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Old 27th Feb 2014, 8:44 am   #137
GP49000
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Default Re: Garrard record player deck identification.

I quite agree. The 3500 was a simplification of the well-proven Autoslim chassis (auto record size select was deleted) featuring a nice, fully balanced low-mass tonearm with diecast tonearm body and precision vertical-motion pivots. The 6-300 with its unbalanced arm and "shaft in plastic" pivots was from the Unimech line, an attempt by Garrard to build a record changer at an ever-lower cost by adapting the mechanism of the cheap CC10 minichanger. One problem when one adapts something cheap into something to sell at a higher price, is that often it still feels and performs like its cheap ancestor. The Unimech models certainly do feel and perform below their Autoslim predecessors.
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