To give one example of hundreds: The Trio KP-8080 Cost 100,000 yen in 1979 (about 470 yen to the £ at that time - making it an approx £212 for this turntable plus arm) SNR of 83dbs Din B Wow and flutter of .022% https://audio-database.com/TRIO-KENWOOD/player/kp-8080.html The Linn LP12 had a wow and ...

Surely this went on for many decades- I remember late 80s early 90s reading about how wonderful the linn Lp12 was - I never knew about DD nor Idler either- run both atm. I liked their tonearms n a couple of speakers but hated their cartridges- I was a Thorens fan Yes it did go on for decades becaus...

It's the "Well whatever you think about Linn, they were at least a force for some good in the world of audio, back in the day" rhetoric from that post in pfm that gets my goat.

I knew that idlers and direct drive existed. However, I was convinced that idler's suffered from transmitted motor noise and noise and wow and flutter from imperfections in the idler wheel. And that direct drives suffered from cogging, producing wow and flutter and transmitted motor noise. And as a ...

A recent post on pfm got me thinking. The first paragraph of the post said: " There seems to be a trend at the moment for attacking the major contribution that Linn and to some extent Naim made to audio in that period. Graphs and arm-chair engineering jargon were a major part of the magazine re...

Sunday's 50 over World Cup Final was a psychological experiment.

What happens when you present circa 120,000 people with a sporting spectacle that goes against the team they are supporting.

David Cameron to become the next leader of the Conservative party?

90 Day Fiance. My wife and daughter enjoy it. At times the editing is annoying - in that typical American "reality" TV series kind of way. We're going to show you what we're going to show you, then we're going to show it, then we're going to show you what we've shown you. And large parts o...

TheMarlin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:55 am

Pink Floyd should be in the background, asking for their royalties...

Yesterday's Barnsley-Penistone Wam hi-fi show included 2 examples of happy hi-fi stories. 1 Three years ago on ebay.fr a recording studio were looking to dispose of a pair of their old monitors. They listed them 250 euros. They sat in the 'bay for weeks with no one biting. Until desperate to get rid...