
I've been told that it was one of the worst Garrard turntable models made, with plastic parts that are prone to breakage (none of which have broken for me, BTW), and a tendency to miss the edge of the record when in automatic mode. My first truly working turntable was a Garrard 730m, which needed a new stylus at first, but once it was replaced it worked fairly well. My first turntables were BSR record changers built into '70s Emerson tabletop stereo systems, none of which worked very well. In the few years that I've been listening to records, I've gone through a bunch of turntables. Unlike most people my age, I listen to records far more often than I do CDs, I have a small collection of vinyl (mostly classic rock, but some other types of music as well).


Bang & Olufsen Beogram 1700 (since sold).
