Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
The DD sold new for 200 List, back in 1980. This is where a good entry level table was positioned. There were cheaper ones available. So the DD is a decent step into vinyl.
The Zero was a top offering by Garrard in the mid-70s. This one will need some serious mechanical clean up of all the old, dried grease.
You also got two cartridges with styli. Looks like an Empire and a Shure. Both decent but the condition of the stylus needs to be determined. Both tables can use either cartridge so if one has a bent stylus, you can use the other one.
I'd clean up the DD, grab the exploded parts view and the manual for the DD75 (there isn't one for the 132) and use that manual to set up the 132. Most any basic turntable manual will walk you through setting it up and with the DD, not knowing how to align the cartridge, I would get one of the protractors off VE and use that to position the cartridge.
I'll stop here so you can grab the documents and get a handle on this before you ask a few questions about what you want to do next. If you can find model numbers on the cartridges (2000 on the bottom of the Empire, green stylus is a 2000E/I, can't tell about the Shure) you can find that info in the library at VE or in the database (switch to cartridge db on that page) to fine tracking force.
As to value, any good, decent working tt with a good dust cover is worth a c-note these days and it is going up by the hour. You say the DD works...the 100 will take work but might be great. a c-note gift for the twins would be well received. But folks will tell you that you can find these DD type tables on CL for much less which is true but you have to find it not have it delivered trunk to trunk from a friend.
The Zero was a top offering by Garrard in the mid-70s. This one will need some serious mechanical clean up of all the old, dried grease.
You also got two cartridges with styli. Looks like an Empire and a Shure. Both decent but the condition of the stylus needs to be determined. Both tables can use either cartridge so if one has a bent stylus, you can use the other one.
I'd clean up the DD, grab the exploded parts view and the manual for the DD75 (there isn't one for the 132) and use that manual to set up the 132. Most any basic turntable manual will walk you through setting it up and with the DD, not knowing how to align the cartridge, I would get one of the protractors off VE and use that to position the cartridge.
I'll stop here so you can grab the documents and get a handle on this before you ask a few questions about what you want to do next. If you can find model numbers on the cartridges (2000 on the bottom of the Empire, green stylus is a 2000E/I, can't tell about the Shure) you can find that info in the library at VE or in the database (switch to cartridge db on that page) to fine tracking force.
As to value, any good, decent working tt with a good dust cover is worth a c-note these days and it is going up by the hour. You say the DD works...the 100 will take work but might be great. a c-note gift for the twins would be well received. But folks will tell you that you can find these DD type tables on CL for much less which is true but you have to find it not have it delivered trunk to trunk from a friend.
