Surrounded by record players and speakers that he designed and built on his own, Takeshi Teragaki, 86, a renowned sound system engineer, began to talk about how he first became intrigued by audio players.

An interviewer set up a small digital video camera to record Teragaki. The footage would later be edited and uploaded on the Internet.

"When I was young, I read an article about record producing machines and how several hundred watts were used to carve the record groove," he says. "I felt by intuition that that was a huge amount of power."