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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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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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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 YouTube
  • Every Hi-Fi requires a cat to pet while using it
    @darling7595See it on YouTube
  • I 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

Public comments from the video's page on YouTube

The videos drawing views on Techmoan right now

XGIMI Aura 3 Max 4K 120Hz UST Projector. Rather impressive.164,945 views · 2026-09-30 Mini Records: Mini Verse vs Mini Brands470,485 views
The facts
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

The numbers

Here is how Techmoan's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
Insert Richie
8,538,221
Trevor Nace
5,070,476
Switch and Click
4,403,821
Matty McTech
2,835,909
ETA PRIME
2,788,155
Brandon Butch
1,560,686
Techmoan
767,014
Paul's Hardware
713,216
subscribers
1,470,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
371,900,604
views per day
136,139
typical day: 183,131
this week's videos (first-day views)
My personal stereo story
158,552
XGIMI Aura 3 Max 4K 120Hz UST Projector…
107,936
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Paul's Hardware
1,560,000
Trevor Nace
1,500,000
Techmoan
1,470,000
Matty McTech
1,470,000
Insert Richie
1,450,000
Brandon Butch
1,440,000
Switch and Click
1,410,000
ETA PRIME
1,400,000
Tech Spurt
1,400,000
As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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