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In Reply to: Re: Some thoughts on Linn's woes and other matters... (longish) posted by Rodney Gold on April 28, 2007 at 22:09:57:
I guess that very few buy a new LP12.Somewhere, somehow something went very wrong obviously for them to be in such a financial trouble.
A real creative wacky design they came up was the Isobarik and Kans which they moved away from a long time ago along with abandoning a long-time loyal customers and dealers.
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I talked to a Linn rep about this some years ago. He said that Ivor Tiefenbrun had told the company's staff that Linn would be the last turntable manufacturer on earth. Linn's recent announcement of the new "Keel" subchassis for the LP-12 shows that they're committed to the product. The Linn rep also said that tooling and machinery for the LP-12 were amortized long ago, and it now costs Linn little more than the price of the raw materials to run off a batch of LP-12s.
*Linn's recent announcement of the new "Keel" subchassis for the LP-12 shows that they're committed to the product.*
I would think that only for a very select market. Mainly in the Orient where an LP12 is still highly regarded.A new arm and a subchassis might have a bigger margin, but I'd think that they need a lot of volume to make a substantial profit.
I just don't see most of current LP12 users shelling out 5k$ for a Linn arm and 4k for a piece of metal, tbh.
If Ivor thinks that an LP12 can save the company, more power to him, but I am very skeptical.
As I wrote above, I got the info about the LP-12's manufacturing cost and Mr. Tiefenbrun's commitment to continue it's production straight from a Linn rep. By the way, I did not write anything like "if Ivor thinks that an LP12 can save the company..."; I don't know where you got that notion. Obviously Linn doesn't sell enough turntables to support a company with hundreds of employees. The point is that the LP-12s they do sell are quite profitable.
*The point is that the LP-12s they do sell are quite profitable. *
well, too bad that it's not enough.I was looking more from an overall picture where one product that is profitable is just a drop in a bucket.
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