What do you get if you put former Apple design guru Jony Ive and Scots audio obsessives Linn together? Possibly the greatest, most luxurious turntable ever made. Ive, who designed the iPod among many other iconic products, has turned his team's talents to the equally iconic Linn Sondek LP12 for its 50th anniversary. The result is gorgeous, and while the price tag is a hefty $60,000 the run of 250 turntables is likely to sell out in a heartbeat.
The Sondek LP12 is pretty special already. First designed in the 1970s to bring you closer to the music than ever before, it used an innovative modular design – and that means that every time tech made it possible to make the turntable better, Linn made it better. Today's Sondek may look pretty much identical to the original, but it's been transformed again and again over fifty years.
