#Garrard Zero 100 Turntable Install The Filtered#

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Eventually the same tweaks can be successfully applied to other turntables, especially of the vintage kind.Before you start modifying your Zero 100 SB you should restore it to its original conditions.First of all clean and lube it with high quality spray oil, such as the one used for guns care and lubing. In case you have missed these, please take a look at our Listening tests section.Into this article you'll find some tweaks I've applied to this turntable in order to improve its sonic performances. A vintage garrard electric.Garrard Zero 100 SB turntable - TNT Limited Edition Various tweaks You may have read the other two articles dedicated to the Garrard Zero 100 SB turntable and already published here on TNT-Audio.

Garrard Zero 100 Turntable Install The Filtered

Even an electronic AC voltage stabilizer could work well. The reason why the Merlino CAN'T be used throughout (that is, till the motor terminals) is that this shielded cable is heavy and stiff and it may literally destroy the free play of the floating subchassis.If this happens you can say bye-bye to the good sound of this turntable: more precisely it is the bass range that completely disappears.A further improvement could be the installation of a shielded isolation transformer (1:1) between the turntable and the wall socket. Leave the cable long enough so that it can follow a smoooooth curve from the motor to the socket.Now, just to not destroy the good effects of the filter, use a shielded power cord like our DIY Merlino mains cable. Cut a hole in the wood cabinet of the turntable and install the filtered socket.Do not cut the power cable too short!!! Otherwise the cable from the motor to the IEC socket will interact with the floating subchassis.

It is made of two pieces of weak plastic, sliding one into the other. There's nothing you can do about it, except change the bearings with something custom built following strict tolerances.Another weak spot is the cartridge shell. I can't recommend using expensive cables, remember the old Latin saying: Est modus in rebus (sounds a bit like sonus faber, uh? :-))The weak spot of the Zero arm is its complex system of shafts and bearings. You are free to use any other interconnect with a good price/value ratio, it's up to you to choose. The key is to use a very light and flexible interconnect here, otherwise it could interact (again) with the floating subchassis free play.Since I wanted this tweaks session to be as cheap as it could be I've choosen a Monster Cable Interlink 200 interconnects. But don't fret: the anti-RFI filter and the special mains cable make wonders to the sound of this turntable.Interconnecting the Zero to the outside worldThe Zero arm has a very, very nice feature: two easy-to-use RCA terminations so that you can easily hook up any kind of interconnects without messing around with the soldering gun or fancy DIN connectors.

Say what? The white blocks in the picture don't seem of the graphite kind? You bet! They're cheap clones right from TNT-Audio.but this is matter for another tweaks article (don't ask, it'll be on-line soon).In order to install the tip toes firmly under the cabinet you should use a tiny amount of blue-tac (again!).The 3 toes are strictly necessary, you can't avoid these. Yes, the graphite blocks should be placed under the tip toes, see again the picture for details. Too radical of a tweak.Why not some blue-tac then? Just put a tiny strip of blue-tac in front of the shell, so that the two parts can't move or vibrate (see the picture for an idea, the blue-tac I've used is yellow, actually :-) ).The key here is the amount of the damping material, which has to be as little as possible, and the precision of the placement: an uneven placement of the blue-tac may cause the arm to be slightly unbalanced.we're talking about mg's here!!!The subchassis and the cabinet First step:Let's start with the simpler things first: place three pin points (brass or steel, as you prefer) and three graphite blocks (ART, Audio Tekne.) under the turntable.

Otherwise the Garrard can be the analogue player you were looking for your records collection.Are you asking about a cartridge? There's no need to spend much more than 100$: take a look at the Grado catalogue, you'll find something that will make your records happy for the years to come.Warning: in case you aren't sure you're skilled enough leave the turntable as is.modifying such a complex and delicate machine without knowing exactly where to put your hands on is the shortest way to destroy it.Also, let me add that these tweaks aren't just plain simple 'add some blue-tac here and there' operations: they come out from several months of trials and errors and a couple of these tweaks (the TNT Janus mat, for example) have been designed precisely for this turntable, even if they work well with different players.Tweaking a turntable isn't an easy task: do something wrong and it will sound worse, forcing you to start again from.Zero (pun intended :-) ).