LinnCast: Factory Tour
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2025
- Join us this for a virtual Linn factory tour on TH-cam.
Our knowledgeable Linn tour guides will show you round, and let you in on some of the secrets of how we make our products.
The tour guides will be available to field your comments and questions between 1600-1700 (UTC+1) 27th August 2020 - so please say hello and drop a question in the comments if you have one.
A long time ago , a few of us wrote to Linn , they invited us to their new factory , i took a couple of my favourite L/P s with me, they had told us that we would be invited to the Cottage that had all their brilliant musical equipment , Unfortunately for us our trip coincided with a group of German Hi Fi journalists who had come over , I was disappointed , but the Linn rep made up for it with a walk around the assembly bays . The people could not have been more friendlier if they tried . Thank you Linn for a magical trip .
This factory tour is exactly why I love Linn!
What a beautiful factory! I do not need any more audio equipment, but after watching this, I WANT to buy some LINN products. Very impressive!
I first heard about Linn back in the early 80's when my interest in audio was forming as a kid. Two experiences really kicked off my love of audio, hearing a classic Quad 22 / 2 /ESL system and the Linn LP12. I've always worked in the electronics / semiconductor business and a distribution company I was with in the 90's were a supplier to Linn. No matter how hard I tried I never managed to bag a jolly (well....business meeting...) to see the company....
To me, Linn represent one of the leading companies in the UK. Nothing but respect for the company and what they have achieved.
One day I hope to come up as a visitor :)
Stay safe and healthy.
Very cool little nod to Silent Running :)
Excellent, nice to see where my LP12 was born.
Thanks for informative and enjoyable video, I am very glad to know the company by almost all details possible said by and communication plus Q&A between reporter and camera man is great. Video quality and movement , focusing on exact places all are best. Hope to see your products here somday somehow.
Thanks Again.
Regards From Iran.
Fascinating video and so well presented too. Would love to hear those Falgship speakers blasting out some music.
Very enjoyable and interesting video. A Company to be proud of being an employee.
33:00 - wow! I've had Linn products more many years and they've never let me down. Amazing engineering - all done in-house.
Outstanding presentation teamwork! Thank you.
Great to see where my Linn hi-fi was born.
Wow. My first and only (so far) visit to the factory was in the early 90s when I worked for a Linn retailer. The place was still pretty much new back then and still had that "factory fresh" polish about it. Now it looks a little more "lived in" with the necessary changes required over the last 30 years. You could say it looks a little more "Organik" now!
Great tour, makes you want to visit Glasgow and experience this fabulous technology in person. Hopefully soon.
Great tour
I own a poweramp, the C5100, built by Sharon! Still running great after all these Years. Thank you Sharon! Many regards, Christian
Amazing LIVE TOUR! Thank you very much for sharing with us friends! regards from Mexico City!
Our pleasure! Thanks for visiting!
Great tour but would have loved to have seen speaker assembly as well.
Nice powder coat finish that. Being a powder coater/wet sprayer myself, this pleases me. I use to powder coat NAIMS front face panels
Nice factory tour. Perhaps you should lock the 5-axis CNC machine inside some kind of noise box. You can hear it throughout the whole work floor tour, and it must be very annoying for workers who do not work with CNC directly to listen to this machine the whole day. Good working environment is important and your employees must also be able to hear the fine sound from the Linn products after work :-)
Nice work by all at Linn. Well done.
Many thanks!
I have a 1973 Linn Sondek LP-12 it came with a DECCA tonearm and cartridge but I changed it to a Grace 727 tonearm in 1975 and a Grace cartridge, it does need some work though but it still works fine just needs some adjustment.
I really appreciated this tour. I did visit about 10 years ago and am amazed at all the changes! I currently own both the 530’s and the 350’s. During the tour I didn’t see any speaker assembly except for the rear electronics of a 350. I’d love to see or understand a bit more of your speaker manufacturing process, perhaps in a future video?
Thanks for your feedback, Jim. Hope you're enjoying your Linn systems!
These guys know what they are talking about, because they are the only ones with white coats and safety goggles.
If you missed the Live Premiere of the factory tour and have a question, please type it here and we'll endeavour to get you an answer ASAP
Great tour congrats
A great video, providing real insight into how Linn works from the start of their production, to the finished products they produce and sell to the public. Just had my LP12 upgraded with the new Karousel bearing and to say it's a fantastic upgrade is an understatement. Many of their upgrades for the LP12 are excellent but very costly, however Karousel has to be one of, if not the best in a long time. Take my advice and just have it installed, you will never regret it, it's fantastic and we'll worth its £750 cost.
Thanks for the kind words, Kevin. Everyone is loving their Karousel upgrades!
Well I really enjoyed that tour, shame I dont own linn but I went down the Naim route, I bet you cant go wrong with either
I did the factory tour last year June. Really special occasion. Guys, you should consider adding subtitles, especially to first part of the video.
I appreciated the factory tour and the fact that Gordon had safety glasses. Why the painter had none?
So where are speakers made?
