{"id":8673,"date":"2016-02-17T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2016-02-17T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:13:48","slug":"i-have-seen-some-goofy-audio-tech-but-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/i-have-seen-some-goofy-audio-tech-but-this\/","title":{"rendered":"i have seen some goofy audio tech, but this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, sometime in the 1980s, TEAC &#8211; a legitimate, major, respected maker of audio gear &#8211; thought it would be a great idea to combine reel-to-reel loading technology with audiocassette frames.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a compact audiocassette where you load the reels individually. And you can swap them out! I AM NOT EVEN MAKING THIS UP LOOK AT IT THIS IS LUDICROUS:<\/p>\n<p><Center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50kOJRfVCQ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The selling point was presumably size of the little mini-reels vs. size of an entire cassette frame. But&#8230; honestly, <em>how did this ever make it to market?<\/em> Particularly given what a pain in the ass it is to actually load into a cassette frame and use. Watch the video, it&#8217;s pretty much hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-02\/teac-open-cassette.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, sometime in the 1980s, TEAC &#8211; a legitimate, major, respected maker of audio gear &#8211; thought it would be a great idea to combine reel-to-reel loading technology with audiocassette frames. Yes, it&#8217;s a compact audiocassette where you load the reels individually. And you can swap them out! I AM NOT EVEN MAKING THIS UP [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8676,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}