LINN SONDEK Lp-12 preliminary review (Long)

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Everyone is entitled to their opinions of course but you are so wrong about the Pro-ject tables it just isnt funny - either that or there was something seriously wrong with the Project 9 table you saw.
--no it worked fine. Project uses cheap bearings...fact. I was at the dealer while he showed me one disassembled. The rpm-6 I heard was noisy, working as normal. Pro-ject looks come first, quality second.

It is makes like Project and Rega that have saved vinyl from extinction. For less than the cost of a semi reasonable CD player you get vinyl playback and better sonics. They are also about as plug and play a device as exists in vinyl playback today.
--Project's best sounds about like a midrange Rega. Rega has superior parts, better reliability, sound and musicality. The rpm-9 is no match for a P-3 in most areas.

My own system (based on a Pro-ject RPM 4 although now very upgraded) has embarrassed a number of very high end tables in its time and has proved impossible to move away from, for me.
--Which high end tables? with what arm, cart and p/s? where was this?

I am sure your LP12 is a wonder - but I'd be very happy to put my table up alongside it and I have no doubt you would be more than a little surprized.

--I have heard the rpm side by side with amany tables since I started looking into vinyl in 1999. Nothing project makes... let me rephrase that in case there is a mis understanding. NOTHING project makes is anywhere within the same solar system as an lp-12. Anyone who thinks so should pound his or her own skull with a claw hammer until that asinine and false assertion goes away. The pro-ject tables are entry-level tables, with a definate limit on upgradeability, detail refinement and quality. Rega, LINN, VPI, Michell, SME, Clearaudio, Basis, Nottingham are all way, way out of Pro-jects league. Comparing a project rpm-4 to an lp-12 is as stupid as drag racing a stock Yugo against a Ferrari Enzo.