
Linn Akurate system review
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Linn's new Akurate system with digital streaming promises superb sound and a slick user interface
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Linn's new Akurate system with digital streaming promises superb sound and a slick user interface

This exclusive review looks at Linn's new 'universal' phono stage and discovers a must-have tool for LP lovers

A DS player and amplifier in a single case is a one-box wonder

The Linn Sondek LP12 was once the be all and end all of not only turntables, but serious hi-fi as a whole. In the late seventies and early eighties your masculinity was certainly in doubt if you didn’t own an LP12. That’s assuming that you believed the hype in magazines and from Linn dealers.

Linn has never been a company to follow the herd. The slightly austere-looking preamp you see before you is a rare example of acomponent that aims to satisfy both serious audiophiles and cinephiles

The Linn Exotik+DA was an excellent preamplifier and processor. And yet we were surprised to learn from Linn that it has already been replaced with a component called the Akurate Kontrol. The Kontrol forms part of a new range from Linn

Who knows the secret of Linn's new high performance three-box stereo music system?
Linn's successful Classik Music one-box CD-and-amp proved that convenience, style and performance can actually make good bedfellows. The company has now applied this ménage a trois of design ideals to home theatre...