FairPlayMotty wrote: ↑2020-09-24 16:11
lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-09-24 15:54
FairPlayMotty wrote: ↑2020-09-24 15:09
Linn's headquarters are around thirty miles from my home.
According to the British Geographical Survey, the West of Scotland and West Wales have the highest seismic readings in the UK. The lowest readings in the UK are in Northern Ireland and North East Scotland.
Ha ha!
Marketers and their stories...
Yes indeed, ingenious piece of spin!
I seem to have misspoke by using the word "seismic". I do not know anything about measuring ground vibrations or geologic conditions. Linn
did choose their current location (at least partly) because of ground vibrations.
When I am in my basement late at night, I can occasionally feel the concrete floor have periodic low frequency shimmying. It took me many months to figure it out. One day my wife was on the third floor and out a window saw the lights of a freighter going by. We are about a mile from the Detroit River. I shared this finding at a neighborhood party and it turns out everyone else already knew this. One neighbor who lives right off the river says her dining room chandelier rings when large ships go by.
At my old house, I could feel it shake at night when trains went by from miles away.
I'm sure many of you have experienced a car driving by your house playing rap music with a loud sub-woofer. I'm not sure if it's a Detroit thing, but now motorcyclists have these sub-woofers. Since they are open, it rattles the front windows of my house; you can actually see the glass panes moving. Many custom motorcycles now have tuned exhausts which are super-loud.
The current Linn facility doesn't experience these noises and vibrations. The question is, does it result in improved manufacturing?
I remanufactured and installed surface-mount pick-and-place machines for over a decade. Most assembly line installs are done at night so production isn't affected. The most accurate standards are always accomplished at night.
The first LP12 our shop received built at the new Linn factory sounded better than our demo unit of the same specification. I swapped stands and styli. I had set both up exactly the same. I called another dealer whose opinions I respected and he said the same thing. He said the LP12 bearings and platters were still being machined at the old facility. The bottom line is, at least one product sounded better made at the new facility. Why, I never found out.
It saddens me that Fredrik and FairPlayMotty are calloused by snake oil hi-fi such that they distrust unfounded ideas. By the way, I have never heard of Linn using this info as a selling feature. In fact, if I knew a certain location improved performance, I wouldn't share it so my competitors could discover it.
Back to the Linn Nexus LS250; I liked them and sold quite a few pairs. Most U.S. Linn dealers refused to stock them and sold none. Everyone in our shop sold them and liked them. One salesman loved and sold a lot of Linn Helix models. He sold many Linn Axis/Creek4040/Helix systems. He said there was nothing that could beat it. Throw in a Creek 3040 tuner & NAD CD player and that was a lot of hi-fi for under $2K.
We had a pair of EPOS on demo for about six months and didn't sell a single pair. Every time someone came in and asked to hear EPOS (there were a couple positive reviews out at the time), we would compare them to the Nexus and it was an easy sale. The EPOS on stands was a similar price and look to the Nexus. To this day, I don't get the EPOS thing. I could say how terrible they were but then FairPlayMotty probably had a beer at his local pub with Robin Marshall last week and would be upset.
I can't tell you how many times I heard, "You like Kans? You've got to hear the EPOS.". Well folks, I heard them many, many times. Every Royd speaker we sold was better than the EPOS and cost less. Damn, I think I'm trying to bait FPM.
Ivor Tiefenbrun's true talent is surrounding himself with individualist designers who work well in a team environment. No one left Linn and went on to excel elsewhere. Rod Crawford calling his company "Legend" was a mistake.
Ron The Mon