Category: New Products

This year it is the fiftieth anniversary of the Linn LP12 – a product that revolutionised the way that hi-fi was demonstrated and sold by challenging the conventional wisdom that loudspeakers were the most important part of the hi-fi chain, and encouraging customers to trust their ears when making buying decisions.

The LP12 is still in production today, it’s modular design allowing even a fifty year old turntable to be upgraded, piece by piece, to the latest specification.

To celebrate this landmark anniversary Linn has teamed up with LoveFrom – a design agency run by Sir Jony Ives, formerly lead designer of many iconic Apple products.

The LP12-50 features the new Bedrok™ plinth, formed from layers of beech compressed under extreme pressure to create a solid and heavy plinth with minimal resonances to isolate the turntable mechanics.

LP12-50 also has Sir Jony’s trademark rounded corners, a new machined control button, and – refining the one part of the LP12 that really needed refining – new lid hinges, crafted in Scotland.

There will be just 250 of these turntables produced, at £50,000 each. To register your interest please visit https://www.linn.co.uk/uk/turntables/lp12-50

To celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, Naim has introduced a limited edition version of their first integrated amplifier – the NAIT1.

The NAIT 50 is a modern day re-incarnation of Naim’s first integrated amplifier, the NAIT 1 from 1983. Today’s version has replaced the Tuner input with a Streamer input, and new version includes a high quality 1.5 watt headphone amplifier instead of the balance control on the original. The main amplifier is 25 watts per channel, with a peak output of 225 watts allowing it to comfortably drive most loudspeakers. A quality moving magnet phono stage with discrete circuitry is also built in.

The NAIT 50 is a limited edition product – just 1,973 will be produced with a retail price of £2699. We are expecting delivery at the end of July but if you’d like to reserve one now please get in touch.

We are delighted to have the first products from Naim’s New Classic 200 Series on demonstration by appointment in our Ascot showroom.

The NSC222 streaming pre-amplifier can handle digital signals with a bitrate of up to 32bit/284kHz, and has access to all the major streaming services such as Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal. It also has the facility to listen to radio stations from around the world via the internet.

A high quality Moving Magnet phono stage is built in, so you can connect your turntable and give your records a new lease of life. If you want to keep your music to yourself, a headphone output using technology derived from the award winning Atom Headphone Edition is included.

It can be partnered with the latest version of the iconic NAP250 power amplifier, delivering 100 watts of Class A/B power per channel to really get the best out of your loudspeakers.

Also newly available is the NPX300 power supply, which will enhance the performance of the NSC222 and many other Naim products past and present by virtue of the 6 Discrete Regulator (DR) technology.

Our favourite loudspeaker manufacturer, Kudos Audio, has today announced a eco-friendly finish for its Titan Loudspeaker range.
Liquid Amber veneer is responsibly harvested from the fast-growing Liquidambar styraciflua tree, native to the south-east USA, before being finished with a soft sheen and hard-wearing lacquer to ensure that the loudspeakers look great for many years to come.

Following on from the award winning Dione soundbar earlier this year, Devialet has today launched the Mania rechargeable speaker.
With up to 10 hours of playback on a single charge, the Mania features a unique adaptive cross-stereo system that ensures you hear stereo sound wherever the unit is positioned. Like Devialet’s Phantom, the Mania utilises Devialet’s push-push woofer configuration to deliver impressively powerful bass, and it is the first Alexa-compatible Devialet product.
Mania is available for you to try today by appointment at Hidden Systems.

Linn has replaced the Akurate LP12 with the new Selekt LP12. This deck features the new Arko 7075-grade aluminium gimballed tonearm and the Kendo moving coil (MC) cartridge, along with:

• Karousel single point bearing
• Kore aluminium sub-chassis bonded to a machined-from-solid armboard
• Trampolin suspended aluminium base board
• Lingo 4 power supply

The Arko and Kendo are both separately retro-fittable to any LP12, allowing you to take advantage of the recent developments in materials technology and engineering expertise no matter how old your LP12 is.

