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LINN SONDEK CD12 v LINN SONDEK LP12 |
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 Simon
Pope reports on a day of hi-fi heaven for the discerning audiophile, courtesy
of Linn Products and Hi-Fi World.
Saturday June 9th 2001 saw Linn Products and Hi-Fi World joining ranks for the day for a vinyl versus CD demonstration of epic proportions. Those of you unable to attend our joint demonstration of LP and CD with Linn Products last month missed out on a fascinating and informative day. More than 500 readers attended to make the day a runaway success. Linn are perhaps the ideal company for such a demonstration, manufacturing not only probably the world's most advanced and expensive CD player but also the world's benchmark turntable in the shape of the Sondek LP12.
Amplification was Linn's 5103 system controller for preamplification and a pair of Klimax power amps fed into the company's awesome new £25,000 Komri professional monitor loudspeakers.
This was confirmed by the results of the demo, as the public overwhelmingly voted for vinyl - see the figures in the table below.
We'd like to thank everybody that attended the day and came to meet us. We at Hi-Fi World are forever impressed by the quality and amount of knowledge that our readers have - it certainly keeps us on our toes! We hope to arrange a similar 'themed' event some time soon, so keep reading! This feature was published in the September 2001 issue of Hi-Fi World. No material may be reproduced from this feature without the written permission of the publisher. Copyright Audio Publishing Limited. |
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In
the plush surroundings of the Burlington Suite at the Grosvenor House Hotel
in London's Park Lane, Ivor Tiefenbrun MBE, MD and founder of Linn Products,
held the audience with his explanations and demonstrations. The crowds
listened to five tracks played on both LP and CD and marked down their
preference.
Throughout
the day demonstrations were running every twenty minutes from 10am to 4pm
for groups of forty people at a time. The system used for demonstrations
was a £60,000 flagship Linn outfit comprising of a Sondek CD12 and
a top specification Sondek LP12 (with Ekos arm and Arkiv cartridge) as
source players.
As
vinyl's popularity is being upheld by many audiophiles, it's also growing
in popularity amongst those who left their records behind in the dawn of
digital as well as with the younger generation of listeners, brought in
by dance music - played invariably by DJs on vinyl.