I also auditioned the Linn Unidisk 1.1 vs. the Esoteric DV-50 and the Krell SACD Standard (and a half dozen others, to boot). I found the Linn to be a bit finicky on what you fed it, and to take a LONG time to startup on some disk formats, or when switching between formats. For more than $10K I just couldn't justify having to power cycle the thing to get it to read some of my disks. The Linn sales guys and reps made excuses about new versions of the firmware and some disks just not living up to the specs - but the bottom line is that neither my DV-50 or my Krell SACD have EVER choked on a disk (I bought them both).
Has anyone else had a similar experience with the Linn? You could go offline if you are afraid your local Linn rep will stop being nice to you...
Has anyone else had a similar experience with the Linn? You could go offline if you are afraid your local Linn rep will stop being nice to you...