Re: Garrard record player deck identification.
I had an 86SB with the Synchro-Lab motor. To be honest, I never liked belt-drive turntables. They take too long to get up to speed. The cartridge slide was always unreliable, needing removing and refitting if the machine was left longer than a few days between uses.
I replaced it with a direct drive turntable (SoundLab far-Eastern SL1210-lookalike; not bad but nothing special; generic magnetic cartridge that will track anywhere from 0.5 g. up to 4 g.) when the automatic mechanism became temperamental, probably due to solidified grease, and it wouldn't even let me play records manually. It's still up in my loft somewhere.
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