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In Reply to: RE: Garrard Zero 100 Thread Below posted by Doug G. on April 18, 2014 at 16:55:31
The Garrard Zero 100 was not a very good turntable. I'm not speaking from opinion alone but as a former owner of a Zero 100.The table looks like a technical tour de force and that's exactly what a lot of people thought back when they were released. It looked like it could be a great table and a long term member of anyone's analog rig. Sadly...such was not the case.
Garrard was the manufacturer of a couple very good turntables in the 301 and 401 but the Zero 100 was not in their league at all. The idea of an articulating headshell to mitigating tracking errors seemed like a great idea but the execution was not up to the idea.
The pivots in that arm assembly are way too sloppy to do their job without lending problems of their own. What should have been the best part of that turntable turned out to be its Achilles heel. Sad.
The drive mechanism in the Zero 100 was overly complex and required too many parts to perform a simple job like spinning the platter. Even something as simple as spinning the platter at a pre-determined speed was not done well on the Zero 100.
In the end the Garrard Zero 100 should have been a product to be proud of. Unfortunately the execution was not up to the concept and what sounds like a very good idea did not makes it into a concrete product.
Garrard could have used a winner back when the Zero 100 was released. Its a good looking deck. A shame.
Ed
We don't shush around here!
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof
Edits: 04/18/14Follow Ups:
For what it's worth, I think this response is perfectly appropriate and not jerky at all. You can tell someone they've bought a POS without being a jerk, and this is a perfect example of how.EDIT: I didn't read the Zero 100 thread below. I really only meant this as a response to this thread, and that the OP of this thread posted after EDAinWestOC's post that people were still being jerks.
Edits: 04/19/14
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