Techmoan

Here’s a format that I either missed or I forgot about - I suspect it’s the former, but I can’t remember.

Which was the smallest personal stereo Compact Cassette player? A video about very little.

Revisiting the 3M Cantata 700 carts with a newer and hopefully better player.

The Paulthings Mixxtape® is a modern take on a cassette that plays MP3s...but is it any use?

A look at the only Bang & Olufsen battery powered portable stereo radio cassette recorder - the Beosystem 10. It cost way more than a regular portable, was it worth it?

A fortuitous purchase from 1985 comes back to the future to be reassessed against its peers.

Its a video of a teardown of a card radio - as featured in this previous video

The internal volume of the Beosystem 10 portable stereo is severely limited by its speakers - apparently this limitation doesn't apply to external speakers - I tested this out with some customised refurb B&O CX50 speakers.

The Sony NT-2 is an outdated device from a very different era - but one that deserves to be celebrated and remembered for what the incredibly skilful Sony engineers achieved back in the mid 1990s.

An interesting looking device, but things didn't quite work out with this one.

Buying Brand New In Box is no guarantee that the item is going to work once its out of that box. Meet Schrödinger's stereo.

It not only looks authentic to the original series prop, it does stuff too.

A video where I talk (and talk) about my previous home cinema mistakes and why after a long absence I'm now giving home theatre projectors and screens another go..

A fully-auto readjusting projector is a complete game changer. It’s years since I tried a new projector and it turns out that now they’re now way smarter and far more flexible. In this video I’m showing how the Anker Nebula Cosmos 4K SE has managed to reignite my stow-away Home Cinema dreams.

TRMNL is a WiFi connected e-ink display that might display the things you need to know at a glance, but then again it might not.

Radios with digital Nixie tube frequency displays were just a rarity from the past - until now. The new Retio Nixie radio / clock / bluetooth speaker has arrived. It's time I take a look and a listen after a looong wait.

This £133 projector seemed too good to be true. It’s received 98% 5 star reviews on Amazon UK (the remaining 2% were 4 stars). Naturally I had to try one out for myself.

I wanted to like this because of its unusual exposed CD design, however.....

I bought a new motorised ALR Tab-Tensioned projector screen from Vividstorm - It seems I made a rather expensive mistake, but I’ve got to make this work because I can’t send it back.

The PS-FL99 was Sony’s 1983 attempt to update the vinyl record player for the digital age. In this video I try to get one working properly so I can demonstrate its features, including one which might be unique on a record player with a stylus… unless of course you know differently.

Does issuing films on 'Collectors Edition' VHS in 2025 make sense? Probably not, but that didn't stop me from buying one and breaking out some old tech.

The Audio Technica Sound Burger record player has a new rival. See what makes this one better and what still needs work.

If you want a video music visualiser in a box you're not exactly spoilt for choice. So far I've only found this one.

The 'Medion' 'Aiwa' 'Orion' 'Roxel' CD Radio Cassette Boombox. Is it terrible or just mediocre? Perhaps some are clinging to hope of this being 'good'. There's only one way to find out. Oh and apparently the design owes more than a little to the Sharp GF-575 (Thanks to Raffaele on Patreon for pointing this out).

A box that booms to its own beat. The Panasonic SY-PA100 has a carrying handle but doesn't run off batteries and does more than you might expect.

A demonstration of the Reflection Frame. An offline colour e-ink photo frame.

In this follow up video, I attempt to get at least one of my 'Personal PA systems' fully functional.

In this video I attempt to fix a common MiniDisc drive fault on Sony CMT-C5 CD Micro HiFi...but discover a potential show-stopper for this and all vintage Sony slot-loading CD micro HiFi systems.

This device utilises discs to play music - but the discs aren't the music format.

In 1980 Sony made a sync connector cable/box. Here's my video about it.

A look at the Mister Thin family of radios.