Linn Sondek- Origin Live upgrades anyone?

I can't speak about the Origin Live upgrades but I am now on to my second Sondek after stupidly selling the first one! They sound great in stock form! Mount a good or better arm and cartridge and the LP12 is still a contender - even sans upgrades! For the cost of a tricked-out Linn the newest Technics DD is a better value - and costs less!

Haven't tried those exact ones for Linn, but I have used a couple tone arms, turntable, mat, belt, cartridge enabler and record weight. If the Linn upgrades are anything like those they will be well worth the money. I would suggest try the belt, mat and record weight first. The Gravity One record weight in particular, it is obvious even before using this is something different. Far outperforms all other weights and clamps I have tried, including my favorite DIY from carbon fiber. The belt also is unlike any other I have seen, with a pattern that appears to be some kind of weave and a warning to test stretch too much even though it is perfectly flexible and does stretch and hold a nice tension. 

Buying into Linn is buying into  upgrades forever. Audiophilia nervosa. It never stops. Get off the merry-go-round

I’m no Linn fan, but even so they are fine tables and that is unfair, and off-topic. Please delete. Thanks!

I tried the 'Advanced' speed control box/motor back when I owned an LP-12 (we're going back well over 10 years) and was unimpressed.  The DC motor was decent enough, but the speed drifted like crazy since it was/is an open-loop controller, without any platter/motor feedback to the controller.  DC motors need some type of rigid feedback system (whether at the platter or in the gearhead itself) to provide constant, real-time feedback to the controller - I've never heard an open-loop DC controller for a brushed DC motor that was worth a damn (though Mark Kelly came close).

The Linn 'sound' is in part predicated around a synchronous AC motor (at least up until the Radikal).  It is, IMO, part of what makes the LP-12 an enjoyable (albeit inaccurate) transcriber.  You'd be better off with a used Lingo.

millercarbon it is not off topic at all. You can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse. The Linn has certain design failings that damn it forever. It is just that for an extended period in the late 70's early 80's it was the best turntable you could buy. I owned two of them. There is no "upgrade" that can fix it. Instead of wasting money it would be a better approach to save up for a new turntable. A Sota Sapphire will handily thump it.

Another thread wherein naysayers with no experience with the LP12 are happy to come on and put their 2 cents in!
Mijostyn, maybe I should go on Sota Sapphire threads and post about how the Linn from this century can ’handily thump it’...even though I have no experience with the current Sota Sapphire and last owned a Sota Sapphire back in the 80’s?
I have no experience with the Origin Live aftermarket products, so I have refrained from coming here, but I suspect that the Linn upgrades are at least as good, and I like keeping my table Linn based. The Linn upgrades are all well worth what they do...with the new Karousel bearing being a tremendous upgrade and fundamental.
Now back to the naysayers who have never heard any LP12 ( at least for the last 40 years..and maybe not even then) telling us to buy their favorite table ( insert Crossley, or its ilk here !).

The LP12 was popular among the cognoscenti of the late 70's because right out of the carton it did NO harm to the music - and it cost a mere $450! Two compelling reasons to own one! Yes, Ivor Tieffenbraun found a way to extract money from the obsessed by promoting ever more expensive "upgrades" for what is still an excellent TT! Disclaimer: I use one in stock form - and am happy!

@jasonbourne52 Since you own a stock LP12 ( not sure what that is...presumably you mean a LP12 Majik version)... why would you not believe that the Akurate model and/or the Klimax model are not superior? There are significant upgrades that Linn has done to the table over the years to increase its resolving ability and therefore its SQ. If you are happy with your status quo, that’s fine, just don’t naysay the upgrades, as they are truly that.

@daveyf : It's an early 80's LP12 with a Grace 707/Denon 103D. In fact my second one! Bought from an eBay seller in Britain a few years ago. My first one was a few years younger (late 70's) and it too had a Grace 707 arm with a Grado G1. So both LP12's are from the pre-upgrade era. I regret selling the first one about 15 years ago - though I did keep the 707 arm!

@jasonbourne52  If you get the opportunity to hear what the various upgrades have elicited over the many years since your LP12 was new, i highly recommend you do so. You may be surprised at how far the table has come since your vintage.