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We'd rent a large hotel suite, offer either a dinner, or wine and cheese, and present a slide show, mostly silly fluff that rarely ever had anything to do with what made any of the Pickering cartridges work. It's amazing how wrong an audio salesman could be, and I sure was (as were many at Lafayette, swayed as we were by the spiffs we were paid on profitable items, and the lack of same on higher quality stuff).Īs another historical note of interest, when I started working for Pickering, we used to have slide shows we presented to dealers. It lasted for years, and I sold it to someone who never had any trouble with it either. All that flew out the window, when I replaced my Zero-100 with a Dual 1229Q, and marveled at how much better it sounded, and how it played warped records with ease. We at Lafayette wrongly believed in Garrard's superiority over Dual models, mostly because of the enormous difference in servicing costs and replacement parts when either needed repairs. It did all right: it was so massive that on playing warped records, it actually bounced up off the record's surface, and then came crashing back down. I actually bought a Zero-100, believing the tangential tonearm made a difference. They were just plain lousy to begin with. I sold hundreds of Garrard turntables in my 14 years with Lafayette Radio, and rarely had QC problems with any of them. Why not just wait until then? The cheesy tonearms (which were usually crooked, and had the cartridges tilted sideways on the record surface) of the Garrards could ruin any cartridge you might wish to use later, which the Marantz tables wouldn't. The guy that has the Garrard also has a couple of 1970's Marantz TT's and he may eventually give me one. The guy that has the Garrard also has a couple of 1970's Marantz TT's and he may eventually give me one.Įstat, thanks for reminding me about Frank's phono preamp.
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As far as the Garrard TT is concerned, I know that it is a piece of Dreck! But it is free and spending about $300 on a cartridge and phono preamp that can be used later on lets say a sub $1K Pro-Ject debut or Rega TT is worth it to me.
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In addition, the next major purchase for my system will be an upgrade from my Parasound A21 amp to something in the $4K-5K range, probably a used CJ or Pass amp. My issue with buying a high end TT is cost (the set up that I would like to have is the music hall MMF 7, pro-ject tube box IIse and Virtuoso or Maestro Cartridge) and the fact that my 300 or so LP's are in poor shape from my college days. I have no illusions of grandeur about the sound. I certainly appreciate you being blunt and I agree with you. Sorry to be so blunt, but Garrard is a name for which I once had, and no longer do have any respect. To be even more blunt, adding a Garrard model - any Garrard model - to one's lineup of equipment is like adding a Nash Rambler to one's "classic" car collection.
Garrard zero 100 turntable review for free#
A Garrard sales manager actually gave me one for free in an attempt to sway me over, but after a quick listen, I packed it up and gave it back. I can remember the GT-55 model - the supposedly "corrected" and "improved" version of the Zero-100, and how shunned it was by most of the industry. line, the only successful Garrard models were the real cheapies, and the new distributor, Plessy, direct from England, despite herculean efforts to improve the quality of Garrard turntables, never achieved much success with the Garrard name. Garrard enjoyed tremendous business in the U.S., largely due to the successful business relationship between British Industries and Lafayette Radio, but once British Industries brought about the B.I.C.
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lineup of belt-drive automatic turntables. distributor, British Industries, dropped them in favor of the far superior B.I.C. The 630 was a fairly cheap model made by Garrard after their U.S. The 770 model was a less expensive version of their once touted, then universally panned Zero-100 model, but leaving off the "tangential" portion of the massive (most decidedly NOT "low mass" tonearm). "Cheap" hardly begins to describe them, and they certainly don't belong in the roster of fine equipment listed in your profile. That being said, I don't understand why you're even considering either of these two turntables, even for free.
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From your previous posts on this forum, I get the impression you are a serious listener, and want equipment that will provide you with decent performance and good sound. I had to jump in here and add my two cents.