Audio Esoterica

LINN THE ORIGIN STORY

“the spindle is rotatably mounted in the sleeve, and a plate in said sleeve, the spindle being formed with a bearing portion which has point contact with said plate to support said spindle…”

It’s hard to believe today, but in the early days of hi-fi, there was little recognition of the ‘garbage in, garbage out’ philosophy. The signal was the signal, amplifiers just made it bigger, and it was your loudspeakers that made all the difference between good sound and bad sound. No matter that the art of LP reproduction had remained substantially unchanged since 1948 when Peter Goldmark, head of research at CBS-Columbia inmatter that the record player was clearly a far more complicated piece of technology than a big box of wood with some cones in it. No, the loudspeakers remained the unchallenged kings of high fidelity.

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