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pidge22
12-01-2019, 12:19
* Looking for a quality Garrard 301 or 401 as a birthday present for my 60th!
* Ideally with a decent tonearm & cartridge fitted
* Ideally plinth needs to be "Layers of Beauty" type (and the smaller the better)
* Ideally serviced by one of the experts (Loricraft CTC or Bastin)
* Can collect within 100 miles or so of Nottingham
vinylspinner
12-01-2019, 12:31
Afternoon Paul.

Pm sent ref: 401


Nigel
pidge22
14-01-2019, 20:24
Still looking...
Cotlake
15-01-2019, 11:40
PM sent.
Monty
15-01-2019, 13:26
PM sent.
I have this grey grease bearing 301 available, here are some pics.
http://oi67.tinypic.com/72x8us.jpg
http://oi66.tinypic.com/dma89g.jpg
http://oi68.tinypic.com/20tjfo8.jpg
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2lxf0xh.jpg
Shuffler
15-01-2019, 18:30
Northwest Analogue, your neck of the woods?
pidge22
17-01-2019, 20:10
Still looking
pidge22
19-01-2019, 18:45
Now all sorted thanks....
montesquieu
19-01-2019, 20:22
Now all sorted thanks....

What did you buy in the end?
pidge22
19-01-2019, 20:41
What did you buy in the end?

A recently fully refurbished CTC cream Garrard 301 with oversized platter...Carl Ellis birch ply plinth,SME 3009r tonearm & Ortofon MC Vivo Blue cartridge....thought the Garrard would be playing second fiddle to the LP12 but both myself & my wife are blown away with it...
montesquieu
19-01-2019, 20:50
A recently fully refurbished CTC cream Garrard 301 with oversized platter...Carl Ellis birch ply plinth,SME 3009r tonearm & Ortofon MC Vivo Blue cartridge....thought the Garrard would be playing second fiddle to the LP12 but both myself & my wife are blown away with it...

you'll be flogging the old fruitbox in no time ... I had mine for 20 years.
pidge22
19-01-2019, 20:57
you'll be flogging the old fruitbox in no time ... I had mine for 20 years.

No doubt the 301 is going to give the LP12 a run for its money far more than I expected but will keep both ....best of both worlds...
WESTLOWER
19-01-2019, 22:56
No doubt the 301 is going to give the LP12 a run for its money far more than I expected but will keep both ....best of both worlds...

My top spec LP12 didn’t hang around once the Garrard idler laid it’s charms on me..