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    Posted: 02 January 2013 at 10:06am
Hi Chaps,

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A question which ive been meaning to ask..  What was the difference between a Garrard SP25 and a Garrard SP25 disco driver 80?  Question

Im guessing they are both belt driven.  Was the platter / motor more beefier in the disco driver 80?  Im a right in saying the disco driver 80 is called an 80 because it was released 1979/80?

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Martin will probually know the definative answer to this.

The earlier SP25 MK 3 was idler wheel driven. (rumble city!)

Both SP 25MK 4 and disco driver are belt driven.

SP25 MK4 had a semi-auto function (arm took itself of record and back to arm rest after track finished,and switched off turntable,really annoying function,which i used to "disable" by removing the toothed gear wheel under the platter).

Disco driver was completely manual.(no auto function) It also had a better arm if i remember.

Citronic CL300 is better than both in my opinion,much superior "S" arm.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ollie80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 January 2013 at 11:25am
Hey JBL, thanks very much for reply.  

I used to have two SP25 mk4 built into a custom console.  One of the sp25s came from a dynatron music centre.. The other one was sourced from a single deck seperate.

haha yes the semi auto function, even at a young age I used to place the stylus manually on the record!  Clap 

So I guess Garrard entered the disco market propery with the disco driver 80
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Yes Ian I know the answer to this one having piles of them around at the moment

SP25 Mk 3  idler drive semi auto deck
SP25 MK 4  (IV) idler drive  semi auto
SP25 MK 5,6  were belt drive

On deck fitted into disco console all the semi auto was diasbled normally by removing a cogged wheel under the platter

the Disco driver was a purpose built deck for disco use   Built by Garrard after BSR got in there first with the horrible plastic ones
The Disco driver 80 came out in 1980  and was a stripped down version of the SP25 MK 6
No auto mechanism at all  no controls only speed  If you look at one the chassis is the same as a SP25  with plastic panels covering up the holes in the top panels
My favorite deck was the DD80  although the cartridge sliders were a problem especially in hot swetty venues The  DD80`s were labelled 36SB   underneath i think    The same turntable as a 35SB a more upmarket SP25

When I get 5 minutes I will do some pics of the difference between the SP25 mk 5,6 and Disco driver 80 /36SB
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ollie80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 January 2013 at 4:20pm
Hiya Martin!! Thanks so much for the answers you have given!!  Clap

Will love to see the pics too.  Thanks a billion 
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Still reckon that the MII was the best built of the lot.
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agreed tony screw off head shell first decks i ever had dark green in colour
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used to strip sp25's levers linkages etc so they worked like dd's
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The Garrard part number fro the Disco driver is 126SB not 36sb as I put earlier
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in fact i remember seeing some consoles of the time fitted with 126sb's,if i remember looked like a sp25 til you got closer then some subtle differences,the arm weight and a different silver t/table centre on the t/table mat,silly how some things stick in your mind
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Originally posted by mostyn mostyn wrote:

in fact i remember seeing some consoles of the time fitted with 126sb's,if i remember looked like a sp25 til you got closer then some subtle differences,the arm weight and a different silver t/table centre on the t/table mat,silly how some things stick in your mind


that would have been a 125Sb  they were very similar to the Sp25 mk 5  as you say the weight and the number near the start controls etc
Ive got some Garrard catalogs somewhere will scan them when I can find the old scanner and post them up
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ollie80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 January 2013 at 5:10pm
Originally posted by Mhamplification Mhamplification wrote:

Originally posted by mostyn mostyn wrote:

in fact i remember seeing some consoles of the time fitted with 126sb's,if i remember looked like a sp25 til you got closer then some subtle differences,the arm weight and a different silver t/table centre on the t/table mat,silly how some things stick in your mind


that would have been a 125Sb  they were very similar to the Sp25 mk 5  as you say the weight and the number near the start controls etc
Ive got some Garrard catalogs somewhere will scan them when I can find the old scanner and post them up


Br great to see those catalogs!  It funny, whilst growing up all the turntables I was exposed to were Garrard SP25s!  My dads Dynatron music centre (MK4), my first FAL disco console (MKIIIs), and custom console MK4 from the Dynatron and another MK4 from a separtes deck
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