KNEKT™ Multi-room System 

Back in the early 1990s, before streaming, Sonos and Spotify were ever thought of, Linn gave Knekt to the world.  If you were wealthy enough, you could have high quality music in as many rooms of your house, or cabins on your yacht, that your heart desired.

In each room you will have a wall mounted RCU (Room Control Unit) which allows you to control the system.  Audio can be distributed from your main hi-fi system or a Kivor or Akurate music server, or you can listen local sources, e.g. a television in each room.

Whilst the cabling in a Knekt system looks like standard CAT5 computer network cable, the termination is different – Knekt pre-dates the CAT5e specification so Linn used their own wiring standard.

The original Knekt system utilised a Linn Pre-amplifier with Knekt capabilities which was called in the system ‘Main room’. This ‘Main room’ shares the music it is playing, or depending on which Linn Pre-amplifier is used, music from another input. This could be distributed to other rooms with Linn Pre-amplifiers, that had Knekt capabilities called ‘Local Rooms’.

Flexibility was one of the key benefits.  Audio is distributed from the hi-fi system, situated in your ‘Main room’ to a number of ‘Local rooms’. Each of the ‘Local rooms’ can listen to, and control the source products (CD player, radio tuner etc) of the ‘Main-room’ system. 

 A ‘Local room’ can also listen to its own local source products such as TV, iPod etc.

A Knekt multi-room system ensured that the best sound was achieved, distributed throughout the home and easily accessed and controlled at the touch of a button, In each room you would have a wall mounted RCU (Room Control Unit) which allows you to control the system. The system could be deployed to specifically meet the requirement of the designed home and customised to suit the requirements and lifestyle. 

Knekt was discontinued in 2011 but at Hidden Systems we have the experience and expertise to maintain, repair or upgrade your Knekt system. Where system components have failed Hidden Systems provide a bespoke consultancy to repair and reprogram recycled components to keep systems running. We can also replace older components with newer models such as Linn’s Kustom DSM. 

 This is charged initially as a site visit to determine the issue – but we endeavour to use the first visit make any simple changes to rectify the problem, so the more information given when contacting us the better.