Linn LP12 turntable

@newton_john

STOP PRESS! lkea bedside tables sell out!

Thanks for that great breakdown of your upgrades.
Even greater, thinking outside the box for inexpensive solutions.

It’s not always the gear that counts but also displaying no fear in trying other solutions.

Car damping panels and spikes add more than the sum of all the parts and you may have something here. I was surprised your dealer did not like metal stands. Is he also saying the same for nearly all the turntable wall shelves out there too?

Strange the power supply results as it is far away from the deck relatively speaking.

By the way, the wife sounds like a keeper !

@mylogic You point to car dealerships as comparable to the Linn ecosystem, and I agree. For decades Linns have appeared  to fall into the same category as owning a British sportscar, complete with oxcart suspension technology and adapted industrial motors (MG and Triumph-Linn) or fragile cutting edge lightweight technology (Lotus-Rega) that were kept alive by their owners perverse love of a certain ephemeral experience they achieved only once every several outings, when nothing broke, leaked, or otherwise stranded the operator. 

@panzrwagn   While what you say may have been true decades ago with the Linn, this is certainly not true today. 
 

daveyf

Truth or not the truth, that is the question?

Why that supposition then that things have changed? An LP12 is always an LP12.

What’s the difference…..now and then?

panzrwagn

A friend of mine has an old British Morris Minor, he loves it. He said he has spent more time under the car than in it. I can’t believe the amount of time money and effort he has given up over the years to keep the old girl going!

This sounds very familiar to the hi-fi world and more so with turntables.

Yes, the fiddling stories came from decades ago. A lot of that is probably people not knowing what they were doing fiddling. I can only assume what has happened to make Linn the stable platform it is today is closer tolerances and material science. That make sense to me. I have a friend that is a Linn technician. When he finds a table that doesn’t sound right it is gross negligence in assembly... like putting the springs or cupped spring holders upside down. Absolutely stupid stuff. Once set up they are rock solid.

When you have an upgradable table, then you are going to have a lot of people that should not be doing it themselves... doing it themselves.