Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@daveyf

Thank you.

Just to explain, it wasn’t the same LP12. I sold my original turntable in a fit of madness five years ago. About two years ago I started to have a yearning for vinyl again. My dealer lent me an LP12 that had been traded in. It was essentially the same as my old turntable, except it had Urika II instead of Urika I.

It sounded streets ahead of my old turntable. So eventually after much soul searching, I bought it at a reasonable price. I put the improvement down to the Urika II working so well with my Klimax DSM/3 Hub. In the light of your comments about LP12 fettlers, I do wonder if there might be more to it than that. Of course, there may same other factor in play.

Funny you mention bearing oil. I was just watching a video of Linn’s Gordon Inch building a Bedrok LP12. He adds a few extra drops of oil in the Karousel to get exactly the right level.

I’ll ask my dealer about the warm up time. Now I think about this, it  has been most noticeable since I had Radikal and Karousel upgrades fitted. Also, that coincides with winter.

Linn and its dealers cultivated a mythology about the need for "fettling" of the LP12.

God knows, I fettled enough of them to know, and to curse why the damn thing was so badly designed/toleranced in the first place.

I used the term fettling as follows _

The Linn Sondek is of Scottish descent.

Scottish dictionary defines fettling as -

II. v. 1. tr. To put to rights, into good condition or working order, to mend, repair; to settle, arrange

The best Linn was the 40th Anniversary model because it came with a bottle of 40 year old Highland Park scotch whisky. 

Perfect way to drown your sorrows when your Linn goes out of tune - again.

@dover Sorry to disappoint you, but the current LP12 does not fall out of tune, once it has been set up correctly, it stays that way. Linn addressed the problem years ago,

@yoyoyaya The idea that the table needs to be set up by someone who has the know how to do it correctly, is by no means a myth. The tolerances and the design has been improved immensely since you last set up the table, as evidenced by your comment.

Sorry to disappoint you, but the current LP12 does not fall out of tune

@daveyf

I’m not disappointed, I’ve heard the later iterations ( $60k fully loaded ) and they are indeed much improved. I’ve often thought about getting another to put my Naim Aro on, for posterity. I also liked the Pink Linn with vector drive some years ago.

Try your Linn without a plinth, you can use T-slot extrusions. you might be surprised. No box is without its own inherent colourations.

As an aside I can't stand the current fad of replacing the springs with grommets - definitely out of tune literally with that "mod". I hear one note bass with grommets.