Bdp24, no, certainly not on my part. And I should probably not have included the words "and therefore expensive" in the excerpt of the statement that I quoted from the earlier poster
I am the poster Al who wrote "therefore more expensive".
Not being a subscriber to the Linn philosophy, I meant this in the context that the loudspeakers are more important than the source and therefore, most likely would be more expensive than the source..
This is certainly the case in my system as I stated a 38% vs. 62% difference in favor of my speakers.
I am not implying that price automatically denotes sound quality. Just giving my reasons for the allocation of funds in my system. Others may be at an exact match of vinyl source to speakers and yet others may be polar opposite of mine. And for those that are, I am sure that Mr. Tiefenbrun is smiling.