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Key to manual types OPerating, SERvice, SCHematic only, ARTicle, PARTial, ADvertisement, ASSemblY, INSTructions only, DESCription, DATa, e or es Digitally Scanned. SlUE TimE SlUE EEEs. All your life you have paid too much fOJ. Re things you need for. The Argos system of shopping has changed. HiFi Blog New since Jan 2017, sections are Indexed. A Blog on HiFi, Audio, Tech HiFi News Mag 19701980 If youve just found our site, have a read of the Main. KA840yC7iKE.jpg' alt='Garrard Sp25 Mk Iii Manual' title='Garrard Sp25 Mk Iii Manual' />Hi Fi Myths Debunked Save Your Money. PAGE INDEX. TOP Turntables In Vintage, Turntables are as hard to buy as Speakers. Many Vintage Turntables beyond autochangers are clunky in use barely Hifi. The Dual Garrard budget midprice ones are not very well made with semi automatic mechanisms that are triggered by a lever on the arm hitting a point, so hardly free moving. Be sure Vintage turntables need Servicing which means taking apart to remove dried oil grease else the thing wont work right can stick or jump. Garrard SP2. 5 is a popular brand but these were very cheap new look it. Rumbly spindles, platters with a lot of play in the bearings if you can call them that the semi auto nonsense. They are entry level Audio items if never really Hifi quality. We had a Dual one that was rated an expensive model in about 1. SP2. 5 Mk III or IV that we are familar with. Nasty thing. As we state here the Technics direct drive Turntables are pretty good, after all the SL 1. SL 1. 21. 0 are DJ standard gear. For our Record Dealing, we only use our Garrard 3. SME for archiving, but the Technics SL 1. SME arms can need more careful handing, the SL 1. But with the Technics they are now 4. SL 1. 50. 0 is from 1. SL 2. 00. 0 one is best avoided as too early one we had the IC was faulty so it never was reliable for speed. The 1. 98. 0s spawned many turntables of midprice quality that were popular, the hair shirt 3. Linn are no good to us, we deal in 4. Belt drive turntables are best described as low end cheap motors, plastic platters other nasties such as plastic tomearms with spring weight balancing are well away from hifi be sure they sound awful. The Best Turntables are the early Idler Wheel ones or the Direct Drive type. No plastic platter or top casing that holds the platter arm is anything but cheap junk. Autochangers are usually not Hifi if a tiny few Transcription ones were made in the 1. Semi automatic Turntables are boderline Hifi, if the SL 1. SL 1. 50. The idea is metal casing, plastic base cover is ok, but belt drive plastic main parts are not worth having. Then there are the turntables with no arms fitted that we mention next. The Garrard 3. 01 4. Heavy platter, strong motor with an idler wheel. Set up right youll find no better even at 8. Read on. Poor Ideas In Turntables. There was a hair shirt craze in the 1. Turntables like the Transcriptor Saturn turntable that thought to leave the disc floating free just supported by a few rubber posts was a good idea. This is a Lousy Idea based on simple theory of playing a disc the disc must be damped as closely as possible to the turntable platter to avoid resonances. You dont need to go far as clamping the disc as itll rub the label. We use on The Garrard 3. The Technics SL 1. The record is well damped the sound is solid. But the Transcriptor Saturn just supports the disc mid air on a few posts. The disc can be tapped pushed to see its not damped at all. The Record is actually now a Sounding Board energy that the Stylus Cartridge should be turning into electrical energy is lost in the disc via the resonating disc. Be sure if you played a loud cut 4. But put it on a well damped turntable the Stylus Talk will be far less as the energy is directed to the Cartridge. The difference will be noticeable blurry sound undamped, tight solid sound with a properly damped turntable. Damped doesnt mean the more solid turntable eats the energy, its just that the disc is not flexing in the first place giving away energy. Technics SL 1. 50. Computer system is a direct drive, the same we used before getting a 3. The SL 1. 50. 0 is a nice deck to use for 1. The SL 1. 30. 0 is the autochanger version, 1. Ignore any foolish DJs who say to put the weight on backwards on these Technics decks. Bad advice only sheep believe. The way to get the correct tracking weight is easy. Set the anti stakebias to 0 and then with the full cartridge as you use it fitted, turn the weight clockwise gradually to get the arm to balance just hovering above the static turntable. This is therefore 0g so set the weight dial ring to 0 too then turn the whole weight anticlockwise to set the tracking, eg 2g. You can check it with scales if you wish. Then set the antiskate to about 1 to 1. Done. Putting the weight on backwards negates the whole ease of setting weve just described and hasnt any real benefit. The feet on this turntable are lousy with feeble weak rubber bouncy springs. The whole foot assembly is useless as without the lid, the turntable sits flat, but with it on, the front is higher using a spirit level the bubble is right to the side. What we did was fit solid rubber 2. Sorbothane pads on which keeps the turntable much more solid. Springs Turntables are a bad idea as springs bounce echo the bounce, even very slightly in use they oscillate. This means your amplifier can be taking in subsonic bass which can affect some amps, if most Phono stages are not fully extended on the bass for reasons of Rumble dating back to the 1. Low or Subsonic Filter. Low Filter is not the same as Low Pass filter. Adobe Photoshop Cs5 Crack V2. In 1. 97. 5, the last years of the similar Garrard 4. Zero model similar. It had no plinth or arm, but was about 5 1. The SL 1. 50. 0 arm is decent enough for the turntable though initially we found it sticking or jumping on records, but servicing it with fine adjusting its been perfect since. It is from 1. 97. Vinyl. Engine site a different arm can be fitted easily enough as the circular plinth area removes a blank one to fit an SME can be done, if wed say the original one serviced is good enough at the level of the player. Many earlier turntables have Dust Bugs, basically a plastic stick with a felt brush on it. Whats that for In the early days turntables were built into consoles dust being picked up was a problem in play, so why not rub the record with a mop run the dust around instead. Sounds crazy, but only by 1. The idea was you preened your LP put antistatic spray on it probably made a gooey mess of it. From the amount of Classical Vinyl weve seen, much is played twice grade, very rare to see a partied hard Classical LP if we have. Turntable mats are another thing. Those nasty BSR autochangers had hard plastic turntables that records were dropped onto, skidded until they caught friction leaving a circular scuff mark on the record. Others had rubber mats left a circular rubber mark on the vinyl that may remove. What we use is simple the original platter mat on both turntables but a Velvet slip mat that is perfect, both are old curtains but have suited for years as so perfect. Easy to cue up as a slip mat, easy to put on remove without fingernails scoring the vinyl at there is a dip in the mat still that wears in. The Foam professional slip mats antistat ones weve tried but nothing beats a bit of vintage cotton Velvet, not the synthetic stuff. Why Bother With Expensive Turntables A question youll never find answered, so well step up.