For anyone who has been thinking of investing in a Linn product in the near future, you may be interested to know that Linn has announced a price rise to take effect from 20^th January 2023.

You hardly need us to tell you that 2022 has been a year of rising prices.

Every so often, a new product comes along that redefines expectations and revolutionises standards, forging its own path in the name of innovation and ingenuity.

Think Model-T Ford… Think Smartphone… Think Sondek LP12… And now, think Selekt DSM – the world’s first, fully customisable and future-proof digital source for hi-fi enthusiasts; a high- performance offering unlike anything else on the market.

Alison and I flew out of Heathrow on British Airways at 11.00am and arrived in San Francisco at 2.00pm local time. In actual fact it was 11 hours later! We spent an interesting two days exploring San Francisco and acclimatising before heading north about 50 miles to the Santa Rosa area where my first client lives.

Linn products have just announced three exciting new upgrades for the Sondek LP12 turntable all at once.

There is a connection here though as there is a new tonearm, Arko, plus two new cartridges, Kendo and Koil.

Arko

With Arko, Linn have returned to fundamentals, by removing all bar the mission-critical elements of tonearm design, boiling these down to their essence, and then honing what was left to superlative standards.