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Old 9th Nov 2012, 6:23 pm   #53
GP49000
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Default Re: Garrard record player deck identification.

THANKS, Michael. I did see a reference to the AP96 having the Synchro-Lab motor but by then, many Synchro-Labs no longer had the plate on the bottom that proclaimed their identity, so they looked like the regular induction motors. Did you happen to notice which motor it had?

I actually prefer the SL72B/AP76 arm to the SL95B/AP96.

As the thread progresses to Garrard's Unimech and "Delglide" models, I'm going to have less data to draw from. By the mid-1970s, Plessey dumped the longtime Garrard importer British Industries Corporation and went at it themselves, with less than sterling results. Garrard entered a period of decline in the USA which accelerated to a tailspin, so there just are not that many Garrards from the 1980s in the USA. First Dual became predominant as the industry's main source of automatics, and then along with the trend away from automatic turntables, the Japanese vanquished all the European brands and BIC's American models, built in Michigan by V-M (Voice of Music).

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