Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
How about an Avid? The Ingenium might well be available within your wider budget, or possibly a Diva, and is pretty simple. Will see off an RP3 and a Clearaudio, imho.
You've carried out a direct comparison?How about an Avid? The Ingenium might well be available within your wider budget, or possibly a Diva, and is pretty simple. Will see off an RP3 and a Clearaudio, imho.
Not a shame for me Alan!
Thorens TD-320 MKII.
Very, very good drive and great arm.
I bought a cheap early model Linn without an arm and have slowly been bringing up to the level where the sound is good enough for me to stop. I changed the original power supply for a serviced Valhalla, changed the springs, lubricated the motor and spindle, then managed to find an Akito.
The Akito was the expensive part since it needed replacement bearings, so sent it to Audio Origami who did a great job. All up I've probably spent the initial cost (400) again on getting it to this level, but it's worth it.
Setting up isn't as hard as it sounds, especially since there are complete instructions on the Linn forum.
Wow thanks for all the replies everybody. The main thing worrying me about the Linn is buying one off ebay for £400-£600 (so definitely at the bottom end of their value) and finding I've bought little more than an expensive box of spares, then being unsure what's wrong with it or what to do about and it just turning into a money pit. Been stung too many times & starting to think most of ebay is full of people selling broken stuff that they really should throw away. Similarly I've not heard a decent LP12 to compare it to so also worried about forever wondering if what I've bought is even any good or not!