PERRYinLA

Well no one listens to tapes anymore, anyway. You can't even get a cassette deck on many new cars. But I use mine to feed the audio from my satellite radio, or at least I did until I started getting the "ERR" message displayed. At that point, the audio goes out and I can't eject the tape, unless I keep fiddling with the eject button for several minutes. The CD and AM/FM continue to work fine.

This is with one of those $20 Sony cassette input adapters- there's not even any magnetic tape in there- it just feeds an audio signal from the output plug of your iPod, satellite PnP, etc. to the tape head. Anyone know why it should act up? It's a 1992 SC400 w/the Nakamichi option. I am thinking it's bad belts- it's been 13 years, that rubber has to give up sometime.

Anyone have any ideas? And is belt replacement something I can do myself?

engin_ear

iTrader: (1)

Can you play a regular cassette in there any more? That would tell you more info.

PERRYinLA

Given how hard it has become to remove a cassette (tape or adapter) once it has been inserted and the "ERR" message appears, I'd rather not risk that quite yet.