Nice tour things have changed since my visit in the 80s
Come visit us again once we open visits back up
I may well take you up on that when I am up your neck of the woods
The 'majik' room is the place I'm interested in mostly. I get the feeling that you might bump into the 'men in black' in this room. Playing with 'majik' does have its downside as those boffins/majikians are all to aware of in the long term.
I liked Kate Bush when she hit the scene back in the day and one of the major driving forces steering her was David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, his connection to the EMI recording and engineering labs and their links to The Tavistock Institute always intrigued me. Anyway, Robert Bush, Kate's father, was medical doctor who theorised directional sound waves could be used in therapy of the body and mind. The Ministry Of Defence always had the eyes and ears on the bright boys and girls like Joe Meek and The BBC Radio Phonic Workshop, the BBC 'spell' boys and girls always had the best toys to play with ...G...
Thanks for sharing | Regards from Nuuk City :-)
I worked in the PCB industry for 40 years plus making bare PCBs. Cant remember if we ever made any for Linn. I noticed these were made by Zot.
After SMC assembly it would improve quality Assurance by employing a optical comparator instead of a bloke with a magnifying lens. This will any component defects are captured and boards can potentially be reworked. Nice video though.
Thank you, gentleman!
Nice walk around! Much more noisier inside as I expected.
as an ex Linn LP12 owner this was very interesting , still own an Ekos and Arkiv B
Good presentation
Fascinating. How long does it take to plan the manufacturing process for a new product such as developing the new ultra-thin stencil, setting-up the inneos etc? The blocks of aluminium for Klimax range, does the casting method prevent it being casted into a style required rather than machining it? How do the robots know when they need to deliver more materials?
Hi Darren, great question. When our engineers design a new circuit board, the design also creates the data we require to program the placement machines and to create the ultra-thin stencil, so manufacturing and design are completely integrated. The stencils are produced by a local supplier and normally arrive at the factory within 48 hours of ordering. The placement machines themselves are very flexible and take only a few minutes to switch from one circuit board setup to a different one.
We machine our Klimax metalwork as the billets are of the highest purity and, therefore, provide the best possible finish before anodising.
Our robots are integrated with our stock management system here in the factory, which dispatches them to any of our build stations as required to either deliver or collect. They can also be manually requested by our stores team if the need arises. Hope this answers your question.
Hi Phil, I'm guessing that your LP12 has a Valhalla internal power supply, easily recognised by the black power switch with a single red led? Valhallas do eventually fail, any accredited Linn dealer should be able to repair it for a fraction of quoted £1500 which is ridiculous. I'm presuming that you're UK based? If you're still stuck contact me on here and I'm sure you can once again enjoy your vinyl played on the LP12.
On on new DSM Majik and Select would really like to have the ability to personalise our own EQ setting (Bass, Treble and Midrange). Is this possible be provided for you to do this over your next firmware upgrade (software)? Thanks.
The populating operator didn't looked pleased 15:30 with the component reels being handled with the machine operating.
I want to know if Karl McKay who hand built my Majik-I still works there and say thanks 🙏🏻
I like linn ikemi audiophile cd.
What is the Big blue vice for.
wow, now i understand why they're so expensive
How can I win a five minute shopping spree ?
Are all the speakers made in the factory or outsourced?
Hi Tim. All of our speakers (both passive and Exakt) are built, tested and packed by one person at our factory.
Built as in assembled I presume?
Hi Great territorial on Linn , I’ve purchased my Linn LP 12 back in the early 80s it’s been a beautiful bit of kit but I decided to pack up last year,
Our then made some enquiries and I was told it was going to cost around about £1500 to repair, So it’s now sitting on my stand as a piece of art as I cannot afford to have it repaired as I am a pensioner, So Cannot listen to my vinyl, Phil
I don't know what Linn is smoking, thinking their new DAC is worth $39,000. No way. I have the money, but there is no value at all at that price. I was interested until I saw the price.
Where are all the employees? All I see are unfinished units sitting on work benches.
Great products
Wow amazing. Thank you for the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
Please use a professional microphone next time.
Very interesting thank you very much!
How come we never see where the loudspeakers are made? I'd love to see where my Majik 140's were born.
Really enjoyed this thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, Neil!
LinnKast :)
Could I have some of the aluminium swarf be good to make speakers with mixed in with epoxy resin
Really want the inner platter to be made light as possible aluminium would be better and more dense can be made.
got a job in analogue design
Thank you for most interesting documentary; it nice learn more about how my vinyl turntable is made which I have had for over last 40 years, which has serve me well.
Glad you enjoyed it! Lovely to hear about your Linn turntable, I'm sure it will serve you well for many more years!
LP-12 is the best product you make
How many DACS and power on an aktiv Akudorik system ?
1 each per drive unit per speaker.
Brilliant!
Thanks Simon!
Bet you guys dont feel bad about selling your kidney now for a turntable power supply).
Same the
I hope the Chinese arnt watching. They will copy what you’ve shown
Probably, but it still says Made In China