Some highlights of Linn 360 design:
With Linn 360 the hi-fi is in the speakers – digital to analogue conversion and all amplification is contained in a module decoupled from the rear of the cabinets.
Propriety Space Optimisation Plus software builds a virtual room layout and allows the system to engineer out any ill-effects that room boundaries and construction might impart on the music. The Exakt specification aims to resolve “time of flight” errors or phase distortion – with higher frequencies released slightly later than the lower frequencies to ensure they arrive at the listening point precisely aligned.
Aktiv digital crossovers which precisely present only the relevant bandwidth to each DAC, amplifier and drive unit.
Adaptive Bias Control – a real-time compute operation which measures the input musical signal and optimises bias ahead of amplification. See video of Gilad explaining it here.
Power DAC helps remove the disconnect between Organik DAC and power amplifier stage on each bass driver, giving the deepest and most articulate bass response. See video of Gilad explaining it here.
Organik DAC is Linn’s first entirely home-grown DAC architecture; each 360 cabinet contains five Organik DACs, one for each drive unit.
The widest dispersion and minimal distortion through a bespoke cabinet which curves on every axis.
Aluminium alloy bass drivers for precise, pistonic motion so as to introduce no distortion to the musical signal. With more than double the excursion of those in Klimax 350 the bass performance of 360 is truly seismic.
64mm midrange dome is made of carbon fibre weave, as used in the NASA Mars Rover, for the perfect blend of stiffness, lightness and the structural stability to retain a large dome form.This pushes resonance almost three octaves above its usable range and the very low moving mass and high motor strength allow the unit to start and stop incredibly quickly. With no sonic signature and lightning fast response this new midrange drive unit brings a level of clarity that astonishes.
The first 19mm Beryllium dome seen in the audio market, tooled by Linn this pushes all colouration beyond my measurement system, let alone human hearing. Its small diameter yields a much wider dispersion characteristic than is available from other larger ‘off the shelf’ Beryllium tweeters and is the most open and transparent driver we’ve experienced from Linn.
Exakt variant for use in an all-Linn system (£105,000 including Klimax System Hub), or Passive with Aktiv Bass (PWAB), including Power DAC, (£55,000) for use with your choice of hi-fi separates.
