A friend gifted me this cd/radio//cassette recorder player. Its almost new but the cassette badly warps, plays for a little and then garbles like crazy. I don't know a thing about belts, electricity, the plumbing about cassette recorders. All I know is that the sound is brilliant from this small size boombox manufacture by Phillips Magnavox in 1999, Made in China?

the fast forward thing whirls like a whirling dervish, a thing seems brand new but a belt is broke somewhere along the line.
my email: TheSpiritOfSong@sbcglobal.net
my name: Leon (my nay Jose Imenez?) type thing.

Thanks in advance

Will some one please come to my assitance?

"In the name of beautiful sound and music"


"Music and song soothes the savage soul"

Leon Catchatoorian, November 2006

I have this same boombox. The end-of-tape shutoff did not work well. Once a tape reached the end and the cassette player remained on in the play mode. As a result (when I found it), something (a belt?) broke, because it will not play. So, I too would be interested in info on how to make this repair. If this is a universal problem with this machine, I suppose the manufacturer won't issue a recall unless it poses a risk of injury.

Bob Newman, January 2007