My Garrard 301 journey... almost there.

[Bigbird]

Now you'll have to change your avatar Karl . . .

Congratulations on a lovely deck and hopefully a result you're after. Love the classic design and chunky controls.

Mad/brave, whatever but it takes guts to start over like that so fair play mate.

I don't doubt it will best the LP12, (in most ways) that arm is superb looking although I haven't heard one but they have an excellent rep and a real look of quality.

Christ, I will have to set aside a full evening to write a new avatar with all the changes going on over here. Thanks though mate.

Yeah it took a bit of bottle to go in blind but what’s the worse that can happen? I’m not blown away(highly unlikely) , and all this stuff I’ve bought is top gear so it sells itself pretty quickly if I wanted to try something else . I’m pretty confident this one will be around for a few years though . Ive gone all out and tried to make it end game spec


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[AJSki2fly]

Karl, it looks stunning, will be lovely to see it all set up and finished, very interested to hear what the listening experience is, I am sure it will be great.

[Bigbird]

Karl, it looks stunning, will be lovely to see it all set up and finished, very interested to hear what the listening experience is, I am sure it will be great.

Cheers mate . As soon as it’s up and running I will add my thoughts. I have a feeling it will be pretty special


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[graham67]

Wow, that looks amazing. Great job 😃

[Spectral Morn]

The Track Audio feet are excellent.

[Bigbird]

The Track Audio feet are excellent.

I can tell that they will be top , top quality. They weigh a bloody ton and a great design and they look bloody lovely too


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Bigbird]

Wow, that looks amazing. Great job

Cheers


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Ali Tait]

Another vote for the LDA supply, it's a great bit of kit.

The TT looks great, and with that arm should sounds fabulous. I have a NOS 401 in storage that I must sort out sometime- have a Sumiko The Arm to put on it, should be a decent sounding combo.

[Bigbird]

Another vote for the LDA supply, it's a great bit of kit.

The TT looks great, and with that arm should sounds fabulous. I have a NOS 401 in storage that I must sort out sometime- have a Sumiko The Arm to put on it, should be a decent sounding combo.

Oh great. I doubt you would have to do much to get her going. A regrease of linkages and fresh bearing oil/grease and a good dust and you’ll be off I reckon. Or worst case send it to ray for a peace of mind service and it will be good for another 50 years.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Idlewithnodrive]

That looks fabulous and will undoubtedly trounce your LP12.

I went from an LP12 to a modded Lenco, then to a 401, then to an SP-10 MkII, then finally (?) to a G99, which is where I'm sticking. The idlers came out top every time I haven't owned a 301 but the 401's bass and emotional connection to the music were jaw dropping, I'm sure you'll be well pleased with it.

Great work !