Linn LP12 turntable

Thank you for clarifying.

My point remains… they get you to very different places. Sensors are like DAC chips in audio equipment…. They are a subcomponent of the camera and their overall performance is the result of the overall design… software and other components used to make the camera. So it depends which camera that Sony sensor is in. Zeiss is every much as good a lens as a Leica but very different in how it renders images. I have a Zeiss built for my Leica, I never use it… it produces very analytical looking photos. There are two components that differentiate Leica… the Leica lens and body. So if you contrast say Nikon D800 with a Zeiss lens, with a Leica and Leica lens you have the contrast I explained earlier.. Boulder / Magic vs Sonus Faber / Audio Research. Two very different destinations.

Since you were taking sensors… let me restate my point… a Zeiss lens on a

Maybe this thread should be moved to the Leica owners forum..

Hopefully we can get back on track now and discuss the Linn LP12.

@mylogic So yes, I thought that I'd chime in.  For someone who doesn't own an LP12 and I'll assume have not really listened to one and its variants over the years over any real time, I am curious about the tank turret reference to the Ittok arm.  From my perspective the Ittok looks pretty straight forward in design; clean, simple, well made.  If that is a tank(I'm assuming the pivot) turret, then from what I see lately in top end tonearms must be ICBM missile gantries.  What do you consider a good deal for the $2400 the OP is spending?  I don't see any photos of what you're using in your setup.  Disclosure: I own a LP12, and no, I don't get angry about negative opinions of what I like.  Years ago(I wish I could find the thread), I sort of got into it with someone here: we disagreed about some of the upgrade paths for the the Linn where we had friends of ours help out in our decisions.  But we figured   out our disagreement(or he did), apparently my friends were not as sophisticated/good as his friends. Well there, we settled it.  Now I could have been offended by that, but instead it made me kind of laugh.  I was not offended but found it humorous and I left it at that.

@vitussl101   There always seem to be folk on all audio forums who have little to no experience with a Linn LP12, but who also have no issue with denigrating the table for one reason or another. I suspect it is due to a few issues that these folk have...one being jealousy of the success that the table enjoys..and two, because of racism against the owners. 

@daveyf 

… because of racism against the owners. LOL hilarious 😏