Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

@daveyf 

The LP12-50s are all gone. Linn didn’t have the capacity to make the Bedrok plinth upgrade until they’d fulfilled all the LP12-50 orders. 

The improved sonic performance of the LP12-50 is not entirely due to the plinth. Also, there were other costs going into it than just the plinth. 

I really don’t think the average LP12-50 customer would care what has subsequently happened with the Bedrok upgrade.

It takes nothing away from the specialness of what they bought. OK, that specialness wouldn’t appeal to the likes of you and me, but they look at it differently from us. The only person I know who bought one is the director of a hifi retailing company.

All other things being equal, there’s no way Linn would charge more than they have to for an upgrade. That just isn’t in their best strategic interests. It’s a fact of life that the more a product costs the less units are sold. The more top notch LP12s are out there and the more competitively priced they are, the better it is for the future of Linn. They envisage more LP12 upgrades in future and need a market for them.

They are not going to shoot themselves in the foot by unnecessarily pricing their products any higher than they need to be to pay for their R&D and sustain their profits. That would risk killing the golden goose.

@newton_john   I believe there is a LP12 50th on this site for sale. Has been listed for a while now, and at a discounted price. Also, I have heard that they are actually not sold out yet.

"No way Linn would charge more than they have to for an upgrade"??? LOL. OK.

@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!