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Re: The Linn philosophy is

I don't fully agree with the Linn model. It has some merit, but is not always the case.

We see many times in the audio mags what reviewers might assemble for a given price range. Of course depending on the reviewer, the components would be different. But the best one I ever read was a system at the 5K price point. This was many years ago, but the reviewers choice was a pair of Quad ESL63 coupled with a cheapy receiver and turntable.

I laughed quite a bit on that one because I completely agreed. That system, in all likelihood would blow away any system that Linn could possibly assemble. Not that better electronics and frontend would not improve things greatly. The point of the reviewers comments, and I must agree, is that the speaker has the largest impact on system quality, etc. The finest frontend and electronics coupled with a small box speaker(like what Linn was selling in the day) in no way could compete, IMO with the Quad ESL system as mapped out by the reviewer.

Ivors comments do have merit, but this line of thinking was basically but together in the late 70s early 80s as a way to better market the superiority of the LP12.

My priority would be speakers first. They have the largest bang for the buck, followed by the fronted and then the electronics. Audio is not photography and that is the model Linn would use. Just ain't the same thing. But it sure worked as an effective marketing tool for Linn. One must also remember that this is the same group that states cleaning records is bad, let your stylus do that job, and using sandpaper to clean your stylus is good.


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