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Today I picked up a Garrard Model MRM-101 "Music Recovery Module". Active processor of some sort with din "In", RCA's "In", RCA's "Out", and ground post. Made in England. I have to mess with this thing tomorrow. Anybody ever seen one or heard of them?
 
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I remember hearing one years ago. Tends to dull the music, and doesn't do much for really loud scratches or pops, but may be worth it with some records.
 
These where designed to remove clicks and pops from LP record playback and it is supposed to do a reasonably good job. Garrard intended to miniaturize the circuit and incorporate it into their turntables but that never happened so it rapidly became a orphan. According to Garrard turntable forums the real value of the MRM-101 is it has just about the best phone stage amp ever made. The MRM-101 impulse noise reduction
circuit ( the pop and click filter) required a flat frequency response and linear phasing from around 10Hz to 100-200kHz to work. You have yet another device that the CD killed. The click and pop filtering can be done much better today with Digital Signal Processing DSP but according to these Garrard forums the MRM-101's phono amp is worth it's weight in gold.
 
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Years ago I had what they called a click and pop machine.
It was to take out the clicks and pops from vinyl.

I Think????? It was made by BIC. It never worked though.

Along with the BIC beem box FM antena.I'm a sucker I'll buy anything once!!
 
guitarlvr said:
Years ago I had what they called a click and pop machine.
It was to take out the clicks and pops from vinyl.

I Think????? It was made by BIC. It never worked though.

Along with the BIC beem box FM antena.I'm a sucker I'll buy anything once!!
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Same thing. BIC (originally British Industries Corp.) was the original importer of Garrard products.

There are people who still like those old beam boxes...
 
I remember we sold a few of these in the day. Fun little gizmo and they weren't that cheap. As I remeber though, you may need to set track to track. You will lose some music quality though.
 
The guts. Found this photo on a German site.

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bogle111 said:
I remember we sold a few of these in the day. Fun little gizmo and they weren't that cheap. As I remeber though, you may need to set track to track. You will lose some music quality though.
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Yeah, you lose a -lot- of music quality with these. Back in the 70's I bought one new, used it for awhile, but ultimately abandoned it as the clicks and pops were more tolerable than the loss of quality encountered when the unit was engaged.
 
I just picked one of these up. The noise removal thing sounds funky, but strictly as a preamp it sounds quite nice. It sounds good enough to make me think its worth the bother of re-capping at least. Even then, I'll have less into this than a brand new ArtDJ costs, and it goes well with my assortment of Garrard tables. Its between the Zero-100 and the Sherwood S-7000 at the moment.
 
Out in the shop to clean the controls. I get bass out of the Lab 80 with this as the phono stage that I never got out of the PAS2. The case looks cheesy as hell with the vinyl covered masonite that sticks up above the nice looking brushed faceplate but it wouldn't be Garrard without a healthy dose of cheese thrown in for bad measure.
 
I've had one of these gathering dust in my basement for years. After reading the positive comments about the quality of its phono preamp, I'm tempted to dust it off, clean the controls, replace some tired electrolytics, and try the thing in a system.
 
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