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From: shauns@vice.UUCP (Shaun Simpkins)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Linn/Naim seminar(results)
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 12:09:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 12:09:20 1985
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> 
> 	On Oct. 28 I attended a Linn/Naim seminar held at a local dealer
> here in Edmonton, and conducted by a Canadian representative of Linn/Naim.
> I would like to repeat some of the points that were brought up, and perhaps
> solicit an opinion from some of you net.audio subscribers.
> 
> 
> 	Basically what was said can be summed up by the following statement:
> Vinyl records (as opposed to tape/cd) provide the best possible reproduction
> of music.  It then follows that the backbone of a good system lies in the
> record player.
> 
> 
> 	Elaborating, any audio system should obey the following hierarchy:
> 
> a) Turntable - the basic chassis/motor/platter assembly
> b) Arm       - next in importance
> c) Cartridge - in the record playing system this is the least important
> d) Amplifier - preamp/amp combination of course
> e) Speakers  - least important overall
> 


Don't believe anything you hear from Linn/Sondek.  Actually, don't believe
anything they say you can hear.  I believe that these folks were responsible
for the claim that digital discs were so bad that you couldn't even hear the
rythmn, much less music.  Linn has been doing poorer over the past few years.
The dealers in my area that used to stock Linn have switched to other, less
expensive, equal quality and more reliable (!) turntable brands.  Apparently
good old Ivor can't handle the digital age.  Quite frankly, I'd spend more
money on the cartridge than the table and definitely not over $600 for the
pair, and a TON of money on the speakers, if they were worth it.

If I sound to be rabidly anti-Linn, I am.  I think they make a good product
but their approach is distinctly audiophobe and opprtunistic.  What you just
attended bears all the earmarks of a religious cult's sales pitch, what with
all the normal words with special meanings and the "well-meaning" expert's
guiding words as to what you should be listening for.

I'd think that seminars like this were funny, but the sad thing is that many
people are taken in by this unadulterated horsepuckey.


The wandering squash,
-- 
				Shaun Simpkins

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