Lingos

Posted by: blueoyster on 02 April 2003

Having just returned from the England vs Turkey game I decided to play some vinyl, Aja-Steely Dan playing at the moment- I have very good neighbours!

). Just recently I`ve had a Mk2 Lingo on dem to compare with my Mk1 and found that the difference was marginal. Now I know that this subject has been covered numerous times, but being fairly new to this forum (which is a truly a great medium for us hi fi fanatics) I would be really interested to have an opinion from users of Lingo`s as to the benefit of owning a Mk2. I cannot identify a great difference between the two, (I played drums in a Rock/Blues band for a number of years so maybe my hearing is not up to scatch-hello Ronnie how is Van?.

Thank you and good night

Colin

Ps That Glenmorangie single malt really kicked ass!

Posted on: 03 April 2003 by JRHardee

I have not done a comparison, but two Linn dealers have told me that if you have a Lingo I, it would not be worthwhile to replace it with a Lingo II.

Posted on: 03 April 2003 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly

Colin

I have heard an A/B dem of ther original and latest versions of the Lingo.

Suffice to say that it will be my next upgrade.

Regards

Mike

Posted on: 03 April 2003 by woodface

I think I will dem the new unit at some stage as it will be a relatively cheap upgrade. There seems to be those who say it is night and day while others hear not a great difference. I really wish they had kept the half box though or at least offer an internal only upgrade. I think that there is always a great danger that small differences get blown out of all proportion.

Posted on: 04 April 2003 by Dave J

I really hadn't planned to upgrade from a Lingo 1 (early ½ box model) at all but I have to say that just 30 seconds of demming the Mk2 version was sufficient to convince me it was an utter bargain.

Posted on: 04 April 2003 by JRHardee

Has the board been upgraded in the Lingo 2, or just the box?
Thanks

Posted on: 07 April 2003 by Malcolm Davey

Yep, the difference was very clear to me with the 2 being so much better that I bought one