Post by Owen Y on Nov 21, 2019 9:51:02 GMT 12
Last May 2018, we noted that SME announced that they had purchased the rights to the GARRARD brand.
STEREOPHILE's Art Dudley has had one of the new production GARRARD 301s at home for a thorough audition, fitted with a SME M2-3012R tonearm.
" ...the new 301 package presented a sound... with all of the traditional Garrard 301 strengths—drive, impact, crazily convincing musical momentum—and then some. It was every inch a Garrard 301, and indeed was the best, most effective sample of it that I've ever had in my home. "
(If I was a 301 owner, I'd be diving under my 301 right now, to loosen those mounting bolts.
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" Now for a bit of disappointing news: The new Garrard 301, with SME M2-12R tonearm and custom plinth, carries a retail price of (US)$23,500. "
STEREOPHILE's Art Dudley has had one of the new production GARRARD 301s at home for a thorough audition, fitted with a SME M2-3012R tonearm.
" ...the new 301 package presented a sound... with all of the traditional Garrard 301 strengths—drive, impact, crazily convincing musical momentum—and then some. It was every inch a Garrard 301, and indeed was the best, most effective sample of it that I've ever had in my home. "
(If I was a 301 owner, I'd be diving under my 301 right now, to loosen those mounting bolts.
)" Now for a bit of disappointing news: The new Garrard 301, with SME M2-12R tonearm and custom plinth, carries a retail price of (US)$23,500. "
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