Loricraft is no more. SME bought it to get their Garrard spares and the Garrard name. SME are releasing a 301 in a Loricraft-style plinth and M2-12R for £20k or so, the model doing the review rounds appears to be a proper 301 built from that Loricraft spares stock, though apparently SME do plan to tool-up and make them again. I’d personally be surprised if there was that much market at that price considering you can get a nice tidy restored original 301 for about a tenth of that, but the ultra-high-end audio market plays by its own rules these days. Apparently SME will not be making their 301 available as a chassis unit, the only way to get one is to but the full deck/plinth/arm package. The thing that surprises me most is there is talk that they are doing it properly, i.e. casting the parts just as Garrard did rather than CNC cutting them from solid. I’m surprised that is financially viable given the price structure and likely production volume. From its introduction in 1954 Garrard were making 7000 301s a year for well over a decade, my guess is SME will sell rather less!