Amongst the things you could always count on - there was death, taxes and a Bose® Wave® advert in the back of your Sunday magazine.
However while death might edge ever closer and taxes ever higher, the Bose® like so many other tech perennials, quietly waved® its final farewell a few yea...
2024-08-26 17:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This month’s video oddcast without the video.
If you prefer the video - you'll find it in the next post.
2024-08-17 10:19:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Not too much has happened this month - so here’s an hour-long video all about it.
There’s also an audio-only version of this available under a separate post.
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2024-08-17 10:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the eagle eye of a patron I’m taking a look at an audio tape cartridge you’ve likely never seen before, I certainly hadn’t. It’s a neat little format…albeit one that now suffers from a few age related issues.
Thanks to Alucard for spotting this one and for taking the tim...
2024-08-13 18:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My favourite gadget of August 2024 (so far) - Personal Air Conditioning.
A quick video about a surprisingly effective device.
Enjoy the rest of the week. Take care.
2024-08-06 20:41:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember my CD Shaver video about a device designed to separate the obsessive audiophile from their money. That video amassed 1.7 million views so naturally this seemed like a product category that might warrant another video. I moved on to take a look at a CD Demagnetiser. That video has 488K vi...
2024-08-02 17:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it’.
This Ferris Bueller quote comes to mind whenever I discover that tech I've taken for granted has vanished while I wasn't paying attention. This was very nearly the case when I went sh...
It’s well over a year since I kicked off my ‘Interesting Things In Cases’ series - so it seems it’s high time I made a second episode.
This was the first time I’ve got to use ...
2024-07-16 20:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s my July 2024 Patreon update. I haven’t uploaded an audio-only version this time as a good proportion of this one is reliant on the accompanying visuals.
It’s a long one so be sure to utilise the chapters if you want to skip a section.
The subject matter of this video will be familiar to anyone who saw the last Patreon update.
Since then though I’ve been on, and returned from, a seven night Norwegian fjord cruise on which I got to test the effectiveness (or otherwise) of these and I can now report back with my findings....
2024-07-06 08:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to get one last video out before my break so as not to have a two week gap - and here it is.
A quick look at an unusual looking portable rechargeable digital TV, DAB radio and media player. A mostly pointless device in the age of smart devices with wireless data, h...
2024-06-23 09:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
You may recall that I was struggling to get a video finished - well finally here it is. My issue wasn’t with trying to assemble a brilliant, complicated video, it was more trying to salvage something (anything) from bad luck and bad ideas.
If you enjoy disappointment, combined with medioc...
2024-06-18 16:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Compared to the shambles of my incomplete yet still pending video, this one was a breeze to put together. Everything just seemed to fall into place, including the weather.
A bit of behind the scenes info - this is the only video I’ve shot entirely with a DJI Pocket 3. This was used ...
2024-06-13 19:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post…and any inconvenience it may cause.
Just a quick note to let you know that the video I was planning to have ready by now didn’t work out. That’s the nature of weird old tech - sometimes it lets you down. Then my idea to incorporate the footage I’d shot into another video also...
2024-06-10 14:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I’m finally going to play a Stereo Tefi cart - and you’ll get to hear it too (with a few caveats). A repair, a demo, some trivia and a bit of music, enjoy.
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/nKGY0_xC3co...
2024-06-01 11:41:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Very occasionally a video I make will have a positive impact beyond just providing a few minutes of ‘entertainment’. The Tefifon video(s) are an example. Today things come full circle as I get to share information as well as demonstrate a rare Tefi accessory provided to me by a chap called Ma...
2024-05-22 18:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been a week of enforced commitments to anything and everything besides making videos. So on a sunny Friday afternoon I took the opportunity to go for a walk and record a video just for Patrons about what’s been going on this month.
A bit of behind the scenes. I tend to use two ...
2024-05-12 09:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A short video this week - but it’s more than enough time to cover this simple gadget I’ve been testing…The Woojer.
For one reason and another I’ve had limited days available for...
2024-05-05 18:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In this conclusion to the award winning and critically acclaimed Sports Walkman video trilogy - I attempt to repair my WM-FS555 S2 personal stereo cassette player. An edge of your seat thriller you won’t want to miss.
It’s mostly a recap this time.
Unfortunately the audio level is too hot throughout the majority of this one. I was trying a recording setup I haven’t used together before. It was only once I’d finished that I discovered that both the mics and receiver had separate gain s...
2024-04-23 16:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s mostly a recap this time, but with added scenery.
Unfortunately the audio level is too hot throughout the majority of the video. I was trying a camera and mic combo I haven’t u...
2024-04-23 16:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you remember the Sony Sports S2 range from the early to mid 2000s? I'm not sure I do.
It’s odd how such a wide range of products completely passed me by at the time. I have to assume that most, if not all of these were never sold in the UK. Either that or it was my aversion to anything...
2024-04-21 17:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A lightweight video prompted by a slew of confidently incorrect corrections.
Shooting this one got me out of the house, which offers a welcome change of scenery for the viewer so it’s not a complete waste of time.
In this video I finally get to take a look at the Wheel 2 record player from Miniot.
This was the experience that put an end to me backing any more Kickstarter campaigns.
I’d in...
2024-04-07 15:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s unfortunately become quite a rare occurrence where I’m impressed by a new device. Bucking the trend though, this week I bought something inexpensive to do a simple job, on the off chance that it could work… and it ended up working out so well that I just had to make a video about it. 2024-04-03 17:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer to my present day AV needs, lie only in Sony’s past.
In this video I share my surround sound headphone saga. All 9.1 channels of it.
This has really been one of ...
2024-03-26 19:12:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Better late than never here’s a video about AtGames 4K virtual pinball table. After a mammoth shoot and a bum-numbing, multi-day and night editing job, I think this one is just about ready to share with you, so here’s a link:
Just a update to say that the next video will take me a few more days to finish.
I started the week by recording a retro product review, but that needed to be put on hold while waiting for a replacement to arrive from Japan.
Then m...
2024-03-16 00:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
One final video at the end of the week, featuring everyone’s favourite pastime.
Have a good week/end. Take care.
2024-03-08 18:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post