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In Reply to: Garrard pic of the day posted by J.D. on September 18, 2006 at 19:49:44:
Perhaps access to the image was being blocked somehow. Anyway I put a copy on my site to link to.My take on the 501, in purely aesthetic terms, is that it appears elegant in the English tradition of understatement. Retro, traditional. Like a fifties Rolls Royce / Bentley but with updated mechanicals. The plinths they make for the 301 and 401 models appear very similar and the overall effect works for me. Maybe I just like that particular shade of Red.
It would be highly interesting to be able to audition one of these tables ... if just for the satisfaction of knowing how good they actually are.
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it could be that the site you are linking from is either stripped or blocked by the Asylum.
Then it fell and destroyed the table......Good thing the picture made it through....
Cheers!
Have you tried adding some bullet weights to the RB250 for the Denon DL103R I sent you? Add a couple and see how it sounds.
You have to add the same to the counterweight. I just use some blu tak for quick and dirty comparisons. Hot glue it if you like it. (Hot glue breaks easily with a twist so it is semi permanent.)
((Weird. I got it appearing on "preview", and have gotten it every time since.))At any rate, agree on the styling ... such as it is today. This table has actually been around at this point for well over 10 years, and they've definitely been tinkering with the styling, if only infinitesimally, which is probably a good thing. With good results, I think. There is the British design sense that brought us Pug dogs and Welly boots, and then again, there's the British design sense that brought us Jaguar motorcars and Elizabeth Hurley.
To me, though, having been up to my ears in Garrard 301 stuff-- parts, wheels, bearings, platters, motors, etc --- for the last year and a half, it's the tantalizing reviews and the few pix available lately, showing the mechanism and the interior .... that makes it very intriguing indeed.
Kinda like pulling your head out from under the hood of your 1956 Chevy Impala, and then, when you look back, every single element has been retro-fitted by Nasa, circa 2006.
Pretty impressive-looking in there. But all the same concept, basically the same positions, and type of components (if all improved), all just brought into the next century.
BTW the stock stripped model is about $13K, whereas the all-stainless Inspiration model, originating from ideas from a custom-build they did for one customer ---- the Pic shown before in the jaguar-red --- costs a seriously more substantial $22K.
But you're right. Gotta hear it. What's a little distracting, though, is that it probably can sound very different --- mostly all good, but different on the fine points --- depending on how you plinth it, and how you arm it. Like it's grand-parents.
I can well picture myself sitting listening in some very posh Beige Area Salon, and wondering if the plinth were just a little less x, or more y, or reset for z ................
Funny what happens when you take a Diy icon out of the hands of the Diy'ers and set it in stone, so to speak...J.
wierd is right. I could see the image if I used the browser options to copy the image location and then put that into the address bar, surfing to the actual image page. But then my browser would cache the image giving the appearance that the image was loading when I clicked on the VA thread again. Funny thing is that the image would not load when I used the refresh button. I tried this with Firefox and then Opera. Same effect.Anyway, nice shot of the 501 internals. I imagine you had to search for that one.
$22k. That's "funny money". Makes a Shindo equipped 301 seem rational, by comparison.
-Steve
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