The BIGGEST used HiFi bargains might be the SMALLEST

okay i'd like to start this video with an assumption let's assume that you're interested in playing your music from physical media yeah i know it's a crazy idea but let's just run with it so the three formats that you're interested in playing are the cd the compact cassette and the mini disk we'll just forget about vinyl for this equation but we can bring it back in later on in the story so those three formats are what we're interested in playing now if you were starting from scratch you've got nothing at all at the moment and yet you want to be able to play these formats for whatever reason i know a bit of a weird assumption but let's just start from there somebody's got in touch with me and says i want to play these what should i get well here's the answer i wouldn't recommend somebody goes and get themselves a big old hi-fi setup with all separate components most people don't have the room for one of those in the house they don't really want to give over that amount of room to them and quite often they're really quite expensive as well especially if you're dealing with proper separate components but i mean that's what i've done i've got a big old high five thing in the lounge i love it and i've picked all the components very carefully but for your average person a bit too much hassle to be honest for most people so let's just assume that the old big old hi-fi things out of the equation so what's left well you might be thinking boom boxes but i'll put these here as a bit of a red herring because you won't be able to get a boom box on the market nowadays new that can play minidisc and a lot of them could never play in the first place i mean this thing here this more recent one this is just a cassette radio so we can put that to one side now this one can play cd and radio and cassette i guess that's not brilliant but it's all right uh but no mini disc in here in fact to try and get a mini disc in a boom box it's quite tricky there weren't that many released in the uk that had a cassette and a mini disc sometimes you might just get the mini disc because they've kind of swapped one component out for the other but to get all three is quite rare especially in the uk you're more likely to find them in japan but even there they kind of dump the cassette usually when they put a mini disk in stuff there are some out there i'm not saying there aren't there are some with all three things pretty hard to get hold off and quite expensive as well now let's just say we're on a budget as well so we're on this thing where we don't really have much room and we've got a small budget what are we going to get well here is my answer this is what i got for 76 pounds from ebay that does those three things and more besides that's a nice reveal one too i don't know it might be a bit tacky but anyway here it is it's a mini system yeah mini s don't even say it right i did a mini system not midi mini system yeah uh i'll talk more about it in a moment but yeah i think this is perhaps where the best bargains lie in used hi-fi at the moment i'll explain why okay so here's what i've got it's a sony cmt cp 505 md the md part of that indicates it's got a minidisc recorder which is here but in addition to that there's a cd player an am fm tuner and in the top we've got a cassette deck now i just want to look a little bit closer at those because there's a couple of nice features in here the cd player is cd text compatible so that means if the information is present on the cd the track titles would display on the lcd screen at the top and if you were to record a cd onto a mini disk the track titles would be carried across and as far as the mini disc component goes you'll see here it's mdlp compatible and also uses a track type s of course a track is the encoding and decoding technology that was used for minidiscs type s was the last revision of these so this is as up-to-date as mididis recorders get now type s is actually a technology that was used to improve the decoding for lp2 and lp4 the long play recordings now whilst it doesn't have a dab radio tuner the radio is compatible with rds the radio data system and that means that most stations on fm should display their name and some will display other information as well now by the time this came out in 2002 the cassette tape was well past its heyday sony have included a cassette recorder on here but i think it's more of an afterthought than the other components it's really a convenience feature for playing back your existing tapes you can make recordings on it though if you want but i think they were really intending you to make your recordings onto the minidisc section whether that was from a cd the radio and external source or even copying your tapes across the minidisc it's a pretty bare bones tape mechanism but it does have auto reverse now by no means am i saying that this is a high quality device i'm just saying that it's pretty good value for money for what you get now this one is a little bit more at market than some though because they quite often have plastic speakers whereas this has proper wood ones you notice that there's a bit of a stain i don't know if you can see that on this front cover here a bit mucky overall so i think if i was using this i'd take those off those look quite nice underneath i say they look nice though there's a lot of