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The Vinyl Adventure
17-02-2011, 12:51
A nice old dear has just popped in the sop and i asked me if her Garrard 125sb in some sort of side board is likely to be worth anything...
i said id find out for her ...
The Grand Wazoo
17-02-2011, 12:59
One sold on Ebay back in November for £155

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Garrard-125SB-Turntable-Classic-1970s-Retro-Audio-/160509909449#ht_1258wt_1139
The Grand Wazoo
17-02-2011, 13:02
There could be amps and a tuner in that there sideboard too..........
(probably a crappy receiver unit though)
The Vinyl Adventure
17-02-2011, 13:16
i think im going to go and look at it for her
she wants to buy something more modern and was looking as a sony pslx300usb :doh:
i think i might insist she keeps it! :)

nice looking table that ebay one!
Beobloke
22-02-2011, 11:39
One sold on Ebay back in November for £155

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Garrard-125SB-Turntable-Classic-1970s-Retro-Audio-/160509909449#ht_1258wt_1139

It's a nice old turntable that can turn in a half decent performance but £155? The world truly has gone mad..... :rolleyes:
DSJR
22-02-2011, 12:55
Too little too late for Garrard by then, as the Pioneer PL12D ruled the waves (before Rega waived the rules, or summat ;))

The 125SB had much reduced rumble over the idler driven groove-manglers I'm playing with. The arm was a mixture of good and bad, the reduced friction and (further?) improved auto mech being compromised by the arm's rigidity, or slight lack of it from a 'Choice review.

If you can persuade madame to keep it all, a change of cartridge to an AT95E or 100E from the supplied Shure 75-6S (or whatever equivalent Garrard used) may offer an improvement in this particular case - the arm will track at 1.75g unlike the earlier SP25's.

I'd put a good plinthed 125SB at around £30 tops myself, the PL12D being plentiful and much better, if not as good as a Rega or Pro-ject IMO.
dantheman91
07-10-2016, 19:04
Just and 125SB to play with it needs a new belt it runs but the belt is slack also needs a good clean but i think it will be OK ones up and running.

was £10....

one of their better efforts some say others may not my first deck was a zero 100SB so this one will hold some memories...:)