u/Busy-Reference-4287

Hello.

I got a carver stack for an insane deal and I love my TL-3200. Awesome quality. When testing the receiver I got however, this is happening. It won’t output any sound when hooked up to my TL-3200, and it just does this. When turning up the volume knob, it makes an extremely loud popping sound before cutting the buzzing for a second, then the buzzing comes back.

I got it to play sound once from the TL-3200, and the volume knob was very spotty. When turning the knob, static sounds came and it did not increase the volume like how it should, with random extremely loud and extremely quiet sporadic volume levels. It also kept on cutting out my left ear channel when adjusting the knob.

Am I screwed on this here? I’m quite new to audio repair.

EDIT: For everyone who’s wanting to see the tape, the link is https://youtu.be/GKcqQOPGt\_o?si=PwkgVJEauQYm\_on1

It’s an electronic press kit promoting his monsters and robots album. For reference, the album came out September 21st, 1999, and this tape was published for music studios and music broadcasting companies (like MTV and MuchMusic) a couple of months before to build hype. It has never been played, and if people want, I can try looking at someone who preserves VHS tapes to see what’s on this tape and post it to the public, because to my knowledge, no video of this tape exists online. The flat was bundled in to help promote it. I don’t know if it’s that rare, but again, no videos of the tape exist online.