Yes, if there’s nothing other than a better-sounding plinth and a good hinge (I’ve never had an issue with the old hinges) and a circular on/off button, I’d certainly agree with you re cost.
I would like to know more about the plinth as a possible future standalone “upgrade”, but happy as is, really.
Nah, the posts arent important enough to ‘flag’…just irritating.
Ah, thanks for confirmation as I wasn’t sure which arm it was as they have a few. Interesting re the Innovation, I’ve found that model on their website but can’t find a reference to the ‘Wood’ variant, or is that just a term referring to the Innovation Panzerholz construction? Either way, a lovely deck if you choose to plunge!
For mere mortals, you can put together an excellent sounding LP12, assembled from good used parts for very sensible money. Possibly 5% to 7.5% of the price of the LP12 50.
Yeah, I think what they call the Innovation now is what used to be called the Innovation Wood. It has the double plinth. It sits just below the Innovation Master (with the quad plinth), and is basically that table but without the lower plinths and magnetic sub-platter. The lower models are the Innovation Basic and Innovation Compact.
I can guarantee you that Minions and MC elements don’t go together too well despite feeding them banana’s.
I think most are missing the point here !!!
This is not about the LP12 50, it is all about bring the Jon Ive’s name to the Linn brand, and it is also not meant for an average turnable user, it is a marketing opportunity to grab the attention from some who have never heard of vinyl/lp/turntable, let alone Linn / Naim, and also an opportunity to get some capital from those that even $60K is just some pocket money.
Oh so a toy for the people that can flash the cash. Why not have a diamond studded outer platter while we are at it, then you could sell it for more than £50000. I always thought Linn were serious to provide products to music lovers that enjoy decent quality music reproduction. Sorry but your post made me 
They are serious about making products for the music lovers, and they are also serious about making money. But I think this one is more like a collector’s item.
I just saw online on Tom’s Guide, that Jon Ive approached Linn about doing this and didn’t charge for the design work. Apparently, Gilad had a message via linked in that he initially thought was spam. But after deleting it, some thought about it, found it and replied. Jon has been a long-time customer of Linn. I wonder how much it would have cost if the design work had to be factored into the sale price.
There is always a market for collectors items.
Why so angry on here?
Strikes me that the design cost is very much factored in despite Linn not being charged.
I’d imagine many who have never heard of Linn will now know of the company by association.
This is the point, and the ones sniping and moaning about “betrayal” and “disrespecting loyal customers” etc are missing it.
Linn isn’t a big company, so the opportunity to add £6 or £7m to its turnover (I’m guessing here, and assuming that all 250 units are sold at £50K, of which Linn gets about half) would be very welcome, providing both useful cash at hand and money to invest in R&D, plant, staff etc).
The company has also gained a great deal of coverage, far beyond the specialist hi-fi media and bringing the Linn brand name to the attention of Ive and Apple fanboys. That can only help sales (and not just of LP12s either).
Whether those new customers are “true audiophiles” or not doesn’t matter. Nor does it matter if a lot of these new fans are rich, vulgar or have more money than sense. All that matters is that the company (a British, family-owned firm, remember) does well, because owners of Linn gear (much of which is retro-upgradeable) will benefit, and the country will benefit from a Great British Success Story and the taxes it pays.
So well done Linn, more power to them I say, and I hope this LP12-50 does well for them.
100% in agreement, but allow me to say that for a 50 year celebration I prefer the Nait rather than the LP12.
For financial reasons I agree 
What amps will make the most of an LP12-50?
It’s pointless if you are going to get cheap about it. Statement NAP S1, or go home.
No, no. Source is everything. Just feed it in to a Nait.
Perhaps an anniversary one?
