Once this is done you can carefully feed it back into the arm and use the grub screw you removed when you pulled it out to hold it back in place.
Using some long needle nose pliers you can grab the wires inside the pillar and carefully pull them down to where you have enough length to solder the connector back on. Then you can loosen up that set screw at the base of the headshell and push the plastic plug/pin piece into the arm. Make sure the tags are a tight fit on the pins and attach them. You need to get a long, thin wire (maybe 15cm) and attach a couple of headshell tags to it. This holds in the plastic piece with the pins that the headshell wires attach to. On the arms I have worked on there is a small screw on the bottom of the arm where it meets the headshell. I don't have an LV-X here to look at but I have previously made such a repair to Ittok and Ekos arms and the Basik is likely similar. Rab, unless you feel really comfortable doing this kind of work I would recommend talking to a few dealers about getting it fixed. This is not a simple repair as from memory the wires aren't long enough to get you to the exit of the arm pillar. It sounds like Rab loosened up the wrong grub screw and ripped the internal plastic plug with pins off the internal arm wires. They seemed to forget that not everybody is a natural engineer with a feel for things mechanical. Something which Linn themselves have to take some responsibility for. another big cause of all those LP12s sounding bloated, splashy and/or stodgy to varying degrees was the trend in the 80s for over tightening everything to the point of destruction. ĭoes it still play music in a way that allows it to reach my soul ? YES. sourced from my old mates at Greaves of Sheffield, before manufacture moved to Denmark. and currently a NOS K18II that's sounding far better than it has any right to. My own deck is now what you might call a "Heritage" LP12Ĭirkus/Lingo II/ Ekos II. A Spacedeck was never so much 'fun,' but it don't 'arf' *sound* good though - and none of the pain/pleasure selecting springs and grommets and so on Good that I hadn't forgotten it all and I'm currently like a kid in a toy shop again - rolleyes. I'm having huge fun rediscovering it all again though with an expert knowledgable hand updating me where necessary (new arms, cables, motors and so on). I'm not yet a regular enough participant in current LP12 set-up to comment with any authority at all. A Spacedeck was never so much 'fun,' but it don't 'arf' *sound* good though - and none of the pain/pleasure selecting springs and grommets and so on Edited Decemby DSJR
LINN EKOS HISTORY UPDATE
I wonder of this kind of update just might be a better one for an old LP12 owner to consider (after say, a Cirkus)? So many permutations now and I'm not yet a regular enough participant in current LP12 set-up to comment with any authority at all. I've yet to do this, but I've spent a little time crawling (!) over the Tiger Paw updates, which seem to make an old LP12 plinth little more than a picture frame - the top plate and under-strap takes the strain it appears. On a new deck, I have to say an Ekos SE/Kandid/Radikal (into a silly money Naim phono stage) did sound superb and way removed from old memories, but I digress. Not many had access to master recordings though and while it was playable, a freshly cut acetate which the troika coped with quite well (after two or three plays the high frequencies are softened a la vinyl, but the first playing was an ear opener to me). We did try hard to ensure that setting up errors or laziness wasn't the case and I apologise for banging on about it. On the other hand, many issues were due to unskilled or careless set up.and degrees thereof. A lot of decks certainly took more fiddling about with than they should have if you knew what you were doing. The Karma & Troika could be quite frustrating in that respect.and there were occasions pre Cirkus when one would wonder whether things were quite what they ought to be. The deck seemed easier to set up for one thing and the bass quality, especially in terms of significantly reduced overhang and better tighter 'tunefulness,' was something of an ear opener to me.Ĭan't argue with any of that.
LINN EKOS HISTORY FULL
Why I say the above, is the utter transformation (to me) that came about with the full Cirkus bearing-sub chassis kit, coupled with the revised plinths in the early 90's or so. We had a kind of joke that Karma's and Troika's started off fine and went off the boil as they bedded in, but I suspect that 'we' at this time were a mostly silent minority (Linn knew, but stayed silent at the time).
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