dust in here and that is one of the big issues with this i'm going to have to do quite a bit of cleaning i don't really want to play any tapes in it until i've cleaned that mechanism i'll show you why in a moment but let me just show you the dust on here yeah i think this has been in a house with pets quite a lot of hairs here i mean nothing you can't clean off at least nobody's broken the speakers so i should just be able to wipe all that stuff off if we look at the side of the machine itself you'll see that these separate sections here of course they're fully no one it was just a nod to the past where you had separate components on some mini systems this is just one big unit here metal sides on it but they've still got the lines down there notice sort of separating out the different sections which is all just a nonsense really let's just look around the back here okay starting at the top antenna inputs spring clip terminals under coax below there rca stereo line level input so you could plug some external device into here to listen to it over your hi-fi now what kind of thing might you want to plug into there i don't know it's got most of the things in here that you need but perhaps a record player and if you were going to plug a record player into here make sure it outputs at line level you'd need either an external phono preamp on that record player or a built-in phono stage to bring it up to line level now below there the speaker connectors a little bit unusual these i'm not sure if this is a proprietary sony design but i haven't seen those around very often so if you wanted to use your own speakers with these you'd have to find some of those to plug into the back at the top here we've got an optical digital input which would generally be used for recording something onto the minidisc and keeping it in the digital domain all the way through the chain and then below there we've got a pc link socket now i'm not really going to go into that in this video it's something i plan to cover in the future now at the bottom we've got this fan here a little bit concerned that this thing might be full of hair given what the speakers look like but also what the cassette deck looks like so let's just take a look at that yeah it's so bad in here i don't even want to play a cassette in it until i've cleaned it just look at the amount of dust i don't know how that's possible with a closed lid but it is and it's the hairs that really concern me there's so many hairs back here yeah there you go there's more hair in here than there is on the top of my head but i don't really want to just try and clean it all out like this i think i could do it taking the thing apart just in case there's a lot more inside now let's see what else is working i'm going to eject the cd player here now one thing i've noticed with this without a cd when he first boots up it makes a little bit of a nasty sound so i'm hoping that's not a problem i don't know if you could hear that there but maybe that's something i can sort out if we open it up as well it might just need a bit of grease on it [Music] gotta say i'm really quite happy with the sound quality there and i notice we've got a button here labeled dsg now i remember dsg as being the dixon store group but i think it probably is a a base enhancer so we'll switch that on we'll give it another [Laughter] [Music] go well based on my time spent with this so far i'm more than happy with the sound quality i think it's a rich well-rounded sound when you put that dsg mode on you get more bass you can feel it in the air but it still doesn't really overpower the trebles [Music] let's put a minidisc in here now minidists are a little bit temperamental sometimes in old devices and people will say things are working even when the mini disk isn't because they just don't have one to test it so let's give it a go oh we've got the title coming up here let's have a listen oh yeah that's nice yeah again no problem with the mini disc player there i don't want to put a tape in this though until i've cleaned it so i think what we need to do at this point is stop turn off the power and open the case up and have a look inside right now here's the cassette deck section from the top these side parts i thought they'd just pull off they're a slide off or something but they seem to be hooked underneath so i might as well just leave them on because it's this thing that i'm interested in i'll be honest i wouldn't have gone as far as taking this apart if i just needed to clean the cassette deck i would have just blown some air into there or cleaned it with q-tips but i really want to be able to get to the cd mechanism to see what that clicking is so hopefully i'll be able to get to that in a bit but at the moment we'll just deal with this and i think what i need to do is just to lift this out to the chassis which will give me a better look at it there you go not attached to anything there really to give that a good clean let's just have a closer look at it now back in the day i'm quite sure sony considered this to be a pretty budget cassette deck not the kind of thing they put in their high-end cassette recorders they're separate just something for a mini system like this but still it's a lot better than anything you could get nowadays we've got a mabuchi motor in here a genuine one not a knockoff as well got lots of stickers on to prove