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1980 - in 2026 flying cars 2026 - we have 80s boombox
Came for the review, got blown away by the MC Techmoan freestyle.
They should include the option for a picture of you on the speaker cone 😂
You have to appreciate when an effort is made.. a rare thing in 2026
The VU meter should indicate how loud the source is and should not be dependent on the volume knob. Even if you bring it down to zero it should so show you what the source signal is trying to play back as.
Good to see that the company is responsive. Hope this is a big success for them
You forgot the shoulder test. :)
I bet the issue with the radio is they're using a switching power supply with poor filtering. They could doubtless fix that by properly filtering the SMPS. Really no reason for that.The background noise on the CD player hints at poor filtering generally in the circuit design. It is not a "characteristic of the current transport", that's frankly nonsense. Unfortunately this just appears to be the same electronics as most other boomboxes in a nice retro case. I really hope they iron out the issues. I'm glad they seem to have find decent cassette mechs (or at least, compared to the norm). Shame they trusted teh factory so much and didn't put as much real effort into the electronics throughout. A lot of potential here but some way to go yet.
This company should be ever so grateful to Matt's input and making them not release a sub-par product. I'm sure their early Flossy video brought lots of backers, but they should not really ever release stuff like this without the proper Techmoan seal of legit boom box quality.
Those magnetic store display stickers are a great idea. It gives you the option of reverting to the fresh out of the box look and not damaging the srickers when you want to remove them. (Which i do 100% of the time)
I'm not a fan of the LCD stating OPEN and CLOSE when playing a CD. These should be LOAD and EJECT in my opinion, as there's no tray.
I need to make space for this at home. Who needs a bathroom anyway
Why not default ID3 tags display to 'on'?
They've used a noisy switching supply...hence radio reception is poorer on AC power. Sounds like earth loops between digital and analogue systems exist in the CD player. Although more costly, they should have used a traditional linear power supply and have a working radio...
Some of these pre-production issues are obvious; I'm surprised you have had to point them out.
27:23 In their video, you can see that they have their test equipment set to JIS weighting, while your Philips unit measures in DIN weighting. JIS-weighted values are lower than DIN-weighted values for the same signal. (It's RMS vs peak, essentially.)
The fact that no one at their end noticed any of these very basic issues doesn't bode very well for this thing if we're being honest.
If the receiving is bad as you run this this on mains, then there's likely a SMPS in it that cause these problems.
I think the VU LED meter should be in circuit before the main amplifier, so it's not affected by the position of the volume control. I know it doesn't need a VU meter having automatic level control on the recording but so has my old Hitachi TRK-8130E and the LED meter on that will read the same with the volume at 0 or at Max. The Hitachi has 5 LEDs the first one is lit when the power is applied even with no signal and is labelled OPR, then follows with -20, -10, 0, +3dB. If the metering was done in the same way then the response could be adjusted to look the same for any volume level.
I'm not sure that I like, what looks like a massive DC offset being applied to the speakers at 9:47 when the unit is powering up. (Look at the silver speaker domes).