Same applies to Rolex. Zing
get back in ya Skoda
Yes, and both have there blind followers
Lol Spacey, if roles were swapped we could've had:
"It spins 1000% faster than old legacy tables." =)
Darryl,
Was it worth the money compared with the competition and the decks it replaced IYO?
Why do you reckon so many audiophiles have relinquished it in favour of now vintage decks?
In case your wondering, my point did not relate to the LP12 as indicated in my post above but the point you made in your post about the generic approach to hifi gear as sold by the retailers.
well examples would be - i thought the roksan sounded vastly superior but being a young company roksan had some teething problems like power supplies failing but they offered good support for this as did linn with their own occasionally dodgy power supplies.
i also liked the gyro better than the linn....more attractive and better finish but again linn kept on improving their product even if it did get expensive.
i liked the pink triangle better too but they never had the build quality of linn.
the goldmund studio blew the linn out of the water but it was a lot more money....
the best made deck back then was probably the audio labor konstant
which was another deck that sounded vastly better than the linn.
but again dealers were put off taking them on....
the audio labor became the brinkmann......
Seriously though, Rolex are not in essence superior to Omega, but they've done a better job of brand management. There are parallels to linn in some ways.Greg, does anybody buy those monstrous watches?
Darryl,The only such list I have ever seen was in an 80s Japanese mag, I remeber the number 1, that did not include the vintage decks that the japanese now so seem to covet and which I accept are dependent on the arm.
Worse still is the amount of time decent people spend writing on a forum when they could make a differenceDo you think people who suffer from lack of food or water, or what we call 'basic human standards' would think any of this is anything but a material obsession?
Fugly
I think the definition of a hifi nerd is anybody who could seriously contemplate owning one of those...