2/13/2023 0 Comments Garrard zero 100 plinth![]() My only experience of Garrards had been low end models in old radiograms or SP 25s, nothing that led me to believe that once upon a time Garrard had made some of the best decks in the world, sometime in the late eighties we started to hear of Japanese audiophiles paying "crazy money" for Garrard 301s. Personally I never bought into the Linn cult, Pink Triangles always sounded better and I fell in love with the Roksan Xerxes as soon as I heard it and soon bought one, but for the most part the only high end decks I could get to see and hear were belt drives. I'm not old enough to remember when idler drive decks ruled the hi fi kingdom, I started hanging out in hi fi shops and reading hi fi magazines at the start of the eighties, back then, in the UK at least, the Linn orthodoxy was in full effect and belt drives were considered the pinnacle of record deck evolution, idlers were old hat and not worth mentioning whilst eccentrics could always seek out the odd high end Japanese direct drive that sneaked past the Linn guardians.
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