I was receiving The Absolute Sound in rural Iowa as a high schooler. The Linn Sondek's sales literature was a compelling read. I've never even SEEN a Linn, but I dreamed of having one.
I never heard of them my dad actually gave me a box and he had no clue what any of it was 15 years later I finally got around to putting it together and never really wanted to part it out cuz I want to see what the big deal is why they're so expensive! But just to say the sound is not disappointing!!
I used to dream of finding one in a charity shop... These days, with the internet, charity shops can research anything that comes through their doors, so... I'm not likely to find one. Dream 2 was to cobble one together from parts! I have the same dream with the expensive Concept 2 PM5 rowing machine! In its 50 years, the Sondek has been through thousands of changes to get the best sound, some cheap-ish(!), some hair-raising! The 50 year anniversary model costs $60,000, with design touches from Apple's former designer Jonny Ives. Though I never found a cheap Sondek, I was excited to inherit a massive Garrard 401 transcription deck, built like a tank, and I modded and modded an old Rega tonearm to improve them. It was a lot of fun, I learned so much, and as I'm unfortunately very sensitive to pitch, being able to fine tune the 401's speed was a big deal. I think I got rid of the original plinth but, anyway, I housed it in a massive multilayer chipboard plinth, rounded the corners and gave it a piano-key-black finish. I think these days I would use MDF! In the end, it was so big, so heavy, I replaced it with a Rega Planar 3, which frustratingly, using the same Rega RB300 tonearm, didn't sound as good but it was decent enough and, yep, had to replace the belt on that! Have fun trying various hopefully-affordable upgrades! Subscribed!
Thank you so much and thank you for watching! Yeah it's sad that charity shops are just not what they used to be! Charity shops pretty much where I bought a lot of my albums one particular store was 25 cents when I was a kid and they kept that price all the way till about 5 years ago and now they're $2 to $5 each. So my album buying kind of slows down after that! Which is probably a blessing. 😂
That's pretty awesome!! I don't know if you heard of Klipsch speaker one of the best sounding speakers in the '80s and 90s my opinion! So my dad has a pair I can't remember the model name but it has a Tweeter horn mid-range horn 15-in woofer and in the rear is a 15 inch radius woofer! I've never heard speakers sound as good as those do. But they were built right down the road from where we live in Hope ,Arkansas!
@@cheapandeasymods Sorry, I have never heard of Klipsch speaker, but that's great that they were built down the road from where you live. It's a pity your country, mine and others can't start making great stuff again and stop all that junk coming in from China. Thanks again. Frank
ive got some old hifi stuff in my loft from the early 80s, Denon, marantz, things like that, what i find mostly is the rubber drive belts sort of melt, perish. but the rest of the electronics seem fine.. I love old hifi, you just cant beat it.
I'm a big fan of Denon! Yeah this pioneer turntable I got has never been used .So I tore it apart and the belt was still on. But when I touched the belt it disintegrated! That's pretty wild!
That's the Contrology power board. Be very careful as it has a live ground plane and its easy to get a nasty shock as it uses a capacitor dropper. I used to work in Contrology who made these boards for Linn. Techs were always getting shocks from them. Later one's were made by Mullard.
Interested to see how this goes.... I have a Sondek from around this time. still working. so i don't need to rewire etc. but it is SOOO sensitive to me walking around ( I have a wooden floor) that i suspect it needs balancing for the floating subassembly. Hopefully you will have some useful info on how to set this up!
That was exactly what I was just about to say A wall mount would be the best option that's what I had to do when I lived in an old house with wooden floors. Luckily I moved everything down in our basement nice hard concrete floor ain't nothing shaking! 😂 It does we're in trouble!
A lot of "High end" cable places don't solder anymore, just good crimping with some sort of anti corrosion/arcing compounds. Don't know if it's better or not. Thought Linn's came with dedicated power supply. Pretty sure they do.
I don't see how crimping a wire is going to be better than soldering. That's just my opinion! Well my Linn record player didn't have a power supply but that doesn't mean that they didn't have one at one time. So I'm still learning about the Linn record player! Thank you for letting me know I will definitely look into this that would definitely make more sense!
@cheapandeasymods Just thinking back,my experience with LP12 is a bit dated. I've never seen a 110/240 supply motor on a good record player, keeping the frequency at 50/60hz would be impossible. I think this has been modified. Apart from the frequency, the safety issues of mains power directly to a record deck with a metal turntable would never be passed as safe under regulation in the UK. I wouldn't connect it to mains power at all.
Exactly that's why I want to try to get this thing working to see what it's all about. Going to start fine-tuning it getting it adjusted just right and then we'll give it the ultimate test! Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!
I was receiving The Absolute Sound in rural Iowa as a high schooler. The Linn Sondek's sales literature was a compelling read. I've never even SEEN a Linn, but I dreamed of having one.
I never heard of them my dad actually gave me a box and he had no clue what any of it was 15 years later I finally got around to putting it together and never really wanted to part it out cuz I want to see what the big deal is why they're so expensive! But just to say the sound is not disappointing!!
