OMA is pleased to now represent Garrard/Loricraft in the USA. We will be carrying the world famous Loricraft record cleaning machines, restored Garrard 301 and 401 turntables, and Garrard/Loricraft power supplies and motor controllers for these and other turntables.

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Loricraft Record Cleaning Machines
We will be offering a new, exclusive OMA model of the world class Loricraft professional record cleaning machines. The Loricraft record cleaner is a fully professional machine, suitable for libraries, archives, record stores, and of course large personal record collections, where reliability and absolute record hygiene are imperatives. These machines are hand built, have superior industrial belt drive mechanisms, and laboratory grade vacuum pumps, to clean all types of records (33 rpm, 45 and 78 rpm, and even transcription discs on select models) despite warps or other deformations, which render lesser record cleaning machines inoperable. That is because the Loricraft machine uses a design, created by Percy Wilson of Gramophone Magazine back in 1964, that allows a tone arm to vacuum the record cleaning liquid from the record surface much in the same way that your tone arm tracks each groove during playback. Each groove is vacuumed completely dry by a nozzle which focuses the enormous suction power of the lab grade pump onto a tiny area, which means every last bit of dirt and cleaning solution are sucked from the record surface in the cleaning process. Other lesser record cleaning machines attempt to do the same duty using a wand with a much greater surface area, which is perpendicular to the grooves, meaning any warp in the surface will prevent full contact and removal of the cleaning liquid.
The Loricraft vacuum pump is also quiet enough, unlike other lesser machines, that one can enjoy listening to music while cleaning records, instead of the hearing the noise of your machine's pump at work.
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Restored Garrard 301 and 401 Turntables
Loricraft/Garrard have been restoring the classic 301 and 401 Garrard turntables for decades now, and helped make these classic idler drive turntables world famous once again. Only with a Loricraft restored Garrard will you get a guaranteed correct restoration with a full warranty. Loricraft has restored more Garrard's by far than anyone else worldwide, and today carries the exclusive license to the Garrard name. OMA can offer rare, early grey hammertone grease bearing Schedule One Garrard 301's, cream colored oil or grease bearing 301's, and the later Garrard 401's, all fully and expertly restored, using the correct parts and skill which comes from original Swinburne factory employees who worked to produce Garrards during the heyday of vinyl in Enlgand. These decks are both an investment like a fine vintage automobile, and yet are still competitive sonically with the very best, most expensive high end turntables made today, when set up with the right plinth and power supply. OMA makes slate plinths without a parallel, and can help you create an entire Garrard idler system, encompassing turntable, plinth, tonearm, and cartridge (both new and vintage.)
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