Linn Akurate DS

The latest Linn Akurate DS player features a new ultra-low jitter master clock and completely redesigned audio board which maximises the potential of the DAC and reproduces stereo music with huge dynamic range and extremely low levels of distortion.

Linn Akurate DS supports all popular digital music types, excelling with the highest quality recording formats such as Studio Masters. Enjoy high quality internet radio streams and podcasts through your Linn Akurate DS and discover the difference a truly high fidelity digital music player can make to the latest online and on-demand music services.

Select your favourite interface from the huge range of compatible UPnP products - from a computer or touchscreen tablet to the latest smartphone - and enjoy album art and playlist control of your entire music collection.

Featuring the highest quality balanced, unbalanced and digital outputs, and housed in a stunning precision-engineered enclosure, Linn Akurate DS has the supreme build quality and software upgradeability that ensures this is a music player engineered to last.

Linn Akurate DS has to be heard to be believed - audition it alongside our other Akurate components to experience for yourself why the Linn Akurate System is the true performance choice for music lovers.

Key Features:

• Plays digital music over a standard Ethernet network
• Streams internet radio, podcasts and 'listen again' broadcasts
• Decodes FLAC, WAV, ALAC, MP3, WMA, AIFF, AAC and OGG audio formats with up to 24-bit 192 kHz native sample rate
• Compatible with UPnP™ media servers and UPnP™ AV 1.0 control points
• Balanced (XLR), unbalanced (RCA) and digital (BNC SPDIF) output
• Linn Dynamik Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS)
• Precision-engineered enclosure offers exceptional acoustic properties

Technical Specifications:

• Dimensions: (H) 91mm x (W) 380mm x (D) 380mm (H) 3.58 inches x (W) 15 inches x (D) 15 inches
• Weight: 5.6 Kg / 12.35 lb
• Mains Supply Voltage: 100 -120 V ac (ï¾±10%) 50-60 Hz
• Auto Ranging: 200-240 V ac (ï¾±10%) 50-60 Hz
• Fuse: 250 V, T1.6 A (not user replaceable)
• Power Consumption: Sleep: 8W Active: 16W
• Supported file type: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, MP3, WMA (except lossless) AIFF, AAC, OGG
• Audio Sample Rates: 7.35 k, 8 k, 11.025 k, 12 k, 14.7 k, 16 k, 22.05 k, 24 k, 29.4 k, 32 k, 44.1 k, 48 k, 88.2 k, 96 k, 176.4 k, 192 k
• Word Depths: 16-24 bits
• Control Protocol: Compatible with UPnP media servers, UPnP AV 1.0 control points
• Control Interfaces: Remote control IR receiver (IR handset supplied), Ethernet 100Base-T RJ45, 6 button front panel keypad, 128 x 32 pixel front panel display
• analogueue Audio: Line Out (L+R): 2 x RCA phono Line Out (L+R): Balnced XLR
• Digital Audio: SPDIF OUT: BNC
• Control: Ethernet: 100 Base T RJ45, RS232 (1 &3) 4 x RJ11
• RCA output: Output Voltage: 2V RMS (0 dBFS, vol 80), Output impedance: 300
• XLR output: Output Voltage: 4 V RMS (0 dBFS, vol. 80), Output impedance: 600
• SPDIF digital output: Output voltage: 0.5 V (when terminated with 75, Output Impedance: 75
• Audio Performance: THD + N <0.002%, Dynamic Range > 110 dB
• Digital Pre-amplifier: Gain Range: -80dB to +20 dB, Gain Resolution: 1dB, Unity Gain Volume: 80

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