linn sondek tt

 @stringreen  Please tell me how you moved your Linn once the set up was completed. What protocol, if any did you use. There is a way to transport a suspension based table, fail to do that and all bets are off. Plus, again, I am assuming that the set up was done correctly in the first place, an assumption that has proven faulty on numerous occasions with this table. Did your Linn dealer or rep do the set up, or was it somebody else...you?

I myself would not mind a Linn as a 2nd table.  The do have their virtues.  Just because I said the scout bettered the Linn Radical in some ways does not mean that the scout was better.  The Linn was better but it cost between 18 and 20K.

Their is a six part video on Youtube describing how to set up a Linn.  Thats way too many videos for a setup of a table, especially when they cost upwards of 6K new at the low end.  Time is money and I would rather be listening than fiddling with the Linn.  However, if I could find one for a reasonable price, I like to tinker once in a while.

Davey.....on a pogo stick ----how else.    your comments are silly.

The suspension drift problems, and hence the mindbogglingly difficult set up, were well documented. It is disingenuous to refer to it as a myth. Many older decks had dodgy top pressed steel plates that were prone to warping. Getting the suspension to bounce properly and stay that way for more than a few days on those was nigh on impossible.

The top plate was eventually replaced by a new strengthened one by Linn (third party ones are also available). These may well address some of the problems, I don’t know.

Therefore if you are considering buying a used top plate for your endlessly updated Thorens TD150, I mean Linn LP12, be very careful. A whole world of pain is waiting.

Far safer to get a new top plate, be it from Linn or some third party. Without a well set up suspension the LP12 can sound very, very ordinary.

@cd318  Once again another opinion from someone who probably doesn't own a Linn! Having owned one of these tables in various forms over the last thirty years, I have never had a problem with it 'drifting' out of set up. Not once! Linn owners who have had their table set up by anyone who knows how to do the job have also never had the issue.
Unfortunately, and as usual, there still are people who persist in putting in their 2 cents that really have no knowledge and thereby disseminate ongoing falsities. The Linn LP12 --particularly in its current guise, is certainly one of the victims of this behavior. Only question i have, is why Linn themselves don't step in and squash it? I guess these days they are too interested in selling their digital gear, too bad, IMO.