where it came from the modern motors they don't tend to have any kind of stickers on them which is a bit of a sign that something is a foot now around on this side you can see it's quite a complicated setup but uh nicely made a lot of metal in here where nowadays a lot of this would be plastic auto reverse head down here at the bottom so that just spins around and uh pinch roller of course either side because the tape moves in either direction and down here a proper erase head not a permanent magnet but one that's got power going up to it an electromagnet but god that is a mess it's a bit bright for this let me just turn the brightness down on the camera here can you see how awful that is it's uh it's pretty disgusting down there i thought i might as well clean the tape head while i'm here but there's absolutely nothing on it at all it looks like this mechanism has seen very little use perhaps it's just played a handful of cassettes over the years now along the top of this mechanism we've got the sensors either side here that check the right protect not status and then this one in the middle that checks whether or not the cassette is actually present at all now if it could record onto metal tape there'd be another sensor here to detect the notches on that so the fact it doesn't have one of those means you're not really supposed to record onto metal tapes with this it also doesn't have a sensor for type 2 tapes either so yeah kind of basic but one thing i will mention the fact it has a right protect notch sensor on either side means that it's able to record in either direction whichever way the tape's going and that's because at the bottom here we've got the head but also next to that that tiny thing there that is the erase magnet and that flips around on this part here with the head at the same time so that means it the erase head is before the play head or record head irrespective of the direction that it's travelling right so let's just slot this back in here again and it fits in there really easily just four screws to go in and we salted other than the ribbon cable i'll have to attach at the end when i put this lid back on right so i'll pop that to one side and hopefully it's going to be as easy to get to this cd mechanism but looking at it it doesn't seem that obvious at the moment what i'm supposed to do i think i probably need to take the front off i suppose i could live with a clicky cd drive but since i'm in here might as well see if i can get to it so there's a screw on the side of this front section which i think if i remove those hopefully this should come off and then maybe that will give me the access i need to the cd which is down at the bottom the mini disc would be pretty easy to get to it's just this unit here at the top and i could just take the screws out and lift that out but beyond there there's like a circuit board and this plastic cradle type thing so it gets a little bit complicated but just try not to break it i think there's a couple more screws on the bottom here so i'll take these out as well because all the screws i've taken out so far are different sizes to one another which is great now the front of this is also held on from the inside with two screws there's one that i've managed to take out there which wasn't too difficult but the other one is down there at the front and it's very difficult to get my hand out there i'm gonna have to find a kind of right angle screwdriver or something because i need to be able to take that screw out but i just need something that kind of fits down here because i can't get to that side of it either so let me have a look through the toolbox i finally think it's going to be a case of snake driver to the rescue i bought this thing years ago and it was supposed to be able to unscrew things that you can't only get to and i've never found it to be of any use but i think today is the first time it's actually going to do something yeah there we go there comes the screw the problem with it is normally it doesn't bend enough but it bends just enough for this so that's the screw out of the front there now let's see if we could take the front off yeah i really did want to unplug this but here we go i have to do it there's there's no other i could leave it supposed right that's that ah there we go that gives us access right what can we see unfortunately i haven't got the access i want because i'd need to be able to plug it in and have it all eject so i could look at the mechanism properly but you can't have it all connected once you've got the front off so it's a bit of a catch 22 but i think i've got an idea what might be making the noise i don't know if you can see this wheel here it seems to catch ever so slightly on the top and i wonder if it's something that's been affected by heat it's kind of warped but uh i've tried to straighten it out but it is plastic so if it was metal i might have more chance but as it stands i've got it clearing the plastic a little bit more now it was rubbing against it before whether or not that does anything we'll find out oh perhaps i've just broken the whole thing who knows but you know what i'm going to give up now i'm going to put the front back on this after i've blown it out with a bit of air just to make sure there's no hair stuck in any of this when i look around the inside of this it makes me realize in a way how much has been