Garrard 100-SB (circa 1975)
Not much information on the Garrard 100-SB survives, and most of what does is advertising rather than independent review. Garrard's own campaign in HiFI-Stereo (February 1975, p.31) - repeated in High-Fidelity (July 1975, p.100) - presented the "Zero 100SB" at $209.95 as one of a new line of single-play turntables only a great changer company could have made. The pitch was that Garrard's years of automatic-changer expertise had been applied to the engineering problems of a serious single-play deck, avoiding the awkward compromises of lesser designs. The ad gave no detailed specifications. The price alone put the model well above the $159.95 Garrard would ask for the Model 86SB a year later.
The most useful independent reference is in Audio (July 1976, p.60). A review of the 86SB there noted that it, like the Z-100-SB, used belt drive with no variable speed, and that basic performance seemed very close between the two. So the 100-SB appears to have been a belt-driven single-play turntable without pitch control. No manual, measured specifications or production dates have turned up in the usual archives.
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