Unfortunatelly in spite of the careful refurbishment, there are left some litle “fault”/“injury”: If you would like to see photos, I made a lot during the refurbishment, and uploaded them to Google Photos. The counter weight, the switch selector button, and the ring on the top of the tonearm tower was oxidized, so i polished them by hand, and I repainted the sides of the switch selector button. Of course I’ve got the original mat and the original cables as well. (The idea is from the TNT-Audio-s website, where you can read some information about the Garrard Zero 100 SB model, which is the belt drive version of the Zero 100 S, so everthing else is the same, link below) Although these are 4-5mm-s together, there is a litle triangular shape “washer” (the carrier and the pickup came to me together with this “washer”) which tilts forward the pickup a bit, and fortunatelly this results that the top of the pickup is nearly paralel with the surface of the vinyl, if you use this mat. I made a DIY turntable mat from sef adhasive tar damping material and cork. I think they were right, but these sockets were in bad condition, so I replace them with new ones. The engineers tought that it is a good idea to place a pair of RCA socket on the end of the arm cable, just because of this it is very simple to change the interconnect cable. The RCA plugs on both side are made by Kácsa Audio (a best quality brand here in Hungary, Link below). I tried Chord Crimson cables (you can see in the pictures, the red ones), but it wasn’t flexible enough here. For the interconnect I chose Van Damme (268-006-000, link below) cable. I changed the power cable, and the RCA interconnect cable. I enveloped the inside of the plastic chassis with tar damping material to decrease the resonance frequency of the chassis. The paint flaked off some spot on the black frame (who the h*ll was who told that painted plastic is a good idea, instead of materially black plastic.), so I repainted it with matt black lacquer.
The aluminium frame was scratched, so a professional rebrushed it. I bought a new dustcover (custom made), because it came to me without it. That means I took apart every moving parts, cleaned with IPA, and relubed it before I reassembled it (there was some tricky parts). It was in poor condition.Įven if you wouldn’t like to read the whole description, it is recommended, to read the NOTES below! I uploaded photos whiches I took after the refurbisment, and some whiches I took before the refurbishment. It is fully working! You can find about this turntable a lot of information and description in the internet, for example on Vinylengine’s site (Link below), so I won’t write about it. Here is my Garrard Zero 100S turntable for sale, which is in a very good condition, as you can see in the pictures.