Was fine a few days ago, but last night I tried a new LP which I thought was damaged as I was getting horrible noises and wildly beating mid bass drivers.
No visible fault on the LP.
I then noticed the LED was frequently flickering red which it rarely does (Krystal MC).
Struggled to access connections and initially thought the LP12 earth connector had worked loose. Unplugged connections after turning it off and replaced them.
It then played fine for a couple of hours and I thought I’d found the cause.
Later I could hear horrible noises when I was upstairs and it had started playing up again with nothing playing.
It was serviced a few years ago by Class A. Suspect a capacitor has gone bad, though I think it may be affecting both channels so could it be the power supply?
Pretty frustrating as I’m not really in a position to replace it at the moment and have no idea of what to audition either.
Hooked up an old Project MC/MM phono stage I had for a second turntable and that sounded dire. Hope the problem has not affected the pre input in some way.
Do you have a non vinyl source to test? Almost sounds like the power amp is failing. Which if were true, you’d want to stop right away before it suddenly destroys a pair of speakers.
Good thought but a streaming source was fine and the warning was the Linto’s LED going red indicating clipping when it should be green. I’ve rarely seen it do that. I’ll double check in coming days.
Sorry to say I felt a bit disillusioned as so much of my kit is 20-30 years old now, much of it serviced, but you sometimes wonder about just ditching it all and starting again! My body could do with a good service these days too.
Caught a rodent in the house again a few weeks ago and there were some droppings behind the racks - must check a mouse hasn’t been gnawing cables/interconnects too in better light.
I wouldn’t pack it in unless you aren’t getting joy from it. Like old cars, or even houses, different things tend to fail at different times so it feels like after the first 20 years of bliss that it’s just one thing after another. Which is true. But you press on because it’s worth it. Until it isn’t.
Unless you have a burning desire to upgrade, I’d send it off for repair (Linn won’t do it though) and get a second hand StageLine S just to act as the stand in now and for future trips the Lingo makes to the health spa.
It helps to have a standin for everything in a system, no matter how low cost. Makes the bumps on the road easier to brush off.
I’d agree about having items which can be used temporarily when repairs are needed.
Wondering about using either the MC stage of an old Linn Intel pre/power for MC duties or the old NAC 72 if phono out still works (it needs servicing but preferred it to the NAC 282).
Well I did initially wonder if a mouse might have disconnected the earth wire from LP12 to Linto, but pretty convinced that the Linto despite a service has gone bad. Got it when originally released so must be 25 years old.
This is odd. I re-did the power connections last night and it didn’t distort. Fingers crossed the IEC plug wasn’t engaged properly in the socket (sometimes tricky to do connections without contorting as you get older!).
