Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@olskool

I saw some comments by a guy who had heard a direct comparison between the BooPlinth and Bedrok. I think it was in one of the Linn Facebook groups. He said that he preferred the BooPlitnth.

Ok, it’s only one person’s opinion, but at least it suggests it’s not a slam dunk that the Bedrok is better. That’d be pretty amazing considering the £6,000 price difference.

@newton_john The term ’better’ is extremely subjective in our hobby. To one person, ’better’ means the system sounds louder without strain, to another ’better’ might mean the system plays softer with more realism. IMO, in order to truly determine if the ’Bedrok’ plinth suits one’s taste in reproduction more than another upgrade, one has to actually hear a Linn LP12 with Bedrok in one’s own system..and room. Then determine for oneself if the cost of said improvement ( if any) is worth it to the particular persons pocket book.

I am aware that some folk order the upgrades without first hearing what their $$’s will buy them...personally I fail to see the wisdom in that approach.

What davey said, especially if considering an opinion from "some guy".

@daveyf

As I said, it’s only one guy’s opinion.

Linn do have a very clear idea of what better means.

However, I’m a little surprised that one or two people appear to be spending £8,750, without first listening. I guess they just have to have the latest thing.

It’s not just a matter of it being better. It’s also a question if whether it is enough of an improvement to justify spending that much money. As we have discussed before, everybody has to make their own call on that.

Although I’m not surprised that some people do have faith in Linn’s upgrades. Their reputation is built on past performance. I can’t think of one supposed upgrade that wasn’t an improvement.

Thanks for the note newton_john. I realize the sharing of the comment from another who had heard both was offered as one more twig of opinion in the campfire discussion of new gear for Linn and the price that accompanies it. I also agree with daveyf and lewm that certainly there is a lot more needed to empirically  state that one is better than the other. Now that we’re talking about it I’m not so sure that there could actually be a definitive means of claiming that (same old argument for us I think), considering all the variances involved; hearing acuity, personal taste, room, gear (solid state vs. tube) etc.  I’m just glad someone chimed in a while back about what they heard in reading about the BooPlinth followed by a fair amount of someones who heard the BooPlinth to cause me to take the risk to spend $2,400 US and buy it for my system.  I think one of the downfalls of our hobby is there’s a lot that can’t easily be demonstrated, especially in your own home system.  I guess I got lucky in that purchase that it all lined up for me as a great decision. Who knows, the  Bedrok might blow me away too, just not sure that it’s value proposition is enough for me to take the risk.  
 

Olskool