rx-5050

Hello, Im glad to apart of this forum, as I recently got back into the cassette game, and building my collections as we speak! I have a Panasonic RX-5050 which I've had for some years now and I love it to death..just recently I have noticed the tape deck has been playing tapes a lot slower than...

So for a while, I've had a problem with this Panasonic RX-5050 boombox I have. I suspect the issue lies in the cassette head somewhere. Whenever I press the play button, it makes a very loud noise that sounds somewhat like an explosion or a thunderstorm, and a faint hum can be heard in the...