The Bolt Mod
Posted by: trickytree on 15 November 2003
Have just fimished playing a few records after completing the bolt mod. If ever there was a mod/upgrade to the LP12 that could be recomended to everyone with the certainty that no-one will be disapointed, then this is it.
Surface noise is greatly reduced, and with that comes a wealth of low level information that was hidden without the 'bolt'. Dynamic range is increased with the benifit (to me) of being able to reduce the volume level. Notes stop and start faster, with obvious gains in PRaT.
All this is done with no perceived change in tonal balance. As I said at the begining, in my opinion there are no downsides to this mod. If you have a LP12, then just do it.
Paul.
Surface noise is greatly reduced, and with that comes a wealth of low level information that was hidden without the 'bolt'. Dynamic range is increased with the benifit (to me) of being able to reduce the volume level. Notes stop and start faster, with obvious gains in PRaT.
All this is done with no perceived change in tonal balance. As I said at the begining, in my opinion there are no downsides to this mod. If you have a LP12, then just do it.
Paul.
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Originally posted by Andrew L. Weekes:
No Linn PSU does this.
There is categorically no hunting involved with any Linn PSU, since they are not servo or PLL based as were the direct-drive TT's you are thinking of.
Andy
As a matter of fact (and strange as it may seem) I found I just couldn't tap my foot to a system with a Lingo'ed Linn. I tried three different Linns on three completely different systems over several hours with a wide range of music in three different locations. One Naim + Kans, one Naim + Tukans and one all Linn. The Lingo completely lost the rhythm for me. Hence my joke about "hunting". There's nothing worse than a lead foot! Thankfully the Valhalla is fine in that department. (Cue alternative opinions?)
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
quote:
(Cue alternative opinions?)
Oh, alright then
My Lingo sounds great and was hugely better than the Valhalla it replaced, once I'd chopped out the nasty bit, that affected the Naim bits, rythmically
The Exorcist
Andy.
Originally posted by Patrick Dixon:
"There's something wrong with your foot?"
Which one? I only had three for testing Lingos and I've used them all up.
Fortunately I made a full & speedy recovery the moment I heard my Valhalla'd Linn again. So there's nowt wrong with my (UK) size 10s thankyou.
It's true the Lingo darkens the background and bungs more information into the picture. Quite obviously so. It just doesn't have a clue about rhythm IMHO. If I had bought any of those three purely on reputation. I feel I would have had to take it back to the dealers. I should add that my Linn is an earlier model and the others were more modern.
In fact I may not even have corner braces on mine to do the "Bit of studding, some Araldite, a T-nut, and some plain hex nuts Mod."
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
"There's something wrong with your foot?"
Which one? I only had three for testing Lingos and I've used them all up.
Fortunately I made a full & speedy recovery the moment I heard my Valhalla'd Linn again. So there's nowt wrong with my (UK) size 10s thankyou.
It's true the Lingo darkens the background and bungs more information into the picture. Quite obviously so. It just doesn't have a clue about rhythm IMHO. If I had bought any of those three purely on reputation. I feel I would have had to take it back to the dealers. I should add that my Linn is an earlier model and the others were more modern.
In fact I may not even have corner braces on mine to do the "Bit of studding, some Araldite, a T-nut, and some plain hex nuts Mod."
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.