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The white paper on the Garrard Lab 80, written by the engineer who designed the 401, states that it was designed to be the best turntable they could make first, then the automation part was added. My Rec-O-Kut Rondine B12 was a direct competitor to the Garrard 301. In a 1960's Audio Magazine...

Thanks for the warm welcomes. Dave

A 301 is made for broadcast use and is designed to run under heavy use. However, I doubt they'd sound any better. You do get to choose your own arm with a 301/401/501.

The Lab 80 was built to be the best automatic turntable Garrard could build, and was referred to as an automatic transcription turntable. It is heavy built, with close to a 6 pound platter and a largish super-quiet motor with a clever rubber isolation system to reduce rumble. I replaced the...

Rek-)-Kut broadcast turntable with Grado arm and Grado Blue cartridge, and Infinity Black Widow with ADC-LXM cartridge

circa 1966 Garrard Lab 80 mkI transition with Shure V15 RS (V15VxMR with hyper-elliptical stylus).

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Turntable #2: Rek-O-Kut with Grado arm and Grado Blue cartridge, and Infinity Black Widow arm and ADC-LXM cartridge. ROK-crop-1-mc by hurdy_gurdyman posted Jul 15, 2018 at 5:50 PM

IMGP6770-cc-mc by hurdy_gurdyman posted Jul 15, 2018 at 5:35 PM Circa 1966 Garrard Lab 80 mkI transition model with Shure V15 RS (V15VxMR, only with hyper-elliptical stylus instead of micro-ridge). Most would be surprised just how good this old idler-drive can sound. It's a keeper. Dave

Greetings. I'm Dave and new to this forum, but have been on many forums since about the year 2000. More into audio, but am slowly improving my video experience. I confess, I'm a Netflix and Amazon Prime junkie. Dave