A JVC PC-V77, old tapes and a sleeping cat: Techmoan's personal stereo story
The meandering trip back to his teenage radio cassette sat beside an XGIMI ultra-short-throw projector he calls rather impressive.
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My personal stereo story
Among the gadget channels of his size, Techmoan is one of the quieter ones this week: most of the channels nearby, Insert Richie and Switch and Click among them, are running ahead of their usual pace, while his daily views sit a little below his own norm.
The week still had one of his more personal uploads. "My personal stereo story" is billed in its own description as intentionally meandering, and it is: Mat goes back to his old JVC PC-V77 portable stereo, the music it introduced him to (hip-hop, picked up from the radio), and what is actually on the tapes he recorded back then. It passed 240,000 views in a week.
The comments are a small party of their own. Many viewers are talking about the cat, who held the good chair until it didn't, and whom one viewer would happily see more of even asleep. North West listeners guessed the far-off station before he named it, Key 103, and the show, Stu Allan's, and a few who knew the late DJ shared memories of him. Another viewer dug out the same model, bought in 1989, and found it still works.
Then, back to the new. The XGIMI Aura 3 Max, a 4K 120Hz ultra-short-throw home cinema projector, got an early look under the verdict "Rather impressive," with a firmware note added after the fact about its keystone correction. Only three days old, it is the video drawing the most traffic on the channel right now, while September's mini record players keep turning quietly in the background.
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What viewers say
Lol The cat has the best chair ...
@droopyyyyyyySee it on YouTubeEvery Hi-Fi requires a cat to pet while using it
@darling7595See it on YouTubeI have that exact model I bought in '89 at Circuit City in Bradenton, Florida and this vid prompted me to unearth it from a box and Damn, everything still works on it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to revisit those tapes I created on it which I still also have. Great video !
@framzoidSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Techmoan right now
- Channel
- Techmoan
- Subscribers
- 1,470,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 767,014
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- September 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 243,974
- Views on its first day
- 158,552
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💡 Test your knowledge
Which company launched the Walkman, the portable cassette player that started the personal stereo craze, in 1979?
Sony released the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, in Japan in July 1979.