Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon
Techmoan3 HN recommenders · 2016–2018
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Techmoan demonstrates the Tefifon, a vintage German audio player that combines elements of record and tape with a grooved elastic loop. He shows how it works and plays it.
HN fans use it as the gateway to the Techmoan channel and praise it as one of the most fascinating obscure audio formats.
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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 and then was essentially obsoleted by magnetic tape. Such a fascinating technology though. In a parallel Universe it probably would have been vastly more popular.
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]
Speaking of forgotten audio formats: Tefifon, old german analog loop of elastic, non-magnetic, tape. More or less ``8-track meet vinyl''. [VIDEO] [LINK]
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.