No sound from cassette

noelsm22

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Hello guys, I hope any one can help me. My RX-5150 has no sound from the cassette. Everything looks working fine, the radio sounds amazing, and it is even recording fine, but when I try to play a cassette, it's like a blank tape. The recording plays fine in another player. I've been checking it but I found nothing, right now I need help.
 

Fatdog

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Welcome aboard, Noel! Two things I would check/do right off. 1) Take some contact cleaner and spray the selector switch for radio/tape. Sometimes there can be oxidation or dirt that prevents proper contact. It's been a while since I've had a 5150, so I don't remember if you need to partially disassemble the unit to access the switch for proper spraying. 2) Check the headphone jack for audio. Also, you can spray contact cleaner in the headphone jack, and then work it by inserting the headphone plug a bunch of times.
 

floyd

Boomus Fidelis
Another thing to look at are the playback head and the wires that are soldered to the pins at the bottom of the head . I'm only guessing but it might be a faulty playback head. I have a box that does the same thing but 1 channel on the playback does work but the other side has almost no sound and pretty sure it's the head because on all other functions it works great. If all else fails it's at least a suspect lol.
 
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noelsm22

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Thankyou all for your responses. I actually already tried all that, even replaced the head with a brand new one with no results. Also cleaned all switches with a contact spray. Curious thing, if I disconect the head and touch the white cable it makes sound, like when you touch the positive of an audio plug.
 

floyd

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Thankyou all for your responses. I actually already tried all that, even replaced the head with a brand new one with no results. Also cleaned all switches with a contact spray. Curious thing, if I disconect the head and touch the white cable it makes sound, like when you touch the positive of an audio plug.
I know it sounds stupid but check the ground wire to the deck . it has a lot to do with the signal grounding to the tape head. might be nothing but it's worth checking.