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RE: Retired; want'a play vinyl; should I drag out my old Garrard SL95-B? Needles?

Posted by Mike27 (A) on January 28, 2015 at 21:20:00

In Reply to: Retired; want'a play vinyl; should I drag out my old Garrard SL95-B? Needles? posted by dbtrail@gmail.com on January 24, 2015 at 20:03:14:

I have an SL-95B, and properly set up, it can track well at 1.5 grams with any number of modern cartridges. I've used Ortofon OM-20, a couple of Audio-Technicas, and an old Grado in it.

The big problem with these, and especially if they've been in storage for a while, is that the grease in all the moving parts tends to harden like glue and jam the mechanism. Sometimes parts can be damaged when this happens. The only cure is to disassemble and clean off the old hardened grease. If you have some mechanical aptitude it's not that hard, just meticulous work. The Vinyl Engine site has the service manual (which mainly consists of an exploded drawing and list of parts) as well as a Garrard forum (link below.) That group covers a lot of different models but there are a number of old threads on the SL-95B and related models.

If you have the large hole 45 spindle, there's no better way to play a stack of singles!

Hope this helps!

Mike

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