Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon
Techmoan3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2016-2018
1.5M views · 11 years ago · demo · evergreen
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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4 comments from Hacker News
My gateway video was the one on the Tefifon - ▶ this video - a consumer music playback format. Production ended the same decade we stood on the moon.
Speaking of forgotten audio formats: Tefifon, old german analog loop of elastic, non-magnetic, tape. More or less ``8-track meet vinyl''. ▶ this video link
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: ▶ this video
The coolest thing he's covered, I think, that I'd never heard of before is the tefifon: ▶ this 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.