Between them, Garrard's 301 and 401 covered the golden age of the LP. Ken Kessler has the definitive guide to these desirable decks Under 65? A vinyl addict of the post-Linn persuasion? Then don't go poring over old hi-fi magazines, books or yearbooks. It will only aggravate your ulcer because, if the amount of wordage given to what they quaintly used to refer to as 'motor units' is any indication, they didn't think much of turntables back then. In the 1950s and 1960s, audio hobbyists didn't listen to turntables per se. Hi-fi 'how to' books and yearbooks gave tens of pages to cartridges (or 'heads' or 'pick-ups') but only two or three pages for the decks themselves. They thought that the cartridge was responsible for, oh, let's say 99% of the job of carrying the signal from the groove to the phono stage. The 'motor unit' and arm? Necessary only to rotate the disc and carry the pick-up.
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