Linn pre amps

[Maysie]

I’m am a Yorkshireman the cheaper the better!

Get yourself on eBay and search for 'used Matsui'.

If none available, Amstrad used to make some fine budget pieces.....

[ktmog6uk]

Get yourself on eBay and search for 'used Matsui'.

If none available, Amstrad used to make some fine budget pieces.....

I want summat for nowt, not nowt for nowt!

[earlofsodbury]

Tread very warily buying Linn-anything from the last 20 years or so - at some point they changed from linear PSUs to switchmode. Great for efficiency, but many of them have proven unreliable, and not infrequently die irreparably. The older ones can neither be repaired nor replaced since Linn don't keep stock of spares for the older designs. Even when you can get spares, Linn are notoriously expensive.

You'd do well to do plenty of research on hifi forums like Pink Fish to get a clearer idea of which models it would be wiser to avoid.

[ktmog6uk]

Tread very warily buying Linn-anything from the last 20 years or so - at some point they changed from linear PSUs to switchmode. Great for efficiency, but many of them have proven unreliable, and not infrequently die irreparably. The older ones can neither be repaired nor replaced since Linn don't keep stock of spares for the older designs. Even when you can get spares, Linn are notoriously expensive.

You'd do well to do plenty of research on hifi forums like Pink Fish to get a clearer idea of which models it would be wiser to avoid.

Sound advice, cheers

[Maysie]

I want summat for nowt, not nowt for nowt!

I am from the era when every 17 year old wanted a set of Matsui 'shoe box' speakers fitted to the parcel shelf of their Ford Escort/Fiesta as soon as they passed their driving test (closely followed by a set of crappy spotlights/fog lights fitted to the front somewhere). And every Currys was rammed full with dreadful cheap 'hifi's' with flashing light graphic equalisers.

Its funny how things change though, as I think I was around 20 YO when I first discovered a Rosewood Linn LP12.
Matsui/Amstrad etc never quite seemed the same after that.

[ktmog6uk]

I am from the era when every 17 year old wanted a set of Matsui 'shoe box' speakers fitted to the parcel shelf of their Ford Escort/Fiesta as soon as they passed their driving test (closely followed by a set of crappy spotlights/fog lights fitted to the front somewhere). And every Currys was rammed full with dreadful cheap 'hifi's' with flashing light graphic equalisers.

Its funny how things change though, as I think I was around 20 YO when I first discovered a Rosewood Linn LP12.
Matsui/Amstrad etc never quite seemed the same after that.

Even now my inner teenager really loves watching massive graphic equaliser display, or even the bouncing meters on the old Rank Audio tuner amp my parents had back then

[blackal]

Even now my inner teenager really loves watching massive graphic equaliser display, or even the bouncing meters on the old Rank Audio tuner amp my parents had back then

want flashing lights............... buy a trainset.

[blackal]

I clocked a NAIM pre-amp on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1802995063348056

That had been serviced recently.

[Mj2k]

I am from the era when every 17 year old wanted a set of Matsui 'shoe box' speakers fitted to the parcel shelf of their Ford Escort/Fiesta as soon as they passed their driving test (closely followed by a set of crappy spotlights/fog lights fitted to the front somewhere). And every Currys was rammed full with dreadful cheap 'hifi's' with flashing light graphic equalisers.

Its funny how things change though, as I think I was around 20 YO when I first discovered a Rosewood Linn LP12.
Matsui/Amstrad etc never quite seemed the same after that.

Remember reading Alan made the speakers half the size to fit more in a box / container. Brilliant for selling crap.