Garrard 301 - Project

Lalitk, That does look MUCH more stable. Good choice. 350 LPs is roughly 10% of my LP collection (though I estimate 3000 LPs, not 3500). I’ve got LPs stored in 3 locations on the first floor of our house in two antique cabinets and on some bookshelves in a corner of our library, with LPs displayed on edge, and the bulk are in the basement, in two big cabinets, one of which is the flip type and the other of which displays (about 900) LPs on edge. I found that once the flip type cabinet is nearly full, it is not so easy to "flip" LPs to find what I am looking for (jazz vocal LPs stored in alphabetical order according to artist, flip style). I have come to prefer storing on edge; I sometimes use a LED flashlight to find what I am looking for in the rather dim ambient light, but once you know you are in the right place in the alphabet, it is not so hard to find what you’re after. It took 40+ years and the death of my closest audiophile friend from whom I inherited about 800 LPs I selected from his collection of 6000, to get to ~3000.

@tomic601 Received the photos. Thank you. Audiogon can wait until the fishing season is over. All in good time. 

“350 LPs is roughly 10% of my LP collection”

@lewm

Thanks for sharing your story and I am sorry to hear about your friend.
40+ years; I can only imagine many sought after jewels and personal favorites in your prized collection. You obviously have been at this much longer than that I have…I do not intend to buying every new record even though it’s very hard to resist at times. I’ve been there with cassette’s , CD’s, DVD, Blu-ray’s and 4K discs. For past few years, I’ve been very selective with physical media. Thanks to my streaming system, which is pretty darn good and helps me tremendously to not open my wallet for every new record being released.

Streaming has open doors to so many incredible musicians and their music. Wish there was enough hours in a day to enjoy more music regardless of how we choose to play or listen.

BTW, yesterday was a fun day setting up my new TT. Still long ways to go as far fine-tuning, new challenges as far TT isolation (getting some feedback from subs) but I’m off to good start…Garrard 301, Reed 3P, Etsuro Bordeaux, and Allnic H-6500 appears to have good synergy and potential. 

@noromance @jperry @mdalton @fsonicsmith 

301 is up and running for past 6 days. It does sound pretty darn good with $15K tonearm/cart combo. Love the classic industrial appearance. I am still getting acclimated with its strengths and flaws in stock form and maybe jumping the gun here but I feel this is not a TT that sounds best in its stock form. The inherent vibration or energy from motor and plinth was out of control. I got it tamed for most part by isolating the plinth with IsoAcoustics mini pucks. I realize, a better isolation solution is probably the next step but what can or should do next to eliminate or reduce inherent vibrations. Perhaps, a aftermarket bearing, platter, idler wheel or even a better, denser plinth. 

Appreciate your input. 

Put plinth first on your list that includes platter, bearing, and idler wheel, and I think you’re on the right track.