Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon

Why HN readers recommended it

HN fans use it as the gateway to the Techmoan channel and praise it as one of the most fascinating obscure audio formats.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Techmoan

Topic

vintage audio formats

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The coolest thing he's covered, I think, that I'd never heard of before is the tefifon: [VIDEO] It's basically a continuous loop of tape (similar to an 8-track) but with groves recording music (like a vinyl record). It didn't see much popularity outside of Germany …

• My gateway video was the one on the Tefifon - [VIDEO] - a consumer music playback format. Production ended the same decade we stood on the moon.

• If you want another rabbit hole to start down, I can also recommend Techmoan. He doesn't do teardowns, but instead likes to buy old HiFi gear and reviews them. Some of them are incredibly obscure such as the Tefifon: [VIDEO]