

Peter has also had a great influence in the Tiger Paw Scale counterweights and Elevator, the lift/lower device for the Naim Aro tonearm. These include Linn’s Aro Keel, Ekos Se, Urika, the Solid Baseboard for the LP12, Naim’s Airplug loading plugs for the Superline to name but a few. Peter has also travelled to many countries across several continents in order to satisfy an ever increasing demand from customers for the best possible set up and sound from their turntables.Īdditionally, Peter has worked in collaboration with several Hi-Fi manufacturers over the years, on a number of projects, offering many suggestions and ideas as well as testing and providing feedback on some of the well-regarded products that you may be familiar with.

The Linn Sondek LP12 Set Up Guide is primarily written for those users who, because of their location, do not have access to a local dealer. Today, this reputation for supplying and setting up the LP12 extends far and wide, and in addition to his regular contributions on the various Hi-Fi forums, he has written the Linn Sondek LP12 Set Up Guide, an instructional guide, which became a “sticky” thread on the Linn Forum. With this knowledge, now developed and refined over 40 years or so, Peter has established an enviable reputation for setting up turntables and the Linn Sondek LP12 in particular.

Many of the skills learned in these early days were and are transferable and consequently, when a Linn account was acquired in the early 1980’s, Peter was able to apply what he’d learned from servicing and repairing other decks to some very useful Linn factory training. It was back in 1977 while working at a retailer called Listen Inn, that Peter Swain, the owner and founder of Cymbiosis, first found himself working on and setting up turntables such as Dual, Garrard, JBE, Logic, Systemdek, Thorens, Rega and others.
