The table will work without it but it's purpose is supposedly to suppress noise while the turntable cycles. With one of mine it was nonexistent and with the other, the ring had broken apart and bits of it were down inside with the bearing. Garrard Zero 100 SB turntable Garrard Zero 100 SB turntable History, availability and restoration Garrard Labs was a Company that between the 60s and the 80s designed and built many turntables and some of these are considered, even today, nice examples of high precision craftsmanship and of a serious think different approach. That is where the O ring should be or should have been. You should see a notch around it's circumference a little above the gear teeth. One thing that was brought to my attention was the rubber O ring (or absence thereof) for the platter stem. Some feel it's a POS.Ĭould be that my final pared down array will be that Zero 100, my original issue Dual 1009 and the Pioneer PL-630 I traded five turntables for. It would not bother me one bit if a Zero 100 was the only turntable I had as I like everything about it. It's finished with stainless steel not badly replicated wood grain and has the Garrard name embossed on the front. It too has a factory base but unlike any I've seen and I intend on keeping that base with the table. Was listening to my 2nd one last night with an old Shure M93E and it sounded wonderful. The factory base and dustcover were ditched being the cheesiest aspect of the turntable. The shop's owner immediately made a new base from stained veneer over plywood and it looked awesome. I wound up including my first one in a lot of five turntables that I traded for one. I think most vintage turntable buyers these days are novices and probably warded off by the negative opinions posted about Zero 100's. Duals outnumber them by a significant margin. There aren't too many Zero 100's out there.
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