Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@richardbrand 

What you point to is all amazing technological progress of which we can be proud. My point was that it is all based on physical principles that were already established when we were young.

As far as expanding our knowledge of these physical principles go, I find progress to be disappointing, especially given the huge resources expended. We have a lot of unanswered questions. 

Maybe like at the start of the twentieth century, we are on the threshold of some amazing new breakthroughs and a new golden age of physics. Alternatively, physics may become a dead science - I certainly hope this is not the case. 

@newton_john

between our respective counties

Hope that was a typo, though the good folk in the state of Canada will be watching closely.  Australia buys much more from the US than it exports to the US at the moment, but no reprieve for us!

There are reports that Canada is about to purchase our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar (it bounces radar off the ionosphere to pick up unwanted visitors in very remote regions).  Not sure which direction they will be pointing it in!

@newton_john

Maybe like at the start of the twentieth century

A lot of physicists at that time thought there was nothing new to discover - all that was left was measuring things more accurately.  Mind you, they had no idea what powered the sun.  Then in the greatest failed experiment of all time, Michelson and Morley failed to measure the drift of the presumed aether enabling light waves. The speed of light was the same, no matter how fast you were moving towards or from the thing you were looking at.  Then radioactivity raised its ugly head ...

... maybe there's not much fundamental physics left to discover - apart from what consciousness is, and dark matter, and dark energy.  Our picture of the world is dramatically different from 100 years ago, and today we can see back about 14-billion years though we cannot see past our event horizon.

@newton_john  In your above post you stated this..” all other things being equal, there’s no way Linn would charge more than they have to for an upgrade”.

Have you seen the price of the new Linn Bedrok plinth! Or, the price of the LP12 50th in the US! Seems like Thomas O’Keefe is having a hard time selling his…on this site at a significant discount! Maybe that should tell us something?
 

Who was it who said, ‘l love tariffs’.  Yes we all know!

From what l understand and pure logic is the 20% import duty….tariff goes straight into the US coffers so Americans consumers just pay more, not the exporter.

With regard to the proposed 20% on Linn products already outlined in posts l say this……

1. The UK has a trade deficit with the US so just that fact and from a sound accounting perspective adding tariffs from the UK is just plain stupid. So no UK ripping off the old US of A from over here.
 

2. It only makes sense to tariff countries who buy less from you as they are the ones (in your leaders eyes, or perhaps a brain) that arguably have been ripping off the poor old USA.

3. Tariffs are not amazing….they just create trade wars, ruin free choice, inflate prices for the consumer and stifle economic growth. 

There….l’ve gone and said it now