The Basik requires practically no setting up: there is no coil spring suspension – just three springy feet.Īlthough not as effective as the LP12’s the Basik’s suspension does an effective enough isolation job, albeit at the cost of deep bass purity and accuracy. The on off switch is hidden below the front edge, which gives the deck very clean lines, but which could cause some confusion. Speed change from the mains driven synchronous motor is manual and involves lifting the felt topped outer platter. All the moving bits are attached to a flat sheet of grey vinyl finished wood, which is folded down around the edges for stiffening purposes. The platter is a relatively lightweight, mutually damping two part affair with a plastic inner drive hub and a bearing straight from the Akito. The Basik comes complete with an Akito arm, but without a cartridge, an omission that was put to rights with a Linn K9, the model that most owners end up with, but which adds a not inconsiderable £89 to the price. The Basik – the turntable that Linn was once rash enough to say it would never make as it represented a compromise on the performance of its senior turntable – is quite different to the LP12 in design terms, yet retains sufficient styling features in common to make the parentage clear.
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