I always heard a Linn sound great. But a new fully loaded @20K? Even at this guy's price, tough to swallow: https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9964g-linn-sondek-lp-12-loaded-with-all-options-turntablesss. For $10K, you open yourself up to quite a few tables WITH a nice cart. |
@tzh21y Linn themselves are now handling all US distribution. If your ’distributor’ is 5 minutes from your house- and won’t let you hear one of the tables, it is most likely because this fellow is NO LONGER a rep! Perhaps contact Linn at the UK website for how to hear the table? Compared to your Scout, to my ears the LP12 Radikal D is in a totally different and superior league. YMMV. |
@tzh21y , no hurry. Last one I heard at a dealer's featured an Ekos / Troika combo. Strangely underwhelming. Things improved somewhat with a Naim Aro, but I have never heard a Linn with vanishingly low surface noise. You know, those 'inky black' backgrounds you sometimes read about. Perhaps things have changed. If you can persuade your local dealer to reconsider, (forget the 200 miles, that's too far for even a Continuum Obsidian or Technics SP10R), it'd be nice to hear what you thought. |
actually, I went to their website and the phone number is the one here locally for all Linn. I tried to contact somebody at Linn, they just directed me to this local guy who tells me i have to travel 200 miles to hear one or go 500 miles to NYC. Thats just crazy since they are truly less than 15 minutes away driving slowly. Maybe somebody at Linn will see this and realize how crazy that is. |
