The player will play analogue tapes (but the left channel keeps on dropping so probably needs a recap) but major issues with DCC tapes.
Didn’t have any DCC tapes (sold them all years ago) so bought one off of E-Bay - it started to play well then went funny - checked the tape and in some areas you could see it was damaged. Informed the seller who sent another one - when this is inserted it just says 'CLEAN HEAD"
I have cleaned the head with IPA and also put new pinch rollers in but still the same.
Just in case the second tape was duff I bought a third and the same (bought from this very site)
So, just put a DCC tape in and put it in service mode and I get the following when pressing play:
ERROR 00001000 on but the 3rd from the end o keeps flicking to a 1 (so 00001100)
When I check the channels:
Ch5 ERROR 20
Ch6 ERROR 13 (sometimes 17 or 18)
Ready for the skip then??