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The Best Audio Engineers

Jacques Barriere " Jack of all trades master of some" inventer of the proper set up of the lazy boy recliner in conjunction with 2 channal HI-FI.
 
And some french people, the youngest well known in UK is also my friend....
Guy Lamotte for original designs when he was working for Naim :
Aro tonearm, NAT01 Tuner, elctrostatic FL1 speakers.... and he was also involved in the Armagedon power supply for the LP12
Joseph Léon, founder of Elipson loudspeakers
André Charlin for many inventions in music replay, see there : http://www.svalander.se/charlin/ACbioeng.htm
Jacques
 
garyi said:
Actually I have seen an Ariston RD11 in the flesh and seriously the LP12 is a total rip.
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Oh Yes the white Ariston, the other Scottish TT. The suspension bounce like 75 Ford Pinto. I preferred the sound of Systemdek back then. Both are now gone to our land fills.
 
I think the LP12 is a triumph of opportunism & marketing, rather than engineering. But it's a good enough record deck.
 
Jack Barriere said:
Ivor Tiefenbrun "LINN" went out and bought a turntable and was amazed how badly built and how it sounded better when taken out of the room. Having access to a machine shop set about to build a proper bearing with help from the A&R, 3-point suspension. LINN was born. Hence the Sondek, the most respected table on the planet in some circles. He invented the "garbage in, garbage out" analogy as we come to accept as music lovers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linn_Products#Origins

"Linn began as an offshoot of Castle Precision Engineering (Glasgow) Ltd., a company now specialising in CNC machining, and many of the methods and processes of precision engineering form the philosophy behind the production of Linn's audio components. It was founded in 1973 by Ivor Tiefenbrun to produce the Sondek LP12 turntable, which utilises a suspended sub-chassis and an "innovative single-point platter bearing" machined to extremely tight tolerances. Suspending the platter- and tonearm-bearing subchassis from springs, an innovation pioneered by the US company Acoustic Research, was extremely efficient in isolating the system from loudspeaker and floor-induced acoustic feedback. The Sondek's subsequent success was also instrumental in reestablishing the superiority of belt-driven turntables, which were then thought to be old-fashioned compared with the supposedly more modern direct-driven ones.

Hamish Robertson designed the Ariston RD11 in 1971 with Castle Precision Engineering Ltd machining many of the parts. Robertson left Ariston, which had been taken over by Dunlop Westayr Ltd and reorganised as Ariston Audio Ltd. In February 1973 Linn Products Ltd. was formed to sell turntables made by Castle Precision Engineering. This was officially announced in an advertisement in Hi-Fi News & Record Review, with the following text: "The turntable previously available under the name Ariston RD11 is now available under the name Linn LP12."[1] There were claims, and even patent litigation at the time, that the first Linn Sondek LP12 was a carbon copy of the RD11, and many parts interchangeable.[2]."


Hmmmmmmm.
 
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