The new Linn LP12 50th Anniversary edition

If Linn utilize the new design aesthetic across the whole LP12 line, I think this is actually a very nice update. Hopefully ,the price of a new plinth with rounded corners will not be ridiculous; but knowing Linn's marketing....:0(

@lalitk   +1

Where Linn get the idea that their Anniversary 50th LP12 equates to a $60K price tag is beyond me? 

However, like always, they probably figure that there are folk with money to burn who will pony up for this model. This kind of segue ways into my thread in the speaker section wherein I asked, is there a price that a manufacturer can ask that will be too much, resulting in zero sales...seems that there is not???

@ghdprentice   Your post makes sense, except it might assume that there is no direct competition for the Linn 50th at its asking price. Problem is, at least IME, there is competition at and slightly above this price point that will put the Linn to shame. On another forum, i mentioned that I recently heard a super nice Basis Inspiration with the Superarm 9 arm...similar piece point ( albeit the Basis was slightly higher, but not that much) and the Basis was in an entirely different league to any LP12 I have ever heard. The new SME 60 also is at this LP12's price point, I know which one i would entertain, and it is NOT the LP12.

Not junk, but also, at least for the LP12 50th Anniversary, hard to assign that price to value.

While the Thorens is a good table, I do think the Linn is probably better. However, is it 10-30 times better, that i seriously doubt! 

Interesting thing is that there are apparently 120 of the 250 tables released already accounted for! That would seem to indicate that there are a ton of consumers who think nothing of dropping sixty large! I guess when you are worth $200+ million, what is sixty large......

So that this is not taken in the wrong light, I am a fan of the LP12 table, and I own one.

However, I fail to understand the value of new hinges and a new shaped button or logo? I never use my lid for anything but a dust cover to be used only when the table is NOT in use. To add $30k for the benefit of a different plinth ( assuming there is even a benefit) and for the different shape of the sub chassis and power button, plus the “exclusive “ badging, makes zero sense to me.

The crazy thing is, Linn has apparently sold 120 of these 50th Anniv models already, which tells me that there are quite a few ‘unaware’ folk out there…with more money than sense, imho.

Apparently, all 250 LP12 50th Anniv tables are now sold! 

 

60k for an airpax motor turntable… if it were

milled from titanium it still won’t be worth that with a markup. The LP12 is a fine deck and deserves its place in audio history. The best LP12’s I have heard are by The Funk Firm and Vinyl Passion and they come out waaaaaayyyyyyy less than £60k. It’s this idiocy that leads to the gradual demise of the audio industry

And yet Linn has sold all 250 of these in just a few weeks! One could argue that they priced them way too low!!!

@vinylvalet   I guess you were not one of the 250 buyers. Although, I suspect you would not have that opinion if you could have been....;0)

@zavato   Even if the hinges are retrofittable, do you want to pay the kind of cost that Linn would have in mind for a better solution to hold up your lid??? Since I only use the lid for a way to protect the table from dust when not in use, personally I would see little to no value in improving on it. YMMV.

@zavato  Knowing Linn, they will be both ridiculously priced and delusionally priced, LOL.