Hello. I have finally finished a total revamp of my system which now includes Tannoy Arden speakers, Radford STA amp, Audiolab 8000C pre, Linn Selekt renderer, Stax SR L700 headphones. To my ancient ears it sounds wonderful but the cherry on the cake was to be the return of my ill LP12. I have purchased most of my new equipment from a single dealer who is Linn approved. Several months ago the LP12 just stopped working. I took it to the dealer who said the power supply board was fried and the motor was dead. I paid £623 to get the LP12 repaired and serviced which the dealer said he did personally. Yesterday the dealer came over to return mended LP12 and do the room optimisation for the Linn Selekt. When he came to set up the LP12 I had to point out that the turntable needed levelling and had to find a spirit level – it needed considerable adjustment. Next problem was that the turntable took an age to get to speed and the dealer said that he had forgotten to actually replace the motor so would have to come back. We got the turntable up to speed and although Moondance sounded good, there was no real volume even with the pre turned fully up. I had no problems with my previous Naim NAC62/NAP90 setup but dealer said this was due to a different phono setup on the Naim (?). The LP12 currently has an Akito arm with a Corus Blue cartridge and the dealer has said that a Goldring 1042 would work well. Because my brain is a moving magnet with one magnet missing, I did not really take any of this up with the dealer yesterday but I am now feeling really unsettled and stuck. What I would like advice on is whether I should just accept the suggestion and buy a new cartridge or whether there are other avenues to explore. I am not very technically minded so am in the hands of people who are. I am not sure I have much confidence left with my dealer but as I said before, I feel stuck. Many thanks