lost over the last 20 years when it comes to affordable consumer electronics it's built in china it says on the back there made in china at least that part of it is i'm sure quite a few parts but nowadays it tends to be that because they want to sell things a really low price they're using low quality components whereas in this even though it was built to fit within a certain price range you can see that they've used the best quality things that they could while still being able to make a profit on it right final screw going in and hopefully i'll have to take these out again in a moment let's find out let's plug the speakers back in and see if it does anything now i do worry about those ribbon cables whether or not i got them in properly i haven't plugged it in yet this is live this is well it's not live it's recorded into let me just get it plugged in and the power switched on see if we get a puff of smoke cd still making a noise brilliant okay is it as bad as before it's exactly the same yeah so that's just an issue it is that piece of plastic though i know now that it isn't something that's breaking it's not something that needs lubricating it's just a piece of plastic that kind of spins around and gets stuck in the wrong part and i think this has probably been placed on something maybe that was warm or been in a very warm room and that piece of plastic has kind of bent up it's like a flower but the petals on it seem to have bent up just enough to catch the top it has to be perfectly flat but the thing i really want to try out is this tape deck so let's put a cassette in here [Music] yeah me tape sound just fine played on this and it might be my age but i just can't hear the hiss maybe it's got some kind of digital noise reduction technology or something but uh sounds fine to me for takes with no dolby on them and no dolby decoding on the device either oh and the auto reverse is working fine as well so if you wanted to play your old tapes back we could do far worse than something like this but talking of dolby i wonder what this is referring to on the back it says u.s and foreign patents licensed from dolby laboratories and so that nobody complains u.s and foreign patents licensed from dolby laboratories but whichever way you say i wonder what those patents or patents are no idea nothing to do with dolby noise reduction i think there's no mention of it anywhere and you can't switch it on or off so something else now looking in the manual at the wow and flutter specs at the bottom here you can see 0.15 plus and minus or 0.1 percent w rms nab or plus and minus 0.2 percent so yeah there's different ways of measuring these things i think this is one on all the graph plus or minus 0.15 so not the best in the world but let's press play on the tape and see what it gets so we'll start off by looking at the display on the right that's the wow and flutter it's showing quite low down there so we'll bring the scale up so i'm using 0.3 percent so we're looking at the bottom row there 0.3 0.2 0.1 it's hanging around 0.15 just like it's supposed to do so that's within the specs on the left here the speed it's a little bit fast but not much it's running around about 0.35 fast so you'd be perfectly happy listening to a cassette on this and i should mention that i'm really happy with the frequency response of this cassette deck in the manual it states it goes from 50 hertz up to 13 000 with a plus or minus three decibels i wanted to check this out for myself so i played a wav file of a sine wave sweep from our digital music player in through the optical input on the back of the hi-fi recorded it onto tape played that back and it managed to light up all the bars from one end to the other now you'll remember perhaps when i've demoed some other take decks they only light up the middle ones this did the whole lot it shows it's got a better frequency response even than what it mentions in the manual mini hifi systems like this were very popular in the uk or at least in my experience they were i mean there's two things that i'm using to point to that and the first one is that there's always loads of them second hand for sale on ebay but the second thing is that there was a point when everyone's house that i visited everyone that i knew all the relatives everyone else they all had a mini hi-fi system in the corner of the room and for most of those people it was the last hi-fi they had they might have had earlier things music centers and stack systems and things but they all work their way down to something like this and then eventually in most people's houses these disappeared as well and they might just be left there with perhaps a bluetooth speaker i don't if you've ever seen the 1960 film the time machine but there's that scene when he's looking at the shot window and there's the mannequin and the clothes on it are changing as fashions progress over the uh decades it all moves in fast forward if you were to do a similar thing with a uk lounge a living room and show that moving through time well of course we'd start off with like a radio which would be the focal point of the room and then the television comes in so that gets shoved over but then that becomes a and then the radiogram becomes well a music center kind of big long flat thing and then the music sensor becomes like a stack system and then the stack system then moves down to like a