I used to dream of finding one in a charity shop...
These days, with the internet, charity shops can research anything that comes through their doors, so... I'm not likely to find one. Dream 2 was to cobble one together from parts! I have the same dream with the expensive Concept 2 PM5 rowing machine! In its 50 years, the Sondek has been through thousands of changes to get the best sound, some cheap-ish(!), some hair-raising! The 50 year anniversary model costs $60,000, with design touches from Apple's former designer Jonny Ives.
Though I never found a cheap Sondek, I was excited to inherit a massive Garrard 401 transcription deck, built like a tank, and I modded and modded an old Rega tonearm to improve them. It was a lot of fun, I learned so much, and as I'm unfortunately very sensitive to pitch, being able to fine tune the 401's speed was a big deal. I think I got rid of the original plinth but, anyway, I housed it in a massive multilayer chipboard plinth, rounded the corners and gave it a piano-key-black finish. I think these days I would use MDF! In the end, it was so big, so heavy, I replaced it with a Rega Planar 3, which frustratingly, using the same Rega RB300 tonearm, didn't sound as good but it was decent enough and, yep, had to replace the belt on that!
Have fun trying various hopefully-affordable upgrades! Subscribed!
Thank you so much and thank you for watching! Yeah it's sad that charity shops are just not what they used to be! Charity shops pretty much where I bought a lot of my albums one particular store was 25 cents when I was a kid and they kept that price all the way till about 5 years ago and now they're $2 to $5 each. So my album buying kind of slows down after that! Which is probably a blessing. 😂
These record players were made in my hometown of Glasgow, Scotland. Amazing!
That's pretty awesome!! I don't know if you heard of Klipsch speaker one of the best sounding speakers in the '80s and 90s my opinion! So my dad has a pair I can't remember the model name but it has a Tweeter horn mid-range horn 15-in woofer and in the rear is a 15 inch radius woofer! I've never heard speakers sound as good as those do. But they were built right down the road from where we live in Hope ,Arkansas!
@@cheapandeasymods Sorry, I have never heard of Klipsch speaker, but that's great that they were built down the road from where you live.
It's a pity your country, mine and others can't start making great stuff again and stop all that junk coming in from China.
Thanks again.
Frank
100% agree!!
ive got some old hifi stuff in my loft from the early 80s, Denon, marantz, things like that, what i find mostly is the rubber drive belts sort of melt, perish. but the rest of the electronics seem fine.. I love old hifi, you just cant beat it.
I'm a big fan of Denon! Yeah this pioneer turntable I got has never been used .So I tore it apart and the belt was still on. But when I touched the belt it disintegrated! That's pretty wild!
Mine did 😆
It sounds fabulous (new cartridge) 😊
What cartridge are you running? The one that was on my tone arm already looks brand new it's a Blue Point. I've heard the Blue Point is pretty good.
@ I just put
a Audio Technica AT-ОС9ХЕВ MC Cartridge
I was trained to do the Linn LP12 and I do have one that's from 1976.
That's awesome ! So did you do all the upgrades on the 76 or is it all original?
Ah the Ivor Tiefenbrun TD 150.
That's the Contrology power board. Be very careful as it has a live ground plane and its easy to get a nasty shock as it uses a capacitor dropper. I used to work in Contrology who made these boards for Linn. Techs were always getting shocks from them. Later one's were made by Mullard.
Will do thanks for the info! Hoping adding an ground will help! Figure it won't hurt anything!
Interested to see how this goes.... I have a Sondek from around this time. still working. so i don't need to rewire etc. but it is SOOO sensitive to me walking around ( I have a wooden floor) that i suspect it needs balancing for the floating subassembly. Hopefully you will have some useful info on how to set this up!
I mounted mine on a WALL MOUNT 👍
That was exactly what I was just about to say A wall mount would be the best option that's what I had to do when I lived in an old house with wooden floors. Luckily I moved everything down in our basement nice hard concrete floor ain't nothing shaking! 😂 It does we're in trouble!
A lot of "High end" cable places don't solder anymore, just good crimping with some sort of anti corrosion/arcing compounds. Don't know if it's better or not. Thought Linn's came with dedicated power supply. Pretty sure they do.
I don't see how crimping a wire is going to be better than soldering. That's just my opinion! Well my Linn record player didn't have a power supply but that doesn't mean that they didn't have one at one time. So I'm still learning about the Linn record player! Thank you for letting me know I will definitely look into this that would definitely make more sense!
@cheapandeasymods Just thinking back,my experience with LP12 is a bit dated. I've never seen a 110/240 supply motor on a good record player, keeping the frequency at 50/60hz would be impossible. I think this has been modified. Apart from the frequency, the safety issues of mains power directly to a record deck with a metal turntable would never be passed as safe under regulation in the UK. I wouldn't connect it to mains power at all.
Dang, just checked listings on ebay for that turntable and they are asking huge money, many of them for over $4K and one was listed for $13K!
Exactly that's why I want to try to get this thing working to see what it's all about. Going to start fine-tuning it getting it adjusted just right and then we'll give it the ultimate test! Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!