Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@daveyf 

There may be the odd dealer that still has an LP12-50 that they ordered not allocated to a specific customer, but that doesn’t change what I said.

Don’t resort to the low trick of distorting what I said by quoting part selectively without the provisos. I thought you were better than that. 

Take a deep breath and read it again in context carefully with an open mind for goodness sake. Don’t act like one of the rabid Linn haters.

Of course, Linn are in it to make money, but no strategically savvy company is going to chase excessive short term profit to the detriment of long term success. Linn are privately owned and not subject to the pressures of the demands of the stock market wanting to make a quick buck. They’ve been at it for more than fifty years now.

Note that as I said previously, it’s possible in the case of the Bedrok that Linn may have applied a higher margin than normal because supply is limited - rationing by price. 

Let’s be nice and be measured in our posts. Avoid the smart ass comments please.

@newton_john 

‘’Avoid the smart ass comments please’’

Well said sir, Bravo!

Before posting….

Read thoroughly-think about it-formulate your answer-write succinctly.

We can and should observe decorum at all times….it is the bedrok (sorry l spelt that wrong)….the bedrock of civilised society.

@newton_john  Look again at the sentence you posted. Unfortunately, it is common practice these days for companies to want to maximize profits. Linn are no different in this regard. The fact that Linn outsources the Bedrok plinth means that they are at the mercy of their supplier. ( yes, supply is limited, limited to the amount they can make!)  The price asked of a wooden plinth, particularly here in the US, is bordering on an insult. Why, because among other reasons, there are several respectable complete turntables that one can acquire for similar money, or even less.

We have to remember that there are also numerous middle men involved in high end sales, these folk are absolutely interested in only one thing...maximum profits!

The comments are not ’smart ass’, but they are not naive either!

@newton_john

It is striking how little progress has been made in fundamental physics since I was at university fifty years ago, despite the huge expenditure incurred. So far, string theory hasn’t produced a single experimentally testable finding. The only tangible result we have is the confirmation of the Higgs Boson which was postulated in the sixties.

I think it depends on how narrowly you define fundamental physics!  The great breakthroughs are best confirmed if seemingly unlikely predictions are discovered later to be true.  It took about 100 years before experimenters discovered the gravity waves predicted by Einstein.  The Standard Model of particle physics was good theory until the predicted Higgs boson was discovered decades later.  Nobody knows if string theory is just a theory, or maybe m-branes fit better?

The Big Bang theory was a nice theory until the predicted cosmic background microwave radiation was accidentally ’discovered’ by researchers who weren’t looking for it, and did not know what it was when they found it!  Did not stop them getting a Nobel prize.

To me the most profound recent development comes from detailed analysis of the fine structure of the cosmic background microwave radiation, which is absolutely uniform to within 1 part in 50,000.  Cosmology has only recently become a hard science, and the fine structure is believed to come from quantum effects in the very early universe, for the first time linking the very large to the very small.  We now have a pretty good handle on the detailed evolution of our universe, and possible multi-verses

We also have another new window into our own evolution, through the mapping of RNA and DNA changes from very early organisms.

I for one am happy with some by-products of pure research, like the www and WiFi.  All thanks in some measure to technicians like your great uncle

@daveyf

The way you took part of my argument out of context and added  "??? LOL. OK."  was glib and disingenuous, not to mention downright rude.

You can add your dear leader with his 20% import tariff to list of middle men pushing up the price of Linn Products in the US. Unless of course he has a last minute change of heart on a British carve out, given the balance of trade between our respective counties.