Garrard 3000

The Garrard 3000 is a thinly documented record changer. Garrard's own stand at a 1964 show advertised the "3000LM" version - a fully automatic changer with a low-mass pickup arm, sold on feather-light tracking that minimized record wear and an absence of resonance. The same year, a directory listing described the 3000LM as a four-speed changer (16⅔, 33⅓, 45, and 78 rpm) that could intermix 7", 10", and 12" records of the same speed in any order. Audio (1968, p.62) carried the show-floor promotion.

The technical record, from equipment databases, gives the basics. It's an idler-wheel drive with a 4-pole induction motor, a die-cast aluminum platter, and a static-balanced tonearm. It handles up to six records in a stack. Rated wow and flutter is 0.2%, with rumble at −40 dB. Dimensions are 400 × 330 × 130 mm and it weighs 4.5 kg.

That's about where the documentation ends. There's no confirmed production run, no original price, and no record of where it sat in the 3000 series relative to the 3001 and 3002. No owner reviews or service notes have surfaced either. It appears to have been a budget-oriented changer, but cartridge fitment, outputs, and the base finish are not recorded.

Known specs:

- Speeds: 33⅓ and 45 rpm

- Idler-wheel drive, 4-pole induction motor

- Die-cast aluminium platter

- Static-balanced tonearm

- Changer capacity: 6 records

- Wow and flutter: 0.2%; rumble: −40 dB

- 400 × 330 × 130 mm; 4.5 kg