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julie_m · 1st Dec 2012, 6:38 am

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.

1st Dec 2012, 6:38 am	#70
julie_m Dekatron Join Date: May 2008 Location: Derby, UK. Posts: 7,735	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. __________________ If I have seen further than others, it is because I was standing on a pile of failed experiments.