linn sondek tt

@tatyana69 Unfortunately, there are so many negative opinions on this table on the various forums from folk who have never even heard the table, never mind owned it, that it is easy to get bad information about it on the www.
This is why I ask the many posters who are favoring the Technics or the Crossley ( ;0) ) over the LP12, as to what their experience is with it; and what ancillary gear they were using ( if any!).
Typically, i get answers that are just pathetic and clearly showing a total lack of experience with the LP12, or for that matter analog in general!

Your experience with the 1200G is unfortunate, but absolutely no surprise to me.

Correctly set up and with the latest upgrades ( Radikal D, Keel/Kore, Ekos Se-1,Tramp 2 and new plinth/Booplinth) the table competes at a level that very few can match, if any! IME.

@roberjerman How would you know what the ’so called upgrades’ can do, if you have never installed them...?? Pity, I think you are very much underestimating these products, and overestimating your experience with the table. Just because they are pricey, doesn’t automatically make them invalid, although I suppose in your mind it does!

Nobody seems to comment on the "looks" of the tt...  In my view, the classic looking tts (turntables just in case you were thinking of something else) look SOO much better, I can live with the slightly inferior sound.  After all, I think I see better than I hear :-)

I have a Goldring Lenco 99 carefully set up with VERY modest components that sounds VERY acceptable and much better to listen to than a multi thousand £ Clearaudio deck that I screamed at myself for being so stupid to buy before hearing, and made as quick a loss on it as I could. Unfortunately, as in another thread, buying turntables is a game that has to take place in your own system and with your own listening preferences, as loan turntables are not really possible. It is not really much fun either in the wasted time and money. Having said that I am taking a further blind risk in January by buying off my friendly dealer the new £10k Avid deck! But I do trust him greatly as he is well familiar with my ears, preferences and system and is strangely invariably of the same opinions as me over the years, and many expensive purchases. He has not failed me yet - I suppose there  may be a first time!

@tatyana69  The Avid is an excellent deck, Hard to fault. Which model are you getting? Having said that, I don't think the Acutus ref is any better than the top LP12 Radikal D Klimax, just different flavour. Cannot go wrong with either table. You won't be disappointed.

The limited edition just out now - only 100 being made or something like that. Thought I'd jump at it purely on dealer advice and favourable comments from other people that I consider to be believable consistently.