format and its ATRAC compression scheme. This is probably...
23 june
00h17
What was the last IBM ThinkPad?
The ThinkPad line of business and prosumer laptops began under IBM in 1992 and has been under Lenovo’s umbrella since 2005. But that takeover wasn’t...
26 march
01h01
Revisit, Recap and Rebuild of my capacitor-plagued aluminum retro gaming PC tower
Seven( ) years ago, I tore down and jokingly "retired" my original gaming PC - a home-built aluminum monster that I put together in 2002...
25 january
07h17
Repairing a Sony cassette Walkman (or trying to)
Watch as I attempt (and mostly fail) to restore two different Sony cassette Walkman models. A lot of things went wrong in this video, including the...
31 august
05h17
Compaq 486 PC exploration, restoration and upgrade - Part 1 REUPLOAD
Note: This is a reupload due to a copyright strike on the previous version of this video. There is no way to simply replace the video in that case so...