Hi,
When one takes a day off from their main job is usually to take care of personal matters, go shopping, or rest and do nothing, but not me!!!
Today I spent the morning giving the finishing touches to my 2nd Linn LP12 turntable which is going to another home after someone convinced me to sell it to him. This one I got about a year ago and did not have a tonearm, I was finally able to source a mint condition Linn Basik Plus tonearm with a Linn Adikt moving magnet cartridge. Looks gorgeous and I’m sad to let it go.
On the other hand I also found a Linn K18 moving magnet cartridge which I had in storage for many years and totally forgot about it!!! It was given to me because it supposedly sounded distorted, but when I checked it today it was just dirty as hell and the stylus had a grime ball!!! Cleaned it very carefully with my secret recipe and installed it on my Technics SL1200 MkII direct drive turntable (another story), and lo and behold it sounds perfect and without any distortion at all, specially in the inner grooves were it will be immediately noticeable!!
Now both my Linn LP12 and the Technics SL1200 MkII sit right beside each other and can use either one depending on my mood and the type of music I decide to play.
Enjoy!
Vic