Only commenting on the blurb it’s like modern homes with osb walls all rubbish re claimed.
It’s the lamination and gluing that makes the stability at a cost other than grain density.
Pay your money and make the choice.
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Best reason I’ve seen to buy a Stilletto yet. 
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How about Ebony Brazilian or Macassar wood for audio properties in a turntable plinth?
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Harder the wood the better but all are subject to grain irregularities composite is all the same.
Whether we can hear it or not sod knows I can’t tell the difference.
Never heard a Stilletto though. 
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It’s great that Linn are doing this, but it doesn’t look nice at all. The 'orthogonal layers of beech placed under extreme pressure to create an entirely new, solid and massive material’ sounds fancy and is all very well, but at the end of the day, Linn have found a consistent and accurate way to produce a new plinth that uses wood to subdue vibrations. It will be the glue in between the layers that’s doing a fair amount of the job. Once the material is formed, it’s easy for the manufacturer to machine, instead of relying on individuals to hand make them. How it stays true over time, we’ll see. The interesting bit is the extra material they leave in there to give rigidity/weight to the corners and mounting points. This could be achieved on a standard plinth by glueing parts in. Like the Chris Harban plinths that use ebony blocks (the hardest wood by far). Glued blocks become 100% part of the structure, just like the new glued bedrock.
P.S. my Claro Walnut Harban plinth was made in 2011 and hasn’t moved at all. Not even 0.2mm on a granite surface plate.
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An original LP12 prototype?
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Yes, but that’s alloy.
In discussions of the LP12-50, the consensus was that Bedrok is essentially equivalent to Panzerholz. This material is used by several audio companies, including Clearaudio, Rogers, and Taiko.
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That reminds me that I have a Panzerholz body for a “nuded” Denon DL-103. I’ve never used it. I was going to try it on my ESCO 103, but haven’t been brave enough yet to cut off the body…
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Apparently the new top plate is aluminium. The plinth material takes 8 hours of machine time per unit according to Gilad. Gaz
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Sounds to me it’s something similar to the Panzerholz wood that Clearaudio has used for some time now in their tables from Ovation on up, including the Innovation I have. The compressed wood is so dense it sinks in water. And when I say my turntable is bullet-proof I mean that literally.
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It does look like aluminium. It’s a pity no one there could take photos properly 
Yes but it’s half the price and machined the same.
If you want a glue and plywood machined plinth it’s your money .
Best advice now is go to that grand LP12 guru and compare. 
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It will be beech ply compressed to half its thickness with a synthetic resin.
Here you go;
“Under certain conditions, our beech-based special materials can react to climatic influences such changes in humidity and temperature with changes in shape (swelling up, shrinking and distortion). Specifically, it is not to be expected that our materials are free of distortion and we therefore cannot guarantee this. We must therefore expressly exclude any complaint on the basis of distortion”.
Stability of the material is critical, otherwise its shape varies with temperature and humidity. Plywood is not “exactly like solid wood” in this respect. It is used precisely because it has much better dimensional stability.
See above.
And see my post with granit surface plate.
And…
“Freedom from distortion is not an assured feature. For more demanding freedom of distortion requirements, thicker sheets can be made from partial thicknesses to minimise possible warping”.
Panzerholz data sheet.
@fozzybear
Thanks.
I wonder if a square one for existing plinths will be available.
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