24-Mar-2016, 20:18
(24-Mar-2016, 18:23)Confused Wrote:(24-Mar-2016, 17:10)f1eng Wrote: IME price is a poor indicator of SQ, more an indicator of what item is in or out of fashion at any given moment. Sadly almost everything to do with "vinyl" has become very expensive, A Garrard 401 cost around £70 new.
Good luck and have fun.
£70 in the late 60's is roughly equivalent to the price of a Rega RP6 or Pro-Ject Xperience today. Which is the better product by the standards of the day? Subject to debate I guess!
£70 when I was a Garrard is about £350 today according to inflation checker on't internet. Mind you it would need an arm and my SME 3009 II Improved was about £30, so a Garrard 401 with SME arm, which was close to state of the art then should be about £500 now. The Rega is about double that and far from SOTA IMHO.
People are paying far more than £350 for an old 401 nowadays.
Mind you when we checked competitors products, bought from dealers so not "tuned up" like review samples, we listened, measured and costed them. Linn were charging about £300 for the LP12 back then, fashion again since our production engineers felt it was cheaper to make than the 401 which is frankly obvious by inspection. OTOH there was no way we could have made a Technics SP10 (I bought the evaluation one of them from the scrap man, in bits, for £12) at any price at that time.
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