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That one does take the record, at least out of those I've seen. #22 Was offered for sale on a Canadian classified site a couple of years ago, and as I reported earlier in the thread, #34 was on Ebay in the USA a while back. Someone told me that LP12s before #100 are really leftover Ariston...

I'm always interested in very early LP12s. Does yours have a single red rocker power switch, or the separate green and white on and off switches? Thanks

LP12 #2717 is mounted in an SME-2000 plinth.

Cool, one of the two-rib subchassis as I mentioned on page 7. It's interesting that it has the flat red power button and not the rocker switch. LP12s in the late 3000s had the rocker, so the change must have come around #4000. This LP12 also has the same two-rib subchassis, so it's...

Who's knocking anything? I'm just presenting facts, and I don't need your lessons about semantics, thank you.

I can't give you an exact date, but was certainly before anyone had seen an LP12! The TD-125 entered production in 1968, and the early ones had a captured ball bearing. The change to the radiused tip bearing came later in the Mk 1 run, and the switchover to the Mk2 was in late 1971. All of this...

Not true. The switch from the captive ball to the radiused tip shaft came as a running change to the TD-125 Mk1.

Thorens was using the radiused tip single point bearing well before Linn. http://www.theanalogdept.com/images/spp6_pics/Web_Thorens/subplatterassy.jpg

Earlier RD11s had an unpainted silver subchassis without the ribs. Perhaps the ribs were part of Ivor's improvements. I've also seen two versions of the ribbed subchassis, one with just the two lateral ribs, and the one in your picture with the additional cross rib.

You can see the 1973 Linn ad here on my Facebook page. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/64088_1610828032037_1276322218_1705412_6847507_n.jpg Here's an early RD11 https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/59654_1610843592426_1276322218_1705451_3036489_n.jpg And...

FWIW, Peter Swain has been explaining his LP12 setup procedures as "a brief overview" over in the Linn forum. It's a nice well-informed thread, covering all the tricks and tips they used to indoctrinate all of us who set up LP12s at dealerships with back in the 70s and 80s. Thread has been going...

The Wikipedia article is conflating two ads that Linn ran around the same time. The first one had a notepad with a list of failed formats written on it like Elcaset, 8 track, etc, and each name had been crossed out implying that it had failed. The final format on the list was Compact Disc, and...

I can see no reason to split the tones between the left and right channels. This just introduces tracking problems for the cartridge. All cutting setups mono the bass below 50Hz anyway. I would suggest a mono cut with a constant 3150Hz tone at low level, plus a loud 20Hz tone that pulses on for...

It's an old spare platter.

Linn (left) and Roksan (right) outer platters.