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Thread: Garrard 401 now completed! ... and most of the bits for it off the forum :)

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    +1 to that Justin.

    Looks fabulous.

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    I'd concur with the last two posts Tom, the deck and plinth looks a well thought out and perfect match. Very complementary. Lovely!

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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    My god Tom you have achieved the impossible!

    I usually look at 401s in various plinths and the mismatch between the plinth styling and the deck makes them look goddam awful. However, piano black actually looks great Well discovered.
    Thanks Justin!

    Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L View Post
    Useful to know regarding the softness of the paint finish.
    To be fair it only arrived on Friday so it's barely dry I would guess, it may harden in the coming days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    Thanks Justin!



    To be fair it only arrived on Friday so it's barely dry I would guess, it may harden in the coming days.
    Keep us posted regarding that.
    Regards Neil

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    Beautiful finish. Looks really classy.

    If I could, I think I'd coat my entire flat in piano black
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    Fabulous looking piece of kit Tom
    Sexy 912 in the background!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    That AT tonearm is doing fabulously well with my stable of low compliance MC cartridges, SPU Royal N is very happy on this deck (with Angus's sleeve on the counterweight), the Miyajima Madake likewise.
    Yes it is a fine piece of engineering - I remember being very impressed when Angus had it on his Technics ...
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    I've just replaced the photobucket images with imgur ones - Photobucket has pulled the plug on free pic hosting, all my pics everywhere have simultaneously vanished.

    Well they aren't getting any money from me - been getting worse and worse in recent months anyway with popups and malware and requiring adblocker to be disabled before access is granted. I guess all good things come to an end and there's nothing free any more .. if they'd done it in a different way they might have got some cash off me but active wind-up followed by extortion is simply not on.

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    Try Microsoft OneDrive Tom. 5GB free and it works really quickly.

    To plant pictures in here you need to generate an embed code but that is easy enough to find and do. But it is still light years better than Photobucket.

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    Lovely looking 401, Tom.
    I messed around with platter mats on mine ... glass, cork, tenuto gunmetal, foam, neoprene, etc ... and eventually found I was actually quite content with the original hard rubber jobbie
    OTOH, something that did seem to make a significant improvement was not tightening up the mounting nuts on the deck ... just 'resting' it on the plinth, if you see what I mean.

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