Oops, I meant to say glorified, not glamourized. My first good table was the AR XA, and I watched Brooks Berdan set up a few LP12's. He wasn't too impressed with it, feeling, as did Peter Moncrieff of IAR, that the Oracle Delphi was a far better table. Brooks came up with a mod for the Delphi, adding mass at one specific location on the bottom of it's floating sub-chassis in order to make optimizing it's suspension a snap.
Brooks was a race car designer in his younger days, and knew a lot about suspensions, spring rates, and moving mass, and their interactions. He switched allegiance to the higher mass VPI HW-19 when it was introduced, mounting many, many Eminent Technology air-bearing arms on that table. Many Linn owners still swear by their LP12's, particularly in terms of it's abilities at playing music, not just making sound.