how many Linn Owners?
Hi all,
My first post. I too have an LP12. Box stock, purchased in the Fall of 1982 from a dealer in Southern CA. He started carrying Pink Triangle and sold off his demo LP12. I have the cherry plinth, or was it rosewood?? (Had to go look, think it's rosewood...) I was kinda disappointed, I always thought the lighter wood with the grooves in was the best looking.
Nothing's been done to it save replacing the thrust bearing cap on the motor, the original was noisy. Bought it w/o arm, bought a new Signet XK50 arm to put on it. Currently I'm using either a Shure V15VMR or Grado Platinum, but the Grado hums, so I probably use the Shure more. I did talk to Grado about it, they told me mumetal wouldn't help, I'd have to put it on the cartridge. I'm interested to see if the other post lets us know if his shielding works or not. Oh, and I tried a bunch of homemade turntable mats and plain thin cork sounds the best IMHO (recorded to wav files and played back on my iPod with Sony in-ear 'phones...)
I was working as a R&R touring sound engineer the year I bought it, and went to every stereo store in the country on my days off. I asked, simply, what record player/deck would you buy if you could buy the best, and almost unanimously the response was LP12. So I bought one.....