The choice:
360s are available in two variants, as you would expect from Linn: Aktiv Exakt Integrated for partnering a Linn Klimax DSM System Hub or Passive with Aktiv Bass for partnering with source and amplification of your choice. The passive 360 can also be easily converted to perform in an all-external Linn Exakt system featuring Klimax Exaktbox and separate amplification.
The tech:
New 360 Array
An all-new driver array comprising tweeter, midrange and upper bass drive units immediately stands out visually.
The tweeter is the first 19mm Beryllium dome seen in the audio industry. Tooled by Linn, this drive unit now has all of its inherent distortion and resonance pushed far above the range of human hearing. The tweeter produces a startlingly clean and transparent sound; providing a wide open window to the higher frequencies.
The midrange dome is crafted from thin-ply, woven carbon fibre, a cutting-edge composite. This material provides the perfect mix of stiffness and lightness. Similar to the tweeter, any inherent resonance and distortion created by the midrange drive unit is pushed almost three octaves above it’s usable range.
Both upper and lower bass drive units employ an aluminium-magnesium alloy, also selected for its stiffness, thus ensuring precise piston-like behaviour without deviation.
New Adaptive Bias Control eliminates distortion from the amplifiers using real-time, dynamic management and correction; ensuring that they behave at their absolute optimum in all scenarios – for all types of music, at all kinds of listening levels.
Bass Drive Units
Aluminium-magnesium alloy bass drive units produce precise piston-like behaviour and can be driven hard whilst remaining firmly under control. The hard alloy materials add zero colouration or sonic signature to music. The Passive with Aktiv Bass 360 variant features an entirely new design of ultra-low-resonance passive crossover. There is no circuit board; rather the components are mounted using vibration-absorbing adhesive on a dense structure, with integral dampening and very low resonance. Current moves optimally through the crossover and the overall number of connections is minimised – dramatically reducing loss, distortion and interference.
Power DAC Bass System
Built from the ground up, Power DAC technology combines DAC and amp into a single step, thus extending the digital path and reducing loss to produce seismic, realistic and distortion-free bass, delivering lower frequency sound with more impact, efficiency and dramatically less distortion. Power DAC is highly efficient, ultra-low-noise and provides the perfect platform for driving the lower bass system in 360.
Dispersion
360 possesses extraordinary dispersion characteristics, resulting in precisely the same tonality from the speaker in every direction – reinforcing sound-stage. The curvaceous front of each speaker tapers from bottom to top, with shaped radii specifically matched to each individual drive unit. The speakers’ constituent drive units are placed perfectly flush within this smooth baffle, so that they emanate sound, out and away from the speaker, entirely without obstruction.
Critical to 360’s sonic character is the wholesale elimination of audible distortion brought about by the cutting-edge material science which drove development of the drive units and their subsequent integration with Linn’s latest amplifier technologies in both the Bass System and new 360 Array.
When these acoustic and electronic innovations are deployed alongside Linn’s unique and established loudspeaker technologies – Exakt and Space Optimisation – 360 becomes audibly invisible.
