Hi everyone, I have finished refurbing a JVC RV-656C and there is a speaker click or pop every time you shut the radio off or stop the tape playback. Does anyone know if this is normal or is there any trouble shooting advice for this ? There is a slight delayed reaction, maybe a 1/4 to 1/2 a second. Thank you!
I just pulled mine off shelf. Put a tape in it. Hit play and it popped once or twice after I worked the switch a couple times and after that it stopped. So I suggest you clean yours more thoroughly the switches and check all your grounds that I've done with mine. Mine is playing right now. My famous tape. Here's a picture. Don't mind if there's a few others boomboxes in this room. I've got a few LOL Did I mention I have both models? The other one is the JVC RC 656 c. Mark II with the blue speakers and the open grilles. Post script if you don't know already the c in the model number stands for Canada. At least that's what they told me. decentman4you2007@gmail.com Send me an email. I'll answer any questions.
Thank you, I have cleaned the switches with Deoxit but I will double check the grounds as well. It doesn't seem like it is the switches as the pop is slightly delayed from the shutoff, almost a little discharge. It is not a major issue, but just a slight annoyance. Thanks again. Nice collection!
You may not want to do this, but the grounds that I'm referring to are the ones that are on the cassette deck, which means that you have to open the unit all up again and disconnect the wires that go to and from the cassette deck and clean them front and back and then the surface that they touch on and then screw it all back together in any other grounds or miscellaneous wires that go places inside the unit. All that stuff really needs to be cleaned and when I go through a unit I clean everything. I clean all the switches even the ones I may not ever use. Because I don't want to be going through the issue that you're going through, which is why I try to troubleshoot and or play the unit before I put it all back together. Just a thought.
A Million-Dollar advise, @Cassette2go should have put it in all-BLOCK letters and made sticky! Over the last year I serviced quite a few Sony D-25 and D-10 Discmans and a lot of them have this same problem: tinned copper land under the screw connecting the board to the metal frame gets oxidized. And since the frame is also used as a common ground and the shielding, you see a lot of weird things while trying to calibrate the little buggers! Plus those tiny switches ... but at least with Discmans I do not have to deal with those horrible Rec/Play sliders, I am afraid to open my boomboxes because of those!!
I smile every time I see that damn room full of boombox's of cassette's I wonder if there are any National Panasonic 5410's or RQ 568's in there? Or Sony CF-490? The only 3 boxes that I'm interested in getting these days. Hey Jorge I wish you would do some work on the old National Panasonic 5410 and RQ 568 and post about them. Then again maybe not... cause' it might spark interest or remind people about those particular models and drive up their prices heh heh
@Hyperscope - I will...!!! I Must...!!! simply because RF-5410 is all gutted in a huge box and takes a lot of space. Right now I am polishing the edges around my new Discmans collection: final touches on Philips CD10 and CD10 Mk2. It is simply amazing - except for the laser and outer shell these are like two different models. More different than Sony D-50 and D-50 MkII. And, as with National boomboxes, CD10 Mk2 does not have Service Manual available anywhere
I have a Sony CF something but I can't find it because I have too much stuff and nobody's bought anything or even giving me an address to ship something to. And I do have some monos in here. But I just don't have enough room to move stuff around in here and show them. So I've displayed a couple on the top shelf and I found this JVC rc-443jw here's a picture. I do have the rc550's monos but nobody's interested in those.
I see a lot of interest to RC550 on eBay, prices for non-working start at $500, but a few were sold for ~$200. Under a thou for the working monsters. Overall though I expected the prices to be higher but they seem to be about the same as I remember from before-COVID, when I was building my bbox collection
I have your video of that JVC 443, nice rare one, good medium sized mono with BIG speaker. The famous "mega mono "king JVC 550 was on my list for ages. I'm going to send ya an e-mail Cassette2go to discuss further
