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In-depth article on Linn Factory

Nice article, but the hifi must have been distorting for the Ticket to Ride at the end of DSOTM to sound like Penny Lane :)

Tim
 
iirc they make a lot of stuff for the military, not sure what it is as the program i saw it was all "classified" i also believe they kitted out the new queen mary cruise ship or some other new expensive cruise ship, so i think that's kept them alive when vinyl started to shrink
 
So Ivor started experimenting, including putting his turntable outside the living room and running the cables under the door. This sounded better. Then with colleagues at his father’s engineering company he developed a turntable that used existing design elements and components, but for very different reasons, such as for acoustic isolation rather than shock resistance. And thus the Linn Sondek LP12 was born.
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It is fairly unusual to see both SMT pick and place assembly and CNC in the same (rather small) building
 
I don't think I will quite ever understand the slightly smug attitudes I see here about various UK companies(typically Naim /Linn/?). I would think it would be a bit admirable to cheer these relatively small companies on, even if it isn't your "cup of tea".

Keeping jobs that pay decent wages and those that encourage technology seems a win thing to me. I know here in the US where we have plenty of things we could be smug about, I certainly am glad that we can still keep some hifi manufacturing and small specialist businesses going. There seems to be plenty of hifi for everyone.
 
I agree Tim, of course Linn hifi is not for everyone, but it's quite an impressive set up and history would indicate that they are providing a good service to their customers and operating a sustainable successful business.

I'm well aware of the controversy that surrounds the origination of the company and it's first product, the LP12, but clearly they have moved on from that and run a successful company. No easy thing given the industry they're in.
 
TimF said:
I don't think I will quite ever understand the slightly smug attitudes I see here about various UK companies(typically Naim /Linn/?). I would think it would be a bit admirable to cheer these relatively small companies on, even if it isn't your "cup of tea".

Keeping jobs that pay decent wages and those that encourage technology seems a win thing to me. I know here in the US where we have plenty of things we could be smug about, I certainly am glad that we can still keep some hifi manufacturing and small specialist businesses going. There seems to be plenty of hifi for everyone.
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Linn is a successful company but the story about Tiefenbrun pinching the bearing design from Hamish Roberston who then committed suicide after losing everything in the court case has never sat well with me.

Isn't Ivor back in charge now after his inept son nearly ran it into the ground a few years back?
 
TimF said:
I don't think I will quite ever understand the slightly smug attitudes I see here about various UK companies(typically Naim /Linn/?). I would think it would be a bit admirable to cheer these relatively small companies on, even if it isn't your "cup of tea".

Keeping jobs that pay decent wages and those that encourage technology seems a win thing to me. I know here in the US where we have plenty of things we could be smug about, I certainly am glad that we can still keep some hifi manufacturing and small specialist businesses going. There seems to be plenty of hifi for everyone.
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This.

TPA said:
I agree Tim, of course Linn hifi is not for everyone, but it's quite an impressive set up and history would indicate that they are providing a good service to their customers and operating a sustainable successful business.

I'm well aware of the controversy that surrounds the origination of the company and it's first product, the LP12, but clearly they have moved on from that and run a successful company. No easy thing given the industry they're in.
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And this.
thebiglebowski said:
Linn is a successful company but the story about Tiefenbrun pinching the bearing design from Hamish Roberston who then committed suicide after losing everything in the court case has never sat well with me.

Isn't Ivor back in charge now after his inept son nearly ran it into the ground a few years back?
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And as for Hamish Robertson committing suicide, I think that's a story fabricated by the anti linn brigade.

Hamish Robertson continued designing turntables long after the RD11 but I belive he drank himself to death, which is still a tragic end to a great engineer who linn do owe an awful lot to.

Regardless, linn make great products and keep manufacturing in the UK creating lots of jobs.
 
I don't think I will quite ever understand the slightly smug attitudes I see here about various UK companies(typically Naim /Linn/?). I would think it would be a bit admirable to cheer these relatively small companies on, even if it isn't your "cup of tea".
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Quite agree. Do make sure you include the right ones:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/2041339/LINN-Sondek-LP12-Special-Edition

PS It would be nice if more than one (reported) copy of the plinth could be made available - unless another smaller company could help...
 
The writing style of the article stopped me reading the article

"I also noticed occasionally someone would walk through this part of the building, to get to another, as here is the main staircase of this enterprise."

too many words - too many redundant words
 
That's not a normal car park, that's a Linn Kar Park.

They were lucky with the weather, normally you can't see the hills.
 
I've been there too. Personally I found the building and atmosphere as unispiring as their products..
(ducks behind sofa)
 
Martyn Miles said:
This will start that old story up again about Beatles' music being heard on Pink Floyd records.
Yawn...
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It's something very specific in this case. At the end of Eclipse, if you wind up the volume, you can hear an orchestral version of Ticket to Ride on the right channel. It's on the master but some releases fix it by tinkering.

I doubt it was playing in the next room though, more likely a used tape or something like that.

Tim
 
Derek Wright said:
The writing style of the article stopped me reading the article

"I also noticed occasionally someone would walk through this part of the building, to get to another, as here is the main staircase of this enterprise."

too many words - too many redundant words
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Pleonasm.
 
TimF said:
I don't think I will quite ever understand the slightly smug attitudes I see here about various UK companies(typically Naim /Linn/?). I would think it would be a bit admirable to cheer these relatively small companies on, even if it isn't your "cup of tea".

Keeping jobs that pay decent wages and those that encourage technology seems a win thing to me. I know here in the US where we have plenty of things we could be smug about, I certainly am glad that we can still keep some hifi manufacturing and small specialist businesses going. There seems to be plenty of hifi for everyone.
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Correct. I mentioned this elsewhere on the forum and some people commented they didn't care where their hifi was made - in the context of it's nice to buy homegrown hifi.

Good for Linn showing off their factory (again!!). If you're aspiring to work for a hifi company and you live in Glasgow then there's one on your doorstep. I imagine this will inspire more than being told to catch a flight to China. Then again advice such as "start your own" would also be good.
 
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