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In Reply to: First turntable? posted by mr grits on March 4, 2010 at 13:48:34:
I had it many years before I was actually born. (how else can I explain having a TT in 1965 without saying I am an old bag.)
Love at first sight. Saw it in a store, and decided I had to have a stereo to be able to own it.
I had the Garrard changer for about ten years. After that the usual 70's 80's japanese stuff. Then dumped vinyl and went all CD. After coming to my senses, I got a Denon DP59-L, then added a Dual Golden One. Then someone gave me a Rega/magnipan Unitrac with a Dynavector Ruby23. All my recent listening has been on the Rega, but I just bought a Rega 5, AND a Kuzma S/Stogi S.
In between I dug up a non-functional Garrard Lab100, but threw it in the dumpster. The Lab 100, with the pivoting headshell was a technological nightmare. It had three or four cobbled together bits for every one needed. Just the platter had like twenty parts. It would have taken a PHD to figure out what all the gears, levers, springs did inside its mechanism. I shiver just thinking about it.
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Follow Ups
- Garrard Lab-80 (wood tone arm ruled) back in 1965 - Elizabeth 00:27:29 03/05/10 (4)
- I remember having a Lab-80... - EdAInWestOC 04:37:24 03/05/10 (3)
- Yes, your right it was a Zero 100... eeeek! what a mess. - Elizabeth 06:41:28 03/05/10 (2)
- Yeah Elizabeth... - EdAInWestOC 09:28:41 03/05/10 (1)
- My folks had a Zero 92 - Biff 16:23:18 03/05/10 (0)