In the early days, Linn didn't have a clue about setting the thing up right to maximise any sonic potential it had and it was Naim's Julian Vereker who got the set-up procedure together properly in 1977. He trained Jimmy Hughes and Jimmy trained me, with subsequent discussion with JV later on when ...

I seem to recall that there was a letter published in a subsequent issue of Popular Hi-Fi merely saying that Ivor's response was not convincing. Nothing substantive was published so to all intents and purposes he had the last word and I was a villain.

I am adding my penny’s worth as someone who did not fall under the spell of the Glasgow mafia in the 1980s. The Internet is exposing the extent of what they got away with, through their hold on dealers and the hi-fi press. Many have bit the bullet and realised they were conned in decades gone by, bu...