Any Linn LP12 owners in So Cal get the Karousel bearing upgrade?

@dover  What you just described tells me you were not an authorized Linn turntable dealer. Linn are very concerned ( rightly or wrongly) about protecting their Linn turntable specialists/stockists.. from their general Linn dealerships. 

@daveyf 
No, I was authorised, invested in Linn set up jigs, training, the whole nine yards. They also pulled the same stunt on some of the other authorised dealers, the distributor simply saw an opportunity to nab all the retail margins for themselves for a new product. Didn't affect me but one of the other authorised dealers had been selling Linn for over 20 years.

ah the moment of truth, and the admission.... maybe???

all I have to say is Linn has poor customer service. They have a distribution center and repair shop about three blocks from where I live. There are no Linn dealers here locally. They were going to make me drive 200 miles to go hear one. Really...... I guess they are not too worried about sales.

I ultimately went to another country and heard one and the dealer was very knowledgeable and a great guy. Unfortunately, my VPI scout had a way more wide open sound than the Linn had probably attributed to the unipivot arm so I could not at the time justify the Linn. He even put my Benz ref s on his table so I could get a good idea of what it would sound like. Well, it sounded fat and sloppy on the Ekos Radical LP12. I think a Lyra would be a good choice for a Linn however I wanted a table that was more neutral. He had a Linn cartridge on the table and it did sound great.

So... I think they do have poor customer service. I just do not think they care that much about the US market.