I need some turntable guidance

@mijostyn  Seriously!! You now post what you did to your poor Linn (decades ago) and expect us to believe that anything you state from now on in has any relevance to the ( current or vintage) Linn turntable!! 

Folks, if this doesn't say more for someone NOT putting their 2 cents into something that they really have absolutely no clue about, i don't know what does!

Holy Cow!!

I think the OP wanted some turntable advice, not a debate on the merits of Linn turntables

Jaym759, Wernikes area can absolutely be found in the Rt temporal lobe but yes it is most usually in the Lt temporal lobe. I had a patient who was right handed and developed an acute global aphasia along with weakness in the Left leg?? Two stokes. No just one. His Wernikes was in the Rt temporal lobe which is where he stroked out. If you like neurology today I diagnosed a middle aged gentleman with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
I hope you are enjoying your SOTA and perhaps the most cleverly engineered tone arm ever made. Quite a guy Frank Kuzma. I think the Ortofon Windfeld Ti is perfect in that arm and very difficult to top IMHO.
Oh and not my weakness Daveyf, yours. I got over it. There must be problems with the Linn still because everybody wants to modify it. My current SOTA and SME need no modification although I will upgrade the SOTA to the new motor when I get a chance.

jperry, the Linn LP 12 in a very important episode in turntable history. Because of all the ringing it added a shine to the music audiophiles fell in love with just like tubes. Plus it taught a whole generation of audiophiles how to walk very gently. Many of us still walk on our toes because of that table.
daveyf, you can insult me all you want but anyone taking the Linn apart would wonder how anybody could get more than a couple of hundred bucks for construction like that. My old Zenith portable with the Cobra Tonearm that even had eyes was built better. Most people do not want to buy a turntable they have to modify. They just want a turntable that works right from the start. If you like tinkering great. knock yourself out but most people are not like that. jaym759 will find that once he has his SOTA set up he will not have to touch it until he changes cartridges. 

@mijostyn Mike, i’m not trying to insult you, instead I am trying to stop you from disseminating bad/incorrect information in regards to the Linn turntable.
The fact that you have not heard a new/recent version and are relying on past experience, which occurred decades ago, clouds your opinion; but to come on a pubic forum and naysay like you do, really is not acceptable IMHO.
People don’t have to ’modify’ anything about the Linn when they buy the entry level model. OTOH, at least IMO, what is beneficial is that if, or when funds become available, the same turntable can be upgraded all the way to a SOTA platform....how many other entry level tables can you say that about?
This is one of the reasons that I suggested the table to the OP.