Garrard sp25's disco driver 80

While we are on the subject of old Garrard turntables,does anyone remember their direct drive disco turntable? it was more or less a copy of the early technics SL1300 (which of course later became the SL1200 with the slider pitch control,instead of the rotary ones).....Garrard introduced it shortly after their belt drive era...just after the Zero 100sb and 86sb and sp25 mk5....i cant remember the model number,it only seemed to be around for a year then vanished.....would have been around 1978-79 i reckon.


Edited by jbl_man - 13 January 2013 at 12:44pm

Well done Sir!  Yep that's the one Martin,they didnt seem to catch on, (maybe to expensive new?) so doubt if they sold many....people probually just paid the extra few quid and bought the Technics.




Edited by jbl_man - 13 January 2013 at 12:42pm

ollie80 wrote: Yes they were used in Radio stations for DJ idents wernt they.  Nice to have them on a mobile show.   Hi John! Did you have them specially recorded for you?  ie your name check etc?

Hi Unsound, welcome to the forum

You bagged the £54 'console' then, well done one of us anoraks was going to, I'd only for the SP's alone.

I'm sure there's a 'proper' way to do it, but I tend to:

Slide the whole counter weight towards the back of the arm, moving small amounts at a time until the headshell end lifts off the stay, then move the weight back until the whole arm is floating on the pivot point.

I then hold the silver part of the weight still while turning the black numbered bit around until the 0 (zero) is facing up. This gives you a fully balanced arm with zero weight on the stylus.

Then I turn the whole weight (silver and black bits together) back along the a towards the headshell until
2.5 is facing up - this gives you 2.5 grams weighting on the stylus.

In battle you may need more than 2.5 grams or get away with less, but that is console, club floor, music style and speaker location to console dependant....

unsound wrote: I did once see a sort of "gallows" arrangement.  The mobile operator had a frame about 7 feet high that was bigger than the console, and the console was suspended on string from teh frame.  Result - when oafs jumped about there was no lateral displacement so no jumping.  But changing the records and switching teh switches was tricky!

fairground rides used to hang the decks off bungees

Anyone interested in this? NJD twin deck. Sitting at £45 at the mo. Ends today, be quick, if you are...