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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...