Re: Garrard record player deck identification.
The 1025T, 2025T and 3500
The 1025T and 2025T were updates of the 1025 and 2025. The only significant change was the tonearm. The cast aluminium tonearm of the 1025/2025 was replaced by the tubular tonearm previously introduced on the 2025TC. As the model numbers indicate, the 1025T and 2025T lacked a cueing device.
The 3500 supplemented the 3000 as the "high-performance" record changer with low-mass tubular tonearm. Where the 3000's arm was only partly counterbalanced and still required an upward-pulling spring to offset the weight of the tonearm tube, head and cartridge, the 3500 had a fully counterweighted, dynamically-balanced arm with tracking weight applied by a downward-pulling spring. However, for the first time in the Autoslim line, the 3500 lacked automatic record size selection. Instead of sensing the size of a record as it dropped to the platter, the 3500 required the user to select record size using a unified speed/size selector. The 3500 could play only 12" and 7" records at 33rpm, only 7" records at 45rpm, and only 10" records at 78rpm.
For manual play, the record-stabilizing overarm on the 3500 could be swung to the rear, out of the way for loading records on the platter.
The 3500 also had a cueing device, which the 3000 lacked.
The Garrard 3500 with a two-pole motor was found in better grade phonographs and radiograms such as the Bush A749, Sony HP-465 and Motorola SK220.
A version of the 3500 with four-pole induction/synchronous Synchro-Lab motor and integrated Pickering magnetic cartridge, pre-packaged with USA-sourced plinth and cover, was sold in the USA as the Garrard Module SLx.
A hybrid model, a 3500 chassis with two-pole motor, without automatic record size selection, but with the cueing and the cheaper tonearm of the 2025TC, was packaged with preinstalled ceramic cartridge and USA-sourced plinth and cover and sold in the USA as Module X-10.
3500, from Bush phonograph
3500 control panel
Module SLx (USA)
Module SLx (USA)
Module X-10 (USA)
Last edited by GP49000; 5th Nov 2012 at 11:30 pm.
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