Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@olskool   Nice to see you here again. Question, do you rank the Booplinth improvement in the same area as the bearing..ie. Cirkus to Karousel?  For me, that was one of the best upgrades regarding SQ, and also value wise. 

Personally, I have a feeling that a Booplinth gets one at least 90% of the way to the Bedrok plinth, but at a far lower price. The aspect of diminishing returns for money spent will be very evident with the various plinths, IMO.

@noromance  Agree. The banana junk was actually sold for $6.2M to a crypto genius. All of this could be considered as a spit in the eye to the waged, as you pointed out.

Hi daveyf, long time no talk!  Great to see you active here.  Since I’ve never heard the Bedrok I can’t speculate how much of a percentage the two play in comparison. As far as Cirkus to Karousel it was a surprisingly large improvement.  I will say however the BooPlinth was absolutely the largest single performance improvement to come through my LP12 and it would be quite a feat to outpace that by another plinth.  It seems Linn is confident in it based on list price.  Have we had a listening review of the actual table and plinth from someone who knows the sound with and without?

Olskool

It is odd that the plinth would have such an impact on a spring suspended turntable. I can easily understand the power supply, bearing, sub chassis, but plinth?
The fettlers I have talked to in the past all assured me that the plinth was the last area to gain any SQ…which did make some sense. Certainly when I swapped out my original Afro plinth for a new Oak plinth, there was a step up in SQ, but not comparable to the bearing swap out.

@olskool

I saw some comments by a guy who had heard a direct comparison between the BooPlinth and Bedrok. I think it was in one of the Linn Facebook groups. He said that he preferred the BooPlitnth.

Ok, it’s only one person’s opinion, but at least it suggests it’s not a slam dunk that the Bedrok is better. That’d be pretty amazing considering the £6,000 price difference.