Linn based in Waterfoot Glasgow manufactures the famous Sondek LP12 turntable and has been producing this iconic record player in many different performance levels for over five decades

Founded by Ivor Tiefenbrun in 1973, Linn was born from one man’s belief that he could vastly improve the sound quality of his music system at home, using precision engineering and determined experimentation.

Linn’s first-ever product, the modular and upgradeable Sondek LP12, revolutionised the hi-fi industry by demonstrating the huge musical difference a superbly engineered turntable could make to any hi-fi system. Its demonstrable ability to extract more music from the grooves of a record than the standard of the day led to the step-change in a doctrine that the source component in a system, and not the loudspeakers, mattered most.

Over the last five decades, over fifty retrofittable mechanical and electrical upgrades to its original design have ensured that Sondek LP12 remains the performance benchmark in vinyl playback through to the present day.