My new Garrard 301

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New to me of course! I have newly assembled a Garrard 301 with a Jelco 750L arm and a Denon 103 cartridge with a Zu audio aluminium body. A plywood plinth from Moldova, a new kokomo bearing and brass spikes for feet

Really happy with it. Excellent bass, detail and almost 3d presence.

 

Enjoy!

 

Thanks. I am.

I was hoping to somehow get a slate plinth made cheaply but that didn't look like everything happening

 

Hell of a nice turntable setup you have there.

 

Well done , lovely looking.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Congratulations, I hope it brings you years of pleasure!

 

Amazing deck. Great stuff.

 

Lovely set up - it doesn't get much better!

Should have my 301 up and running sometime next week too

Enjoy your trip to the vinyl frontier

John

 

That arm is cool.

 

A lovely deck, I have one myself. I tried a Kokomo bearing on mine for a very short while and didn't like it (I just prefer the sound of the original bearing), so I sold it, and the guy who bought it from me said it eventually put a big wear mark on the bottom of his main bearing shaft. This worried me greatly as this part is pretty much irreplaceable so I would advise stripping the bearing down quite regularly and assessing it for wear. I understand the Kokomo is now in MkII guise so things may be different now ( mine was the original version), but I'd still keep an eye on it if I were you.

 

Very cool Garrard!

 

Thanks again. That's interesting and worrying Tony. I didn't even try with the original bearing so can't comment on the sound difference. Maybe I should!

The Garrard is definitely a great deck

 

Very nice Mr. Richard. I`ll have to pop down sometime to check it out. Hope you`re keeping well. Dave.

 

Hi Dave, you'd be very welcome. How did you know it was me?

 

You have the same username on tirnahifi! Plus the Beatles stuff was a dead giveaway

 

Beautiful turntable.

 

I'm not even that much of a Beatles fan!!

Thanks Peter!

 

I do like the looks of that. Best of luck with it!!!