Call us to arrange your demonstration today.

The wait is finally over! The sublime performance of Organik DAC – first debuted last year in next-generation Klimax DSM – is now available as a retrofit upgrade across the established Klimax range. 

 

Organik forms the beating heart of new Klimax DSM – the ultimate streamer – and is largely responsible for its rave reviews, magazine front covers across the globe, and five Product of the Year awards (so far). 

We are pleased to announce that, from today, the Organik upgrade is available for all variants of Klimax DS and DSM – even those from as far back as 2007. 

Linn have set the new Organik upgrade to a flat rate of £5400.00, which covers all Klimax DS, DSM and Exaktbox products they have ever produced*

The benefits are two-fold. Through choosing to upgrade your Klimax DS or DSM with Organik, you will be bringing your cherished streamer up to the current, next-gen Linn standard; meaning you’ll be unlocking DSD256 and 24-bit/384kHz streaming capability! 

This is the latest addition to the list of products which can benefit from Linn’s groundbreaking, entirely homegrown DAC technology; joining Klimax Exaktbox and Klimax 350 integrated loudspeakers in the lineup. 

You’ll already be aware that, at Linn, nothing progresses beyond the prototype stage if it can’t conclusively answer one simple question positively: is this better than what’s available elsewhere? Designing and building their own DAC, from first principles, was no exception. It was only worth doing if the result would be significantly better than Linn’s previous designs utilising 3rd-party chips. 

With this novel DAC architecture, implementation, and realisation, they have finally completed the puzzle; Linn has achieved complete control over the entire signal chain – an ambition fifty years in the making. 

How does it sound? That’s not for us to say. Rest assured though, Linn doesn’t do anything unless they can do it better than what’s available elsewhere… 

Book your 1:1 appointment with us to hear the difference for yourself! 

 

Klimax DS/0, DS/1, DSM/0 and any Klimax DS to DSM conversions can still have the latest Organik upgrade but they must be sent off to the Linn factory and cannot be done in-store or in your home, however, this will incur no extra charge*

Intensely immersive

Devialet Dione is Devialet’s acoustic engineering applied to home cinema: a high-end, all-in-one Dolby Atmos® 5.1.2 soundbar that elevates all contents on your television.

Engineering excellence

Seventeen autonomous high-end drivers deliver dynamic midrange and crystal-clear treble, while eight built-in SAM®-powered subwoofers remove any need for additional equipment, making Devialet Dione a truly all-in-one soundbar.

Devialet Dione is all you need.

External subwoofer? No need to add what’s already built in. Devialet Dione soundbar boasts eight internal subwoofers, the highest on the market, making it a true all-in-one sound system.

Devialet Dione 8x high-excursion subwoofers are custom-designed to deliver powerful and deep low-frequency effects with improved sound wave directivity to greatly enhance bass restitution and immersion.

We now have the latest version of the Klimax LP12 available for demonstration, with the new Ekstatik cartridge and new improved Radikal.

The latest Flagship LP12 from Linn has arrived. The upgrades include a new design moving coil cartridge and improved motor control unit. The combination of these offer hyper accurate speed control, reduced resonances, which gives a more musical reproduction from your vinyl.

Ekstatik – flagship MC cartridge

• Skeletonised body to achieve ideal overall mass.

• Unique construction creates superb synergy with Ekos SE headshell – wicking away more unwanted resonances out through the sub-chassis.

• Micro-ridge stylus on sapphire cantilever results in less loss between the stylus and the generator.

New Radikal – motor control unit, motor and power supply

• Sustained rotation closer to 33 1⁄3 rpm than ever before, thanks to a hyper-accurate and responsive FPGA-managed motor control unit.
• New housing decouples the motor from the deck more effectively.
• All-new, 6-layer board design facilitates shorter signal paths, and yields Linn’s all-time lowest noise floor.
• Quieter, regulated supply rails have the added halo effect of making the Urika/Urika II internal phono stages sound even better.