When is a Linn not a Linn........

[John G]

I've gone all Linn with my LP12 regarding arm, cartridge and power supply. I think there's a synergy there and the combination is so easy to work with and maintain.

Hearing direct comparisons in my neck of the woods with alternative arms, power supplies, cartridges in a competent dem is next to impossible. Naim kind of lost me when they used to go on about the basik power supply being better than the Valhalla or Lingo.

A Linn stops being a Linn when enthusiasm for purchasing music and using it on a regular basis wanes, not the case with me.

[HBerg]

(2010-10-29 15:12)Cymbiosis Wrote:  

(2010-10-29 14:19)flatpopely Wrote:  It still shows as a current product on their website though?

Then the website needs updating as to this fact................

The Aromatic is neither marked as discontinued but to my knowledge it has been for several years, or......?

[sonddek]

Interesting thread. For me, tunedem is where the Sondek lags some of the competition. Where it competes well is timbre. But timbre ain't tune. Maybe Sondek is engineered using timbredem.

[kuma]

(2010-10-29 09:03)Andy Wrote:  * then we have the duchess, saying "any time you use a non-Linn item, it no longer (is) the sound Linn intended". One might think she is an out-and-out Linnie ...

andy,

I stopped being a *Linnie* when I have heard the ARO.

Quote: and yet she appears to runs an Aro, a Miyabe and a non-Linn plinth (a Chris H plinth?)!

...and now with a non-Linn power supply...

So, my deck has an LP12 logo on it, but it does not quite sound like one for sure.

[Andy]

(2010-10-30 10:18)kuma Wrote:  ...and now with a non-Linn power supply...

So, my deck has an LP12 logo on it, but it does not quite sound like one for sure.

My apologies duchess.

Regards,

Andy

[eye-fi]

(2010-10-29 13:28)AdamWysokinski Wrote:  Regarding the topic - I agree with kuma that any non-Linn component makes a non-Linn turntable.

When you look at other turntables, you would call them by their name despite the fact they probably don't make cartridges or arms & you wouldn't dispute the fact it was a Michell Gyro or a EAR Mechanic for example. You can include the Majik LP12 in this as it uses a non LINN arm.

So I'd say a Sondek is always a Sondek as long as it still produces a sound that complements the deck rather than radically change it.

I do remember way back probably in the late 80's when a company produced a bearing housing & spindle for the Sondek & it sounded really quite different. Although at the time (I'd just purchased my 'first' Sondek) interest in modifying the way equipment sounds back then was small.

Don't know what happened to the company or whom they were, the company or the product seems to have vanished without a trace.

[AdamWysokinski]

(2010-10-30 14:20)eye-fi Wrote:  When you look at other turntables, you would call them by their name despite the fact they probably don't make cartridges or arms & you wouldn't dispute the fact it was a Michell Gyro or a EAR Mechanic for example. You can include the Majik LP12 in this as it uses a non LINN arm.

Well, Michel has its own tonearm (modified Rega AFAIK). Regarding the Majik - I'm not sure whether the Majik tonearm is somewhat modified according to Linn spec.
I believe in synergy when building audio systems. Using Linn-only components of similar level of advancement (that's why I wouldn't mix eg. Radikal with Akito or Ekos SE with Adikt) I rest assured the highest level of synergy "within" a turntable is maintained.

[eye-fi]

(2010-10-30 14:35)AdamWysokinski Wrote:  Well, Michel has its own tonearm (modified Rega AFAIK). Regarding the Majik - I'm not sure whether the Majik tonearm is somewhat modified according to Linn spec.

I knew if I quoted a manufacturer someone would say they have a tonearm lol. However I don't think even Michel would consider the Rega a top flight arm that does the deck true justice hence the use of SME.

[Julian H]

I have heard that Michell consider the Technoarm A comparable to the SME4. If that is true the Technoarm A is a bargain.

[Chris H]

The Technoarm is not on par with an SME IV, I owned one for a short time.