Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@dover

The guy is Gordon Inch at Linn. I found him to be very approachable.

He’ll no doubt be interested to hear your views on turntable set up.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bx1f5zKML/

Let me know how you get on.

@newton_john Tonight I asked a well respected mechanical engineer if the Linn bearing that Dover and others claims is not put together accurately, is in fact that. The gentleman told me that clearly the folks denigrating the Linn bearing design really do not understand how this particular Linn bearing functions.

Dover and the other naysayers clearly have a lot to discover...as you are pointing out.LOL.

@daveyf

Thank you.

In the days before social media, we used to think every village only had one idiot.

@daveyf 

It's basic engineering - you always put a smear of oil on both parts - housing and spindle to avoid scoring. If you rewatch the video when he first puts the spindle in the first time ( with no oil on the spindle ) he puts it in on an angle - scraping the top of the bearing housing.

I rewatched the video - few other items of concern

He drops the tonearm with delicate bearings straight onto the hard surface of the table - you can hear it clunk as he clumsily puts it down. I always place arms on soft pads to protect them.

Then he checks the vertical tracking force with the arm out of level. Most folk on this forum know that the tracking force will change when the vta is altered.

He should be checking the tracking force when the arm is level.

I also notice that when he checks the tracking force he manages to drop the lid and send it across the deck and almost wipes out the cantilever.

If this is the top Linn guy so be it.

Oh and he reckons the Linn should bounce evenly in a "pistonic" motion.

but of course it doesn't - watch the video - when he bounces the platter the side the tonearm sits on bounces much more ( the motion is higher and lower )than the other side - the whole thing is bouncing sideways, certainly not evenly let alone pistonic.

No If I spent $60k on a turntable I would not want that guy touching it.