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Followers of the Linn Sondek LP12 will know that this classic turntable, now a full 50 years old, has evolved over the decades at a glacial pace, precisely because the design was revered so early on. Once beyond its Ariston origins, the LP12 cemented its status at the front of the “source-first” movement of the 1970s, proferring the then-heretical notion that we should spend more money on our sources and less on our speakers, because ‘garbage in equals garbage out’. Linn and its leader Ivor Tiefenbrun forcefully propounded this hi-fi philosophy, along with Naim's championing of the then equally-unregarded art of amplification, until the rest of
