Techmoan

The struggle to play Philips' giant cassette (2021x27)

Air date: Jun 19, 2021

I want to show you a type of Philips music cassette you most likely haven’t seen before. I was very fortunate to get one…but it turned out that was the easy part. Getting its 1970s player to work took a lot more effort. 00:00 Backstory 03:14 The player 06:40 Giving it a go 09:29 Inside the cassette 11:30 Inside the machine 12:45 The Repair starts 20:18 A look at the older machine 23:27 Back to the repair 27:15 The result 27:55 Summary 32:23 Groovy credits UPDATES 1) Turns out that this system was known as Philips 'Functional Music' - What a fun name. 2) The symbol on the back showing a box with an arrow is the sign for ‘Remote’ not ‘Output’. 3) The tape speed is 1 7/8ips 4) If playback of the tape reels is attempted on a R2R machine only two of the tracks like up with the heads on a 1/4 track machine