I need some turntable guidance

mijostyn I have been following several of your threads on forums concerning turntables and actually based my current purchases on your knowledge and information, eg., SOTA and Kuzma 4 point. I have not decided on a cartridge as yet though. However, having just read your last comment I am a bit worried now over your explanation of brain-behavior relationships; to wit, whether you are right or left hand the speech areas including Wernicke is found in the left temporal lobe even thought many other abilities are found on opposite sides of the brain, ie., motor and sensory functions. Perhaps you should stay within your lane instead of having to be the smartest in the room...after all you did pride yourself on knowing your weaknesses BOOM, but your advice on the turntable and arm will hopefully be spot on. JMW759

@jaym759 While Mike ( mijostyn) may be ok giving advice on the Kuzma platform? i wouldn’t take too much heed in what he states about other things, particularly the Linn LP12! He sure doesn’t seem to know his weakness BOOM when it comes to that table, LOL.

Daveyf, you are correct. I have never seen or taken apart a Klimax modified Linn and it is possible that they have cleverly fixed all the problems that table had. Remember I owned two of them. Back in the late 70's everyone was crazy about the Linn. So I bought one. At that time the suspension was so poorly tuned the slightest jar sent the tonearm skyward. The only mod I made to that one was a laminated arm board replacing the Masonite one.  So I sold it in frustration and made mistake #2 buying a Transcriptors table with a Vestigial arm. The one with the glass plinth with the record in the air on brass pillars. Very cool looking.
Stupid design. Live and learn. Then I had one of the original Oracle tables. Again poorly tuned suspension and QC problems. Then in frustration back to The Linn LP12. Nothing had changed but I figured it would be easier to deal with and I certainly did not have enough money for a Goldmond. So I did. I dampened the platter and had it statically balanced. I dampened the sub chassis by covering it with automotive sound dampening which also made it heavier lowering the resonance rate of the suspension. I stuffed rubber of various durometers into the springs until I got the right increase in Q and made it a new layered arm board with an ebony veneer on top. The one thing the Linn taught me was that having a dust cover is mandatory. I have not been without one since. It lasted until I got to Akron, Ohio for residency. The dealer who I worked with in Miami knew the owner of a shop in Akron call the Golden Gramophone, John Ashe who was also a car junkie. We became friends quickly. He had a red 512BB (Burlinetta Boxer). What a car. Anyway, he took on SOTA given the reviews it was getting and he actually made me take it home to try. One week later I ordered one for myself and have never looked back.
I put a Syrinx PU3 arm on it (great Arm) and the only mod I made was putting a glass mat on it. The platters on the original SOTAs did ring and the glass mat dampened it perfectly. I did not get another table for 20 years. 
Certain issues are open to opinion others are simply facts of life. I will add IMHO when it is opinion. When I do not add it, it is either a fact of life or I am horribly mistaken which does happen on occasion. 

@mijostyn  Seriously!! You now post what you did to your poor Linn (decades ago) and expect us to believe that anything you state from now on in has any relevance to the ( current or vintage) Linn turntable!! 

Folks, if this doesn't say more for someone NOT putting their 2 cents into something that they really have absolutely no clue about, i don't know what does!

Holy Cow!!

I think the OP wanted some turntable advice, not a debate on the merits of Linn turntables