FS: Linn turntable

beed84

Bless her heart. Seems like your dad had far better ideas!  

boogieman

Probably worth trying the AVForums as well. 

Electro_Ham

Or Vinyl Engine? https://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/index.php

duotone

£850ish for the cartridge alone.  Wow!

Looks like a great bit of kit & im sure it will eventually find the right home.  Just be patient with it.

the_jaffa

I can't believe that this hasn't sold already. It's a bargain. I'm looking at getting just an Ittok arm and they go for £700+ on their own.

If I had the extra I'd definitely get this and make a cracking deck out of the best bits and have the lesser one to sell

TTony

the_jaffa said:

I can't believe that this hasn't sold already. It's a bargain. I'm looking at getting just an Ittok arm and they go for £700+ on their own.

If I had the extra I'd definitely get this and make a cracking deck out of the best bits and have the lesser one to sell

To be honest, I've not really been trying to sell it too actively .

You're not too far away from it either (deck is at my mum's in Cheshire),  so see if you can make the sums work ...

the_jaffa

I'd love to

Rocker

Be aware that an LP12 is not a plonk it down and use it turntable. The buyer would need to take the deck to a hi-fi dealer, one who sold Linns way back then, and get it serviced and the springs balanced. This is a doable DIY job but easier to get someone with the knowledge (and spare parts) to do it.

Phil_aka_Pip

TTony said:

beed84 said:

With a deck like that, I really think you should get in to vinyl.

Which reminds me of a conversation I had with my old mum a few weeks ago ...

Me:  "I've got rid of the amps, I've go the speakers, just the turntable to go now"

MyMum:  "Oh good, I want rid of all of it"

Me:  "Then we'll have to do something with all his old LPs"

MyMum:  "Oh no, I want to keep those"

Me:  "Errrmmmm, what for?"

MyMum:  "To listen to, silly!"

Me:  "But you wanted rid of all the kit that you needed to play them on ...."


She now wants "one of those old things like we used to have, with the record player and the speakers all in together".



He'd probably be spinning at 78rpm if he weren't cremated ...

Tell her about the little spirals of black plastic that come up either side of the needle when you play records on those things and how much worse they sound afterwards. Tell her about the floor footprint and volume of the radiogram compared with a space-saving rack of tuner, cd player, amplifier with the turntable on top. Tell her I think she's crazy!

That LP12 is a lovely bit of kit! Why don't you nab it?

TTony

Phil_aka_Pip said:

That LP12 is a lovely bit of kit! Why don't you nab it?

CDs sound much better played in my CD player.


I did consider it - briefly - @Phil_aka_Pip, before I sold off all the rest of his stuff (amps, power conditioners, cables, etc), but  it would never be used.    I use CDs for proper listening, flacs/mp3s for convenience.  Vinyl would never happen.

boogieman

Have you tried the AV Forums? https://www.avforums.com Their classified are pretty active

Rocker

TTony said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

That LP12 is a lovely bit of kit! Why don't you nab it?

CDs sound much better played in my CD player.


I did consider it - briefly - @Phil_aka_Pip, before I sold off all the rest of his stuff (amps, power conditioners, cables, etc), but  it would never be used.    I use CDs for proper listening, flacs/mp3s for convenience.  Vinyl would never happen.

I happen to agree with you @TTony. ; When you add in the cost of a decent phono stage, the fact that 12" vinyl disks are ridiculously overpriced and the storage space needed to accommodate the disks, FLACS or streaming looks more sensible.

A *good* vinyl setup sounds great.  Such quality does not come cheap.

TTony

boogieman said:

Have you tried the AV Forums? https://www.avforums.com Their classified are pretty active

I tried the Art of Sound forum - and sold a lot of his other specialist kit there.

The downside is that I encountered a lot of "specialist" questions too.  So, despite explaining that it was my (deceased) father's kit, and that I knew nothing about it, I had people saying that they were interested, but wouldn't buy unless I could tell them how many playing hours the cartridge had on it, or what the power supply in the deck was, or when it was last serviced (and who by, and did I have the certificate) etc ...

Others wanted this bit, or that bit, and why didn't I split the deck/arm/cart/isolation/PSunit and sell them all separately.  Errrm, I'd already explained that I wasn't going to do that, and why.

OK,  I get that it's expensive kit and people are entitled to ask questions, but some of the questions either suggested that they hadn't read the description, or just wanted to undermine the sale or demonstrate their level of "specialist" knowledge.  So, I sold some stuff easily/quickly (and with virtually no questions), but this seemed to attract the "specialists".



Bloody forums ...

darcym

I know someone not to far from Cheshire who maybe interested in this, I'll be right on him, I think he's away for Christmas though. 

viz

Wigwam - you’ll sell it in no time. 

boogieman

TTony said:

boogieman said:

Have you tried the AV Forums? https://www.avforums.com Their classified are pretty active

I tried the Art of Sound forum - and sold a lot of his other specialist kit there.

The downside is that I encountered a lot of "specialist" questions too.  So, despite explaining that it was my (deceased) father's kit, and that I knew nothing about it, I had people saying that they were interested, but wouldn't buy unless I could tell them how many playing hours the cartridge had on it, or what the power supply in the deck was, or when it was last serviced (and who by, and did I have the certificate) etc ...

Others wanted this bit, or that bit, and why didn't I split the deck/arm/cart/isolation/PSunit and sell them all separately.  Errrm, I'd already explained that I wasn't going to do that, and why.

OK,  I get that it's expensive kit and people are entitled to ask questions, but some of the questions either suggested that they hadn't read the description, or just wanted to undermine the sale or demonstrate their level of "specialist" knowledge.  So, I sold some stuff easily/quickly (and with virtually no questions), but this seemed to attract the "specialists".



Bloody forums ...

Ah fair enough.

Bloody forums, yes indeed. HiFi stuff does seem to attract a high level of know-alls and techno nerds. Likewise camera forum classifieds seem to be frequented by blokes with massive OCD issues (god help you if they find a single cat hair or a whiff of cigarette smoke on the box you send out, let alone the actual product.) 

mr-mac

Phil_aka_Pip said:

TTony said:

beed84 said:

With a deck like that, I really think you should get in to vinyl.

Which reminds me of a conversation I had with my old mum a few weeks ago ...

Me:  "I've got rid of the amps, I've go the speakers, just the turntable to go now"

MyMum:  "Oh good, I want rid of all of it"

Me:  "Then we'll have to do something with all his old LPs"

MyMum:  "Oh no, I want to keep those"

Me:  "Errrmmmm, what for?"

MyMum:  "To listen to, silly!"

Me:  "But you wanted rid of all the kit that you needed to play them on ...."


She now wants "one of those old things like we used to have, with the record player and the speakers all in together".



He'd probably be spinning at 78rpm if he weren't cremated ...

Tell her about the little spirals of black plastic that come up either side of the needle when you play records on those things and how much worse they sound afterwards. Tell her about the floor footprint and volume of the radiogram compared with a space-saving rack of tuner, cd player, amplifier with the turntable on top. Tell her I think she's crazy!

That LP12 is a lovely bit of kit! Why don't you nab it?

tbh not always true there were plenty of things like that came with good Lenco, Garrard or similar quality turntable units built in so just because it's an old fashioned piece of furniture some of which had crap in them it doesn't automatically follow all of them will re-cut your records.  bide time on gumtree and find one with good goldring lenco TT in it.  fit a new stylus and job should be a goodun

mr-mac

You can even find side board systems like this with early quad electronics or rogers valve or early solid state electronics if it has that and a good tt unit it can be a decent listen... It's better if speakers aren't built in though but match and stand alone 

TTony

darcym said:

I know someone not to far from Cheshire who maybe interested in this, I'll be right on him, I think he's away for Christmas though. 

A careful nudge (rather than a bump) and  @darcym

TTony

Visited my old mum last weekend, which reminded me that this is still available ...