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DoWahDiddy54321 · 4th May 2021, 9:30 pm

Hi,

I bought this Pye stereo radio cassette player at auction along with another to play some of my of old cassettes from the 70s/80s. They were still boxed, with the cassette drawers still taped over, and looked unused.

I've played a couple of cassettes on the other player i bought and they play and sound fine with no deterioration in sound quality even though the cassettes are circa 40 years old.

On the Pye player (TR9559), the radio works perfectly. However, there is terrible crackling and other interference when i play the same cassettes that play perfectly on the other player. The player doesn't have a balance control so I tried listening through headphones and the interference only sounds through one side. When i swapped the headphones around, the interference moved to the other side.

Does anyone have any idea if there is a simple way to fix this problem?

Thanks for reading my post.

PS. If i shouldn't have posted my problem to this forum, as my cassette p!ayer is not deemed to be a vintage item, please tell me so and, in which case, my apologies.

4th May 2021, 9:30 pm	#1
DoWahDiddy54321 Triode Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: Billericay, Essex, UK. Posts: 42	Pye TR9559 Cassette - Playback Sound Interference Hi, I bought this Pye stereo radio cassette player at auction along with another to play some of my of old cassettes from the 70s/80s. They were still boxed, with the cassette drawers still taped over, and looked unused. I've played a couple of cassettes on the other player i bought and they play and sound fine with no deterioration in sound quality even though the cassettes are circa 40 years old. On the Pye player (TR9559), the radio works perfectly. However, there is terrible crackling and other interference when i play the same cassettes that play perfectly on the other player. The player doesn't have a balance control so I tried listening through headphones and the interference only sounds through one side. When i swapped the headphones around, the interference moved to the other side. Does anyone have any idea if there is a simple way to fix this problem? Thanks for reading my post. PS. If i shouldn't have posted my problem to this forum, as my cassette p!ayer is not deemed to be a vintage item, please tell me so and, in which case, my apologies.