Linn Akurate DSM System

The performance choice for music lovers, the Linn Akurate DSM system combines beautiful styling with compelling sound quality. If you’re looking for a system that preserves every last musical detail, it has to be Akurate. Superbly engineered and built to exacting standards, re-ignite your passion for music with the Akurate system.

Features the Akurate DSM player, Akurate 2200 power amplifier and Akurate 242 loudspeakers. A separate power amplifier helps improve musical performance and Akurate 2200 is responsive and powerful enough for the most demanding music, delivering loud, complex passages and quiet interludes with equal precision.

Rediscover your music collection with Akurate DSM, a digital music player which will re-ignite your passion for music.

Akurate DSM excels with any digital music, reproducing your favourite albums with exceptional dynamic range and musical detail. Choose your preferred phone or tablet to control your music and select from high quality internet radio stations and the latest online music services.

Housed in a stunning precision-engineered enclosure, Akurate DSM brings a level of elegance to your living area that matches the audio performance. With enough analogue and digital inputs to connect any audio source, it will also bring your movies, tv and games to life like never before.

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
• Songcast support allows synchronised playback of audio around the home
• 14 inputs (Balanced (XLR), RCA Phono, HDMI, S/PDIF, Toslink) for connection and up-sampling of additional sources
• Hybrid volume control for digital sources, combines coarse analogue attenuation with fine digital adjustment
• Balanced (XLR) input, plus balanced (XLR) and unbalanced (RCA) outputs
• HDMI, S/PDIF and TOSLINK inputs, plus HDMI pass-thru
• Option to convert one analogue input to Phono (configurable to moving magnet or moving coil)
• AUX input on front for easy connection of portable devices such as MP3 players
• Linn Dynamik Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS)
• Precision-engineered enclosure offers exceptional acoustic properties
• Compatible with UPnP™ media servers and UPnP™ AV 1.0 control points

Specification:

• Date of introduction: November 2011
• Type: Multi-source digital stream player with built in pre-amplifier
• Dimensions:
  - (H) 80 mm x (W) 381 mm x (D) 355 mm
  - (H) 3.15 inches x (W) 15 inches x (D) 14 inches
  
  
• Weight: 5.8 kg / 12.9 lb
• Mains supply voltage (auto ranging): 100–120 V ac (±10%) 50–60 Hz 200–240 V ac (±10%) 50–60 Hz
• Fuse: 250 V, T1.6 A (not user replaceable)
• Power consumption:
  - Sleep 8 W (HDMI disabled)
  - Sleep 12 W (HDMI enabled)
  - Active 32 W (maximum)
  
  
• Supported file types: 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
  
  Back Panel Connectors
• Analogue inputs:
  - 1 x Balanced XLR (pair)
  - 2 x RCA Phono (pair) *
  * One RCA input is configurable as Phono, either Movable Magnet or Moving Coil
  
  
• Analog outputs:
  - 1 x Balanced XLR (pair)
  - 2 x RCA Phono (pair) *
  * All outputs are volume controlled (i.e. suitable for direct connection to a power amplifier or active loudspeaker)
  
• Line out (L+R): RCA Phono
• HDMI in: 4 x HDMI Type A
• HDMI out: 1 x HDMI Type A
• S/PDIF In: 3 x RCA phono
• S/PDIF Out: 1 x RCA phono
• Optical In: 3 x TOSLINK (JIS F05)
• Optical Out: TOSLINK (JIS F05)
• Ethernet: 100Base-T RJ45
  
  Front Panel Connectors
• Headphones: 1 x 3.5 mm stereo jack
• Auxiliary input: 1 x 3.5 mm stereo jack
  
  Input Electrical
• XLR inputs:
  - Input sensitivity: can be selected from 2 / 4 / 8 V RMS
  - Input impedance: 7.8 k ohms
• RCA inputs (line-level):
  - Input sensitivity: can be selected from 1 / 2 / 4 V RMS
  - Input impedance: 10 k ohms
• RCA inputs (MC phono stage):
  - Input impedance: 180 ohms / 10 nF
  - Max. Input Voltage: 5.0 mV @ 1 kHz (high gain setting)
  - Gain: +64 dB @ 1 kHz (high gain setting)
  - +54 dB @ 1 kHz (low gain setting)
  - Signal-to-noise ratio: better than 90 dB
• RCA inputs (MM phono stage):
  - Input impedance: 47 k ohms / 68 pF
  - Max. Input Voltage: 70.0 mV @ 1 kHz (high gain setting)
  - Gain: +40 dB @ 1 kHz (high gain setting)
  - Signal-to-noise ratio: better than 90 dB
  
• S/PDIF outputs:
  - Min. output voltage: 0.5 V RMS (when terminated with 75 ohms)
  - Output impedance: 75 ohms
• Auxiliary input:
  - Input sensitivity: can be selected from 0.5 / 1 / 2 V RMS
  - Input impedance: 10 k ohms
  
  Output Electrical
• XLR outputs:
  - Max. output voltage: 4 V RMS (0 dBFS at vol. 80)
  - Output impedance: 600 ohms
• RCA outputs:
  - Max. output voltage: 2 V RMS (0 dBFS at vol. 80)
  - Output impedance: 300 ohms
• Headphone output:
  - Max. output voltage: 2 V RMS (0 dBFS at vol. 80)
  - Output impedance: < 2 ohms
  - Output current: 40 mA in Class-A
• S/PDIF outputs:
  - Min. output voltage: 0.5 V RMS (when terminated with 75 ohms)
  - Output impedance: 75 ohms
• HDMI: 4-input to 1-output HDMI 1.4 repeater
  
  Pre-amplifier
  
  Analogue sources have an optional ‘direct’ path with analog volume control. All other sources and ‘non-direct’ analog sources use a hybrid volume control. Hybrid volume control combines coarse analogue attenuation with fine digital adjustment.
  
  
• Analogue volume control:
  - Gain range: - 80 dB to + 20 dB
  - Gain resolution: 1 dB
• Hybrid volume control:
  - Analogue Attenuation: Selectable: 0 / -12 / -24 dB
  - Digital gain range: -80db to +20dB
  - Digital gain resolution: 1dB
  
  Audio Performance
• Line inputs:
  - THD+N: < 0.002 %
  - Dynamik range: > 110 dB
• Pre-amplifier:
  - Gain range: - 80 dB to + 20 dB
  - Gain resolution: 1 dB
  - Unity gain volume: 0 dB = vol. 80

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