Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@yoyoyaya That aspect makes it even worse! I have to question how many folks will pony up for the Bedrok, vs. simply going in another direction with another table, at a price like you brought our attention to.
Interesting thing, and I’m not sure if this is totally correct, on a Linn forum, there is a well informed member who informed the group that Linn do not actually manufacture the Bedrok plinth themselves!  Instead it is farmed out to a secondary vendor, who specializes in woodwork. Apparently, Linn do no woodwork themselves. This might explain some of the price attributable to the Bedrok..maybe?

@daveyf Even if Linn have the cnc machinery, it probably isn't worth their while tying up a machine making those plinths given the volumes involved. More generally, very few audiophile hi fi manufacturers are vertically integrated - i.e make everything in house. But there's no easy rule about make / buy, decisions as they are called. SME is an example of a company with very high levels of vertical integration and it doesn't result in their turntables being particularly affordable.

If I were a Linn aficionado, the Bedrock would stimulate me to think up other ways to make a plinth that would probably cost less but also further improve upon the bedrock. I think the one piece bamboo idea is terrific but why no internal cross bracing if rigidity is a goal and why no attempt to fill the hollow space below the works with a contoured structure of the same composition? Has that been tried and found wanting?

@lewm Presumably you are talking about the Booplinth? You ask some great questions, why no bracing etc.,

There have been a number of aftermarket plinth makers, some involving all metal plinths, various wood combo’s etc., none of these have been that successful from a SQ perspective.

Also, there is certainly a premium attached to a plinth that comes from Linn themselves, even if they are re-badging the product. I suspect that Linn did not want a bamboo plinth, as they would be in direct competition with the Booplinth, and they knew that they needed to exceed the ability of that product. Apparently, this has been accomplished with the new Bedrok...at a price!

Yes, I guess I was thinking of the Booplinth, when I referred to bamboo, not the Bedrock. But my subsequent wondering about this and that applies to both. Why no cross-bracing? And why no attempt to create a plinth that fills in the void under the platform that supports everything else with sculpted wood or other material, sculpted to accommodate the workings that hang down, so as to eliminate the potentially resonant air chamber? That approach has been successful with idler drives (Garrard and Lenco aftermarket plinths) and with direct drive (see PBN Audio plinth for DP80). Since I approach the question from a position of complete naivete’, I wonder whether it has been done and was not so successful. No devoted Lenco-ite would be caught listening with the OEM Lenco plinth, which was hollow inside.