midi system and then that becomes a mini system and then finally puff it's all gone there's nothing left and that is pretty much what i've seen over the course of my life not going all the way back to the radio stuff but i remember when the music system was like the big thing just after the grammar phone i've seen all these things kind of grow and then get smaller and disappear in most people's houses but yeah based upon my experience the mini system was very popular in the uk oh and i better add in quickly here that i'm talking about your average person there not hi-fi enthusiasts not the kind of person with bi-wired speakers and uh 2000 pound amplifier whether that's weight or value and the record cleaners all that kind of stuff though there's always these enthusiasts they kind of outliers as far as these things go i'm not talking about that i'll talk about just your average member of the public my mother-in-law for example or my brother they would fall into this category of someone that would have one of these in the corner of the room back in the early 2000s but if you went to their house nowadays there's nothing there like this probably over a year ago now somebody sent me this minidisc it's reflectivity and the album or ep is called you can't even get lost in this town anymore now the reason i'm using this is because it's got some nice acoustic guitar stuff on it so you'll be able to hear whether or not there's any tape piss when i record it across to the tape so first off just have a listen to the minidisc and then we'll have a listen to the tapes version of the same track [Music] [Applause] [Music] now i'd just like to copy this compact disk across to a mini disk and the reason for that is because i want to see whether or not it copies at four times speed because the instructions were a little bit vague with regard to that and whether or not it brings with it the cd text information because again it didn't quite specify that but the cd is 68 minutes in length so if it records at four times speed which it should do that will only take 17 minutes to copy let's find out now while i unwrap this mini disc i'll just mention on the screen here you might see there's a picture of a cd and a cassette and that means that there's one of each of those present in the machine at the moment so once i put this mini disc in as well you'll see a mini disc symbol appear there i think that's a nice little touch at least you know what's inside the machine without pressing eject because you can't see otherwise you can just about make out the cassette in the top but it's not very clear now there's a couple of options to pick for the minidisc recording we could choose either lp2 or lp4 long play modes mono for even longer recording time or stereo which is what i'm going to pick and then the synchro options we can do well cd to minidisc cd to tape tape to minidisc mini disk to tape both of those recording at the same time or high speed that's what i'm selecting and then it gets itself ready that's the cd player spinning up just checking that i can do a high speed recording of this one sometimes cds don't let you do that because there's too many errors on them it's got to be a good quality cd but this one's showing fine so press start so the start is enter start so just press this now and there we go we're recording across and look at the speed of it going there you can see that this is doing high speed recording full times speed get a nice little symbol there cd to md the little arrow on there points to the left so it'll only be about 70 minutes or so now so i might as well just go and have a coffee and then when i come back we'll see if this minidisc has brought the text information along with it it should do but we'll find out now it's nearly finished copying across but i just wanted to mention something about this remote control just before it finishes you'll need the remote if you plan on getting some kind of device like this more likely than not not all the features on the remote will be included on the device there's a menu button on here i used earlier on when i wanted to erase a mini disk you have to get into a menu and choose an option there's no menu button on this thing so unless you've got the remote you wouldn't be able to do that and there's other things like a direct track access by pressing a button naming things you've got shortcut buttons on here and there's a few other things you will need the remote for so yeah if you get hold of one of these try and get the remote for it this remote i had to buy separately it's quite yellowed but it doesn't really matter it's uh more about what it does than what it looks like it did cost me about 20 pounds though so it was a considerable percentage of the overall value of one of these things so it's better off if someone's bundling the remote with it but overall still this whole thing cost me less than 100 pounds including the remote control but yeah there's our cd copied across to a mini disk so let's just move this out of the way and let's press play on the minidisc and see if the track names come up there we go we've got the text coming across that's the track name now one thing i want to mention is if you wanted to show that text later on once it goes back to the time you'll need to press the display button there's no display button on here there's only one again on the remote control [Music] let's just try another couple of tracks we'll move on yep all the track names are copied across so that worked perfectly but if we're talking about track titles let me just take this disc out of here and put in a little cd single because you're supposed to be able to name your cds even if they don't have text on them you can apply a name to them and i think you can label up to 50. let me just have a look at the instructions here yes says you can label 50 cds with titles of up to 20 symbols and characters so there's three tracks on this cd and again i'm going to have to use a button that's only on the remote control name edit select there in the middle so if i press that i can now name this one i haven't figured out how to make it lower case i'm sure there's a button on the remote somewhere but we'll just stick with the capitals for the moment and then i presume i just press enter there we go right so that cd is now called phil collins so what i'm going to do now is eject that cd and then put it straight back in again and the device should be able to recognize the cd and display the name at the top of the screen that we've allocated to it and there we go phil collins now again it can only recognize 50 cds this way but i suppose some people could find that useful now i suppose it should go without saying but i best say anyway you can erase those names from the device's memory if i press the menu button on the remote control here i can read the name add a name eraser name or erase all the names in the memory which is what i'm going to do now so i'll press yes on that and then i've got to press yes again and there we go all the names stored in the memory are now erased i've put a better aerial on the back of this now so it's getting a better reception than it was before in fact it's pretty good though and you'll notice the radio you can have it scan through the frequencies if you want or you can manually do it yourself and it will find the radio station here display the rds information at the top but if i want to store that i've got to use the remote control again so i'm going to store that up position number four so that means i've got some presets on here now now of course those are directly accessible by the remote control you can go to the presets i've stored earlier just by pressing the number on there but from the device itself i can change the tuning mode between a manual tune that scan or preset so i've got it set to presets now so when i turn this button here it will move between the radio stations that i've stored in memory and i've got to say i'm really happy with the quality of the radio of course where i am you can only really pick up fm there's no point me trying the am although i did test it out off camera earlier on i could just about get sport talk radio but it's really crackly am radio in the uk has largely been abandoned that's why i never really go into it in any great detail but as far as fm goes it's working really well and of course we're getting the rds information across the top so yeah no problem with the radio you can see why this would have appealed back in the day i mean if someone had a large hi-fi and then it was either taking up too much room or they found they weren't using it so much anymore but they still had all their old cassettes and cds and things and i wanted to be able to listen to the radio as well well why not downsize to something like this in most cases a lot of those larger high fives that people would have had that they had before these one that sounded as good as this they would have had some kind of cheapy uh stack system or midi system some amstrad thing i mean this would actually be a big step up from that i think this was a bit of a golden era for affordable but decent quality hi-fi i mean just think of all the components we've got in here if you were to separate them out you've got an amplifier you've got speakers cassette deck mini disk cd player and then it's not just like the basic versions of those i mean the cd player's got cd text the radio's got rds on there the cassette deck whilst it's not the best in the world it's got auto reverse and soft touch controls so yeah this was a period when sony really knew how to make an affordable but decent quality device that would suit most people's needs one thing i didn't think about earlier on though when i was mentioning what you could plug in the back was uh bluetooth you can of course plug your bluetooth receiver into this so let me get hold of one of those so of course there's loads of different bluetooth receivers you could use this one's just a logitech device we've got rca line level outputs on the back as well as a 3.5 millimeter mini jack that i'm not using at the moment and then the power inputs coming in here it accepts five volts so i've got it plugged into a usb power brick at the other end but at this end it's a barrel plug now that's one thing with this particular device of course it doesn't have any kind of usb port on it otherwise i'd be powering this from the hi-fi itself but you can just pop that down the back there and then i can send my audio through to it now i want to select the rca inputs fortunately on the front here we've got this function button which cycles through all the different inputs so there it was i've skipped past it so go back around to analog input and that should be my bluetooth