The new Linn LP12 50th Anniversary edition

I don't like the new rounded style - it looks cheap.

They should go back to the original classic scandi look - square edges and fluted plinth of yore.

My new Apple M2 is probably better built and likely sounds better.

OP,

I think you are correct… in that at the $60K price point, you can get a better sounding table. Different league ? Well, that would have to be determined in a real intimate comparison with both of us in the same room comparing our preferences and listening.

I guess I was talking in two different ways / observations. My guess is that the 50th anniversary Linn will perform at the ~$45K performance level (judging by the fact that my $35K Linn analog leg performs at that level) … if it performed at the +$45K that would be great. Anyone buying one, would be excited to have this special TT… knowing that they are paying for that. So, plus or minus $15K would not be an important difference. So, if I were in the market for the very best $60K TT… I would know this is not it. But adding in the nostalgia, it would be a good deal.

So, how you look at this is really a question of you value of money, audio and performance. But, I don;t think for someone that really appreciates Linn this is a stretch.

This makes Naim's Nait 50 look like a bargain. 

What is the functional and practical difference between a $45K TT and a $60K TT? To my mind, at those price points emotion alone governs choice, or should do. If there are measurable differences, the inferior unit has no business costing even $45K.

Same price as an SME Model 60. If I had to choose between those two, I think the Linn would lose.