Linn LP12 Owners.

[rollo]

 Hey Bill sorry for the delay. OK, lets start. Linn has a Trampolin mod that did wonders for mine. However I believe you can do better for less.  Your problem is loose floor etc. I would find and use the wall mounted unit. Isn't the wall behind your speakers the original masonry with sheetrock over ? If so your in. Use threaded SS rods into the masonry set in epoxy. If not drill into wood studs and place some visco elastic dampening between brass washers and the rack. The cones you are presently using to decouple the TT are not affective. You are using a hard to hard contact.
   Buy some mapleshade Isoblocks [4] and place under a nice piece of Maple or Butherblock. Then buy a set of Micropoint heavy feet. Total cost under $200 [ call Sidney Goldberg ].
    If you use the wall mounted unit then all you need are the Micropoint Heavy feet. I would change the composite shelf for a piece of Maple sometime down the road.



charles

[rollo]

You need to get this guy to come over and rebalance the turntable, set the spring tension and dampening, level it all out and bless it with the Linn holy water. He charges by the hour and it takes about 3 hours to accomplish. Oh yeah, this only needs to be done once every 6 months and airfare and single malt are on you.

         Nah! a new belt every every couple of  years and thats it. No need to climb the mod trail. I would say the Lingo power supply upgrade is the only one worth the money IMO.  Made a huge difference for me. The other mods offer improvement however not worth the money in the bang for the buck department. The Keel sounds interesting but again the numbers are just greedy. Ivor needs new shoes and a Rolls. "F" him

[Emil]

You need to get this guy to come over and rebalance the turntable, set the spring tension and dampening, level it all out and bless it with the Linn holy water. He charges by the hour and it takes about 3 hours to accomplish. Oh yeah, this only needs to be done once every 6 months and airfare and single malt are on you.

"If its not Scottish, its craaaap"

Its funny if you say it in a Scottish accent

[Barry (NJ)]

Any recommendations for an inexpensive cartridge? I was just given a Linn Sondek LP12 w/ a Linn Basik LV V arm, but it has no cartridge/needle. I also still have my old, Shure SME 3009 series II improved non-detachable shell tonearm, that I could probably get/make an arm-board for and mount that up if it's a better arm.

Would this one do the job?

Any help/guidance would be great.

[tmazz]

Linns are strange animals and I have never known anyone who as had any real luck changing out a Linn arm. I would just leave it be unless you could get a better Linn arm. I have a friend with an LP 12 who has been using Grado cartridges with it for as long as I've known him (25+ years), although his is fitted with an Ittock, not a Basik arm (for whatever that's worth). IMO, that will be a real nice sounding rig just as it sits. Have fun.

[richidoo]

Barry if you want to try it, just PM me your addy. It's not in the same league as the Linn, but could be a decent backup for when you find your main squeeze pickup.

[rollo]

 The Micro Benz line works very well with the LP12. I use a M2 wood body. Perfer it to my Arkiv actually.


charles

[Barry (NJ)]

Thanks guys! I'm not a total n00b to vinyl, but it has been more than 2 decades since I've run a vinyl rig, so I'm a bit rusty. I ended up grabbing the Shure from Rich. I figure for $30, it'll get me back into the grove   I have an Audio Aalchemy VAC in the Box phono-stage, it has adjustments for both input impedance and gain via jumpers on the main board. They're not that difficult to get to, and I probably won't be changing them much once it's dialed in.

FWIW, when I was in high-school I'd built a plinth from 1" thick birch-ply, concrete, and foam layers. I mounted a Rek-O-Cut idler drive motor/platter, and the Shure SME arm with a Sonus Gold Blue Label cartridge. It was a pretty sweet set-up for a 16 year old back in 1980   I used it through college, but it was to heavy to move around so it was dismantled when I came back east. Now all I have left of it is the SME arm.

Anyone know of any good Linn set-up tutorials available on the web?

[Barry (NJ)]

Well since there were no responses to my query for set-up info. I hit google and found these.

Enjoy...

http://www.highendaudio.co.za/pdf_documents/HEA%20LP12%20Setup.pdf

http://www.audiocostruzioni.com/p_u/manuali/Lp12setup.doc

http://www.n.mackie.btinternet.co.uk/linn/tlp12faq.html

http://www.sondek-turntable.com/index.htm
http://www.sondek-turntable.com/sondek-turntable-2.htm
http://www.sondek-turntable.com/sondek-turntable-3.htm