The Garrard 301 Restoration Project PT LXXX - Moving Forward


Being a Garrard owner is bitter suite, on the one hand you own probably one of the greatest TT ever made and your TT will see you out if you can find a good example. On the other hand, developments are now few and far between. The 301 is now beyond its glory days of people developing new and amazing upgrades at reasonable prices in fact I don't think that there are any significant new developments for the 301. Any new development seems to come with a four figure price attached or five figures if your called Cadence . There are still a few things which I've not tried yet on the 301, mainly :-

1. DECO Audio Governor PSU.
2. Long Dog Audio PSU.
3. Hanzi HIFI PSU
4. Serene Record stabiliser
5. Russian Idler wheel.
6. A Permali/Panzerholz plinth

I do keep an eye out for reasonably priced second hand examples of the first five of the items on the list. I've tried three PSU's on my 301. These are the original motor and wall supplied electricty, the Nigels Speed Controller and finally the Pheonix Engineering system. Needless to say my favourite for some years has been the Pheonix system. I'll probably order and try the Serene record stabiliser and the Russian Idler wheel before the end of the year. Stay tuned....