Linn Sondek LP12 vs Budget Deck vs Superdeck-a shootout FLAC with metadata

Here are eight tracks recorded using three different turntables, designated A, B and C.

On seven of them the Linn Sondek (which is either deck A or deck B-you have to figure out) is compared against a well built but budget deck scored on eBay for $25. This budget deck was modified however for less than $20 in additional parts.

One one of the tracks (St. James Infirmary by Louis Armstrong-which is probably the finest sounding recording of this compilation) I threw in on additional deck, so there is now an A, B and C version to compare and contrast.

So here you have it...three turntables varing from $25 to $30,000.

Without revealing at this point, which table was which I will give details..

The budget deck was equipped with a $2500 Lyra Helikon SL cartridge mounted into its own S-shaped tonearm, and plugged into a $15,000 custom built tube phono stage.

The Linn Sondek was fully Naimed-so it had their Armageddon power supply, the Aro tonearm, the Prefix-K built in phono stage, powered by a dedicated Supercap power supply. The output from the Naim 552 preamp was inputted into the same Yamaha CD-recorder. The LP12 was also fitted with the very same Lyra Helikon SL cartridge as the budget deck.

The Superdeck probably retails for in excess of $30,000 including a unipivot tonearm and exotic MC cartridge. It went into the same tube phono stage as the budget deck.

I have embedded metadata in these FLAC tracks and removed the Bitcomet padding files, which was a problem with the earlier seed of this torrent.