LINN AMPS

I agree with Kennyt. It's very cost effective too if you buy used. To my ears this was a huge improvement. Something you may wish to also consider is replacing your preamp with a quality tube unit. I found this out accidentally when I was assembling a turntable for a friend. His new cartridge was on the lower end, output-wise, of my Linn preamp. The preamp he had bought had a better phono stage match so he brought it over and we put it in my system. About 15 seconds into the first cut we discovered that my system sounded so much better it was incredible. Speed and driver control, sound stage width and depth, inner details and every other aspect of the presentation was improved by a large margin. I'm certainly not trashing the Linn preamps, especially the well regarded Kairn. The preamp we tried that day was a Supratek Syrah and after a couple of lesser units were tried in my system that is what i now own. No matter what you do I'd suggest getting informed about every Linn upgrade path. You'd really be surprised at the level of playback I enjoy with my Keilidh's and LK 100's. My amps are now my weakest link (not bad at all, just the next logical upgrade) and I could choose a tune box to house the Aktiv cards and keep the Keilidh's. Otherwise new speakers and amps would be replaced simultaneously. I hope I haven't cunfused the issue here but this is such a major homerun in audio I just had to share it.