I was looking at Naim amps, until I got to the bit about how they only work with terrifyingly expensive unidirectional Naim speaker cable. At that point my Bullshit Detector went off and I stopped looking at Naim stuff. Linn seem to be very similar.
Some Naim designs omitted the series inductor needed to stop that sort of circuit oscillating. And relied on the inductance of a special cable to do thit job. So they save money on the amp, and expect you to pay silly prices for cable.
Some of their designs had also a far from 'flat' frequency response. No wonder they sounded 'different'.
I once met their designer. A complete nutcase. ;-)
All of which confirms my "shitty stick" conclusion. Thank you!
Obviously. He expects you to buy a house just the right size so that the speaker cables are the same length as in his test lab?
Incidentally, I was introduced to Meddle by my son. I'm too young to have had it when it came out :)
Andy
I'm not. The guy in the room next to me in my second university year used to play it a lot. On the Class A amplifier he built.
I got it too, and never looked back...except to earlier Floyd albums, of course...
I don't recall you being next door...:-) Oh, mine was class B..Garrard 301..
Hah! I heard about them in 1968, and first saw em 1969 I think.
Couldn't afford a 301, but I used to sell 401s when I worked for the (long defunct) Technical Trading. Had an SP25 until I could afford the TD160.
I didn't think that, but I do regret the fact that years ago I loaned my Thorens to a mate and when he asked if I wanted it back, I said "No, we're just moving house and I can't find room for it. You keep it."
I have a Dual nowadays which is good, but the Thorens was better by a long, long way.
IMO better than DSOTM, if only for "One of These Days". I can still recall the animation that accompanied it on OGWT. I ran out of the house the next day to buy it. Currently on my fifth vinyl copy and my second CD.
You've got that right. It even makes wine commentary sound sensible.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
It certainly reminds me of wine commentary, with even the minimal factual content of that removed.
Yeah, very stupid of me in retrospect. OTOH a good friend and he had loaned me a car for several weeks, so probably just in terms of outcome.
My brother-in-law sold me his old 'hi-fi' for a few tenners.
Quad 33-303.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Huge saying something like:
Perhaps Thorens made it for Linn. I visited the Linn factory (as it wasn't far from me) and was surprised at how small it was. Istr other items with the Linn badge that weren't made there.
Well, Ivor started Linn out of Castle Precision Engineering, which IIRC was owned/run by his father. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did work for others, especially in the early days.
I only need info about where to find a connector for him.
The bastard has looked into his drawer and found a replacement.
Many thanks to all who tried to help me with the bastard. I'm quite embarrassed now for asking on his behalf.
Dave
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