adamslim;198685 Wrote: > Mr T of Linn in the 70s demonstrated this with his Sondek turntable - > everyone thought sources and amps were almost identical, and you just > needed to spend on speakers. With Linn, they were selling systems with > £1k turntables and £100 on each of the amp and speakers (!). Actually, at the time, there was absolutely no dispute that pickup cartridges sounded radically different, nor even that pickup arms had a major influence. What everyone did tend to believe was that the turntable itself - just the bit that turns the LP round & round - would have no bearing (no pun intended) on the sound, provided things like wow & flutter and rumble were suitably low.
What Tifenbrun managed to persuade (nearly) everyone through clever use of marketing smoke and mirrors was that the turntable itself was *the most important* part of the system. Hence stupidly unbalanced systems that used a Linn LP12 with a cheap Acos Lustre arm and low-end cartridge feeding a NAD 3020 and a pair of Videotone Minimaxes. The most amazing thing is how long it took before the con was widely exposed. (And by the way: I was one of those who were suckered in. I still own an LP12. It's a fine turntable but it's not the philosopher's stone that it was made out to be back in the 70s and 80s. If I were in the market for a turntable today, the LP12 wouldn't even be on the shortlist). -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34849
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