Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy?

@stringreen,

’If you leave the setup to a pro.....by you bring it home, it will need another adjustment’


Unfortunately, that was my experience too. In the end I got a setup manual from Linn and decided to do the job myself. Many others did similarly, but I wouldn’t recommend it - especially if yours has one with a defective top plate.


All Linn LP12 promo threads run the risk of former disgruntled dissatisfied owners speaking up.

And there’s more than a few...

Linn are possibly one of the most maligned companies in audio today. They no longer seem to have the power to court /coerce reviewers and dealers as they once did.

They couldn’t even be bothered to support their own UK forum for their customers. Now it’s just left to one or two diehard fans.

Yet they were once one of the most admired.

With their strategy of endlessly fleecing their loyal customer base with a stolen design they didn’t really do themselves any favours, did they?

Even if the current LP12 is a much more stable and consistent design than it was, and there’s little assurance of that, then it still faces an entirely different level of competition than it once did.

On the plus side, we should see a continued gradual falling in used prices to bring it within reach of any of those who might have wondered what the fuss was all about.

@cd318 It is pretty clear by now that you are no Linn fan. Whether you owned a Linn LP12 or not, you still insist on trying to naysay the table. 
You state "Linn are possibly one of the most maligned companies in audio today" ---Yes, because of folks like YOU!

Lewn...  the Morgan analogy is absolutely perfect.  This brought up my vision of when I got my pilots license.  The chief FAA guy at Teterborough airport in NJ drove a Morgan...a guy I could never hope to be as cool.  ..just about a month ago, I happened into the local Bently dealer because he had a Morgan for sale on his used car lot.  Still looking for cool, I drove it, and as I inched my way through the Scottsdale traffic, I imagined I was tearing through the English countryside....Alas, at the close of my auto adventure, I realized that my Porsche gave me the thrills I was looking for, and also realized I still couldn't be as cool as my flight instructor Lou Ranley.....who must now be flying among the stars.

cd-18......that's exactly what I did....got that dealer setup manual, the device to put the table on so that I could get under easily to adjust the springs, etc.   Was quite good at it...lots of experience.

I worshipped my LP12- had it for 15 years. Used it with a number of cartridges and phono preamps but the last it was running with was a Lyra Delos through a ASR Basis Exclusive. I wasn't thrilled with the sound at the end and went to have it re-setup but the Linn guy had passed away so I tried to set it up myself and had zero luck and sold the table. All that said, when I finally ended up with a Well Tempered Amadeus, I found that I preferred the sound of the new table by a large margin and I was able to easliy set it up myself!