Linn DS Events

[chebby]

the record spot:... didn't the original LP12 retail for something like £200 when it first came out? Not such a big deal now, but in 1973, that would be well out of many pockets!

Linn's Sondek was introduced in 1972. It's price in 1973 was £86 (an Ariston RD11S was £94 in 1972).

£86 was about two weeks average wages back then (£40.90 per week in 1973). Of course the customer still had to buy a Grace or Hadcock or SME arm and a cartridge but still within the bounds of 'affordable'.

 

[mikeinbrum]

It's all very well calling yourself, and pricing your products like, a 'high-end manufacturer' but you'd expect that product to offer something that mainstream manufacturers cannot. But in the case of Linn DS and Naim HDX (just the examples i've looked at recently....I'm sure there are more), it seems to me that these products fail to do this. Even if you're a high-end producer you should not be exempt from offering value for money.

 

[Anonymous]

Very true. Certainly I would, from the last twenty years experience, be happy to replace my 206B with the current version, which would be the cheapest in their present range, according to Meridian. (I would hopefully attend a demo first!)

However, I would prefer to pay less than is being asked for that model. Is this not human nature? I do keep coming back to the massively ordinary CD12 demo I attended.

Also, I must accept that there are many, many enthusiasts, who may have hearing, that can discern a definite audible difference between "good" gear, and phenomenally expensive gear, and also have the dosh, God bless 'em !

 

[Anonymous]

Thought they were quite reasonable! (Think I got your irony, JD. Are you still performing with the Blue Grass Boys?)