Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@daveyf. I am fully aware that the newer LP 12s are much better built in terms of materials and manufacturing tolerances. Fair point, however.

In Europe, a Clearaudio Innovation is under €11,000. That gets you two panzerholz/alu chassis, plus ceramic magnetic bearing, stainless/POM platter etc.

@daveyf Even if Linn have the cnc machinery, it probably isn't worth their while tying up a machine making those plinths given the volumes involved. More generally, very few audiophile hi fi manufacturers are vertically integrated - i.e make everything in house. But there's no easy rule about make / buy, decisions as they are called. SME is an example of a company with very high levels of vertical integration and it doesn't result in their turntables being particularly affordable.

@daveyf - btw, that price I quoted includes 20 percent EU sales tax!

Linn and its dealers cultivated a mythology about the need for "fettling" of the LP12.

God knows, I fettled enough of them to know, and to curse why the damn thing was so badly designed/toleranced in the first place.

Fans of the Who - and Tommy, in particular - may have a rather different interpretation of the term "fiddle".

Separately, the LP12 was also designed with undamped suspension - SME and modern Oracles have silicone damping for their suspensions.