Yahama TC1000 Help

[MPB]

Hey guys,

I recently acquired a Yamaha TC1000 is good cosmetic condition. I was too fired up to do any cleaning and hooked it up to a Onkyo TX 2500. I have attached a video of this awful sound from the left channel that remains when switching the input on the Yamaha. Any advice is welcome. I have read a bit but is this model worth keeping?

I have a sweet spot for Yamaha and hope to purchase the matching receiver. Anyone know which model that is? I dont necessarily need the 200w monster but something solid. Does the Yamaha CR450 match?

For what its worth, I am currently bypassing it by using the mono feature on the Onkyo.

Thanks for reading.

Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SbDnKpM9b4etsrkeUXEKXnJHa0jgvlW9?usp=sharing

 

[mhardy6647]

Dirty record switch. The record oscillator is coming on in playback, which is why the meter's pegged.
I happened to have a photo of the location of the record switch in a TC-1000




Clean & exercise the record switch and all should be OK.

Mine, unfortunately, still doesn't sound great -- pretty deck, though.

 

[MPB]

Thanks for your reply. How do you suggest cleaning and exercising the record switch? My experience is obviously limited but I want to be sure before making any drastic mistakes.

Why doesn’t yours sound any good?

 

[mhardy6647]

Thanks for your reply. How do you suggest cleaning and exercising the record switch? My experience is obviously limited but I want to be sure before making any drastic mistakes.

Why doesn’t yours sound any good?

1) CAIG DeOxit D5 see https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/the-idiots-guide-to-using-deoxit-revisited.207005/
2) I don't know. Way back when, @merrylander (when he was still doing Yamaha repairs) took a crack at sprucing it up, but wasn't (by his own admission) too successful.

They're not very common decks, and they're really, unfortunately, nothing special. I don't remember them when they would have been new, and their place in the Yamaha foodchain still perplexes me.

The first Yamaha cassette deck of my ken was the TC-511S. I bought a used one from Soundscape in Baltimore in the late 1970s and it served me well for decades. I have subsequently bought a few on eBAY and still have one of them. An extremely unprepossessing cassette deck, but I always was pleased with the performance of them for the $ (especially that first one I had).

TC511S203-420view20AK by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
P1030116 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr