Bargains on ebay?

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Originally Posted by Macca

collection only will keep the price down

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Indeed - but we have got several members in and around London... though I wouldn't want to lug that on the tube!

The JRS100 was the weedy one - we sold loads of these and it was better than the increasingly grey sounding (IMO) Yamaha's and tizzy Technics equivalents..

The ones to look out for are the bigger, rarer and more powerful JRS400 and 600 models. I haven't a clue how they'd stack up today, but they were naughty looking things at the time :)

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Originally Posted by DSJR

The JRS100 was the weedy one - we sold loads of these and it was better than the increasingly grey sounding (IMO) Yamaha's and tizzy Technics equivalents..

The ones to look out for are the bigger, rarer and more powerful JRS400 and 600 models. I haven't a clue how they'd stack up today, but they were naughty looking things at the time :)

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I don't care how they sound - blue power meters! :drool:

('s ok, I know I'm superficial & shallow!)

That is a lovely piece of kit.

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Originally Posted by Jonboy

really pissed off, I lost a radiogram earlier that only made £25 because ebay is on a go slow with my phone so my bid got froze, I had no access to pc at work. :doh:

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As an aside, has anyone bought a nice old wooden radiogram and stuck modern equipment in it? Failing that, take one of those old receivers and stick a media / server PC in it. Old and the new. This is all assuming the hardware is kaput and the shell is still nice looking.

someone got a bargain

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GARRARD-30...item43a8473367

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Originally Posted by Jonboy

someone got a bargain

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GARRARD-30...item43a8473367

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Taken in toto, that's about the going rate these days: £125 each for the arm and the cartridge, leaving £425 for the 301.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Taken in toto, that's about the going rate these days: £125 each for the arm and the cartridge, leaving £425 for the 301.

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i was thinking about the grease bearing models :doh:, they seen to be up at around a grand and then some

£425 is still a bit light, I reckon - usually go nearer £700 I think.

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Originally Posted by Jonboy

i was thinking about the grease bearing models :doh:, they seen to be up at around a grand and then some

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I didn't read the listing carefully enough: the cartridge was not included. That makes about £550 for the deck alone.

Garrard 301s are really getting expensive these days. I certainly wouldn't pay that amount.

I never could understand why the original grease bearing versions fetch so much. Garrard redisigned the bearing - replacing it with an oil lubricated one following requests from the BBC. Apparently, with the advent of stereo LPs, the grease bearing versions were found to have too much rumble!

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Originally Posted by Barry

Garrard 301s are really getting expensive these days. I certainly wouldn't pay that amount.

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I think we can blame our friends from the East for that along with a lot of other classic stuff