now it's got a built-in clock which displays all the time the device is in standby again this is something you can only set with the remote control other things you can do with the clock is to set a sleep timer so it will switch off after whatever amount of time you set on there but also you can get it to wake you up so it can work as an alarm clock and it can play either the cd the mini disc the radio or the cassette at whatever time you set these and the last handy feature i wanted to mention is that this can do timed recordings so you set it to a radio preset you choose the start time the stop time whether you want to record onto cassette or minidisc and then it will wake itself up from standby at that time and do that recording of course when it's doing it it doesn't play the radio out loud it's just recording it onto the media that you've chosen now i'm sure you've spotted throughout the video that this thing still needs to go clean it's probably been sending some people mad we've got these speckled dots on here which hopefully i can get off but also this stuff inside the speaker yeah it comes up all right it's just dust i'll give it a bit of a polish and then we'll do a summary now i've got to mention something about the price i paid so it's 76 pound but then again i paid for a remote control on top of that so we're just under 100 pounds now if you go looking on ebay today which is what i did the cheapest price i found one of these advertised for is 135 pounds the most expensive was i think 176 pounds now i know that if i don't mention this there'd be people that would go looking on there and say oh everyone's put the prices up it's the tech bone effect now first off people on ebay don't put prices up for their personal adverts based upon what one guy puts out in a youtube video they're not able to kind of link all those things together that quickly what tends to happen is that somebody might watch a video that i put out and go oh yeah i won't mind one of those they'll go on ebay they'll have a look what's listed and they'll buy the cheapest one and it'd only take three or four people to do that and all the cheap ones are then gone so all you're left with are the expensive ones so yeah they they'd be more expensive than this if you went looking today i don't know what it's going to be like when this video comes out but i got this at a low price by just being patient waiting for the prices to come down waiting for one that was local one that i could pick up or that didn't have to pay postage on all that kind of stuff so yeah if you go on there and you fancy one of these i wouldn't just go and buy the first one you see at the highest price and then blame me now put in a safe search get it to notify you when one appears at a certain price range that you're willing to pay for or one that's in your area that kind of thing i've got to say though it's not all guaranteed sunshine and roses with old mini systems though you've got to bear in mind that these things are getting on in years there'll be plenty of people who are watching this video right now who weren't even born when this thing came out and plenty of those people will have children of their own i'm going to say over in the u.s you won't see this model i don't think i don't think it came out over there one of the reasons will be because of the uh minidisc recorder on here and you can blame that on the riaa intimidating and putting off retailers and record labels from going anywhere near any recording former after the compact cassette they felt that they were caught sleeping letting the compact cassette came out and then after that any new home hi-fi recording equipment that came out they did their very best to kill it off fortunately r-i-a-a that's over in the us in the uk they didn't really bother too much over in japan especially not the other way they were all for recording everything and you'll find loads of things like this with minidisc recorders on over there but there's a few words awarded on imported from japan i'll do a separate video about importing mini high fives from japan because there are pros and cons and it's mostly cons unfortunately but yeah if you're interested in anything like this i'll have some links in the video description it'll point you kind of in the right direction on ebay i can try and get some affiliate uh revenue if you do decide to buy anything but yeah don't just look at this particular model this is the one that i like the look of but there's a lot of alternatives but there's also a lot of rubbish out there just because it's a small high five doesn't mean it's good you know it's really luck of the draw with these things they're not really built to last is what i mean to say but you know in my opinion still despite saying all those things the best value today in used hi-fi can often be found in mini systems but you've just got to get a little bit lucky not to get a lemon anyway that's it for the moment as always thanks for watching [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Techmoan

Views: 615,931

Keywords: Techmoan, 4K, Mini system, mini, HiFi, hi-fi, system, best, old, budget, small, Sony, minidisc, tape, cassette, cd, radio, high speed dubbing, RDS, CMT CP505-MD, MD, Compact Disc, vintage, 2000s, compact, FM, shelf, systems, bookshelf

Id: OUvau-DMuEY

Length: 39min 48sec (2388 seconds)

Published: Sat May 08 2021