With the new motor unit freed from its surroundings, I noted a number of details of interest to hardcore 301 fanatics and restorers. Perhaps SME feels there's a sonic advantage to doing things their way. I was mildly surprised not to see threaded inserts embedded in the plinthsuch as I would have built into the homemade plinth for my own 301, had I the means (not to mention the skill) to lay them out with the requisite precision. I wasn't surprised to note that those nuts were scarcely more than finger tight, given my own observations that the 301 sounds much better when those and other of its fasteners are not over-torqued. The 301 fastens to the plinth with four bolts that pass down through its cast-aluminum chassis the chassis is isolated from the plinth with thick, pliant washers, both above and below the wooden slabhere is the explanation why, in all the photos we've seen of the new 301, there appears to be a slight gap between the motor unit and the top surface of the plinthand the bolts are secured from beneath with thicker-than-average nuts, just as I've seen on most original Garrards.
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