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The Best-Looking Garrard?

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The best-looking Garrard?

301
57
29%
401
42
21%
4HF
23
12%
Zero 100
43
22%
Lab 95
2
1%
Lab 95B
9
5%
Lab 80
24
12%
 
Total votes : 200

Re: The Best-Looking Garrard?

Postby JaS » 30 Nov 2011 21:32

jjohnstone wrote:I love the looks of my Zero 100:

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It's the nicest one I've seen :)

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Re: The Best-Looking Garrard?

Postby jjohnstone » 30 Nov 2011 21:53

It's the nicest one I've seen :)

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Thanks for the compliment! :D
It sounds very, very good, as well. Listening to it now.
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Re: The Best-Looking Garrard?

Postby mmarston » 24 Apr 2012 05:09

Old thread, I see, but what the heck?

Hammertone 301 has the most no-nonsense, "I mean business" appearance. 401 is stylishly modern without losing much industrial appeal. 4HF in its curved base has a lovely delicateness that would look right at home with overstuffed, antimacassar covered furniture in a 1950s parlor. And I have a distinct fondness for the look of my own 95B.

But 1964 was the year of my first Allied catalog. Of all the technological marvels contained in its pages, I likely spent the most idle daydreaming time gazing wistfully at the Lab 80's shining visage... Simply stunning in a Bond/Hefner way that a young boy could not resist, in spite of my Rek-O-Kut owning uncle's dismissal of "just another changer."

So perhaps I fell in love due to my impressionable age. But that later Zero arm always freaked me out a little...

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Re:

Postby totomatic » 26 Apr 2012 01:18

gillsev wrote:Honestly, I still have a crush on the Z2000B :oops:

If I could find a real good one, I would like to have this in my collection ...

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Similar to my 990b but with an s-shaped tonearm
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Re: The Best-Looking Garrard?

Postby Foxhound » 09 May 2012 21:02

jjohnstone wrote:
It's the nicest one I've seen :)

Regards,
JaS


Thanks for the compliment! :D
It sounds very, very good, as well. Listening to it now.


You deserve it! It`s a great looking turntable.

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Re: The Best-Looking Garrard?

Postby Zaimejs » 21 May 2012 20:59

I was really hoping to see more picts... especially of 301s and 401s. :( I voted for my own just because I'm a terrible person. 95B ... manly... the Tom Selleck of turntables... :)

Funny stuff there.
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