Linn — 520 System

Customise

Create your own look

Select your Fabrik cover, top plate and stand to personalise your speakers. With so many colours and textiles to choose from, and designer collections like Timorous Beasties, there's a look to complement any interior.

Fancy a change? All Linn Fabrik covers, tops and stands are available separately so you can refresh the look as often as you like.

Network Player

Akurate System Hub

Browse your digital music library, stream online music and video and hear movie soundtracks, all in exceptional detail. This Akurate network music player connects to virtually any music or audio source in your home and plays it flawlessly.

Housed in the specially designed acoustic enclosure, every source is screened and protected from noise, ensuring the speakers receive the highest quality signal, whether you're streaming your favourite playlist or connecting your turntable to one of the 13 inputs.

Perfect streaming to your speakers

Featuring Linn's streaming technology and a range of inputs to connect anything in your living room, every musical performance is perfectly transmitted to the speakers using Linn's Exakt Link lossless connection.

Technology

Space Optimisation

Using sophisticated acoustic modelling, Space Optimisation builds a complete picture of how your speakers, their placement, and the unique characteristics of your room interact to affect the sound you hear.

By removing the unwanted distorting effects of your listening environment, it reveals the true sound of the music. Now you can place your speakers exactly where you want them and still enjoy great performance.

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Exakt

Our latest systems use Exakt technology to preserve the natural sound of every instrument.

Until now, no speaker system has ever been able to synchronise all the elements that make up every note, including all the harmonics. Exakt ensures the perfect time alignment of every part of every note, so now you can enjoy the same natural sound that was recorded by the artist.

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Integrated Exakt Modules

Each speaker has a dedicated digital crossover, volume control, digital-to-analogue converter and amplifier for every drive unit. So where are all the extra boxes and cables?

That’s where Linn’s expertise in integrated speaker design comes in. Each speaker has a module suspension-mounted on the back to acoustically isolate it from the cabinet. Packed inside are all the Exakt electronics and powerful amps needed to deliver the natural, effortless sound. Cooling is performed passively without any noisy fans, via the aluminium heat sink hidden behind the Linn Fabrik. Providing power and precision without any extra boxes, it’s our neatest integrated speaker design to date.

Precisely Crafted Cabinets

The foundation of any good speaker design is an enclosure that lets the drive units work with maximum efficiency, without colouring the sound.

For Series 5, we used a layered composite of 3 mm sheets. Using multiple thin layers actually increases the tensile strength and therefore rigidity of the material, while still preserving its acoustically dead properties. Combined with the braced construction, this results in a cabinet that doesn’t add unwanted vibrations and doesn’t ring, but does give the drive units an incredibly stable platform to work from.

Custom-Designed Drive Units

The ambitious design of Series 5 led to a unique set of requirements for the drive units that couldn’t be met by any existing specification.

The 530 needed compact yet very long-throw, low-resonance units for use in the Isobarik bass system. The unique arrangement of tweeter and bass/mid driver on both models also required customised drive units. The bass/mid driver uses a unique doped, dual-layer, sliced cone design and an anti-resonant chamber on the back of the high quality tweeter improves high frequency performance when used in conjunction with the familiar Linn ‘skoop’, producing outstanding dispersion characteristics.

Linn Fabrik

To offer the unique style and customisation possibilities of Series 5, without affecting the performance, we came up with a new way to finish speakers — Linn Fabrik.

Linn's unique Exakt technology models the effects of each Fabrik’s characteristics on the frequency and phase response of every drive unit in the speakers. Exakt's digital crossover eliminates any unwanted distorting effects to ensure that no matter which Fabrik you choose, your speakers will produce the same breathtaking performance we designed here in the factory.

Klimax System

Akubarik

Akudorik

530

520 Majik 140

Majik 109

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Speakers

Network Music Player

Inputs

Klimax System

Ethernet	x 1
Balanced XLR	x 1
RCA Phono	x 1
Toslink	x 2
SPDIF	x 2
HDMI 2.0	x 3
3.5 mm Stereo Aux	None

Akubarik System

Ethernet	x 1
Balanced XLR	x 1
RCA Phono	x 2
Toslink	x 3
SPDIF	x 3
HDMI 2.0	x 4
3.5 mm Stereo Aux	None

Akudorik System

Ethernet	x 1
Balanced XLR	x 1
RCA Phono	x 2
Toslink	x 3
SPDIF	x 3
HDMI 2.0	x 4
3.5 mm Stereo Aux	None

530 System

Ethernet	x 1
Balanced XLR	x 1
RCA Phono	x 2
Toslink	x 3
SPDIF	x 3
HDMI 2.0	x 4
3.5 mm Stereo Aux	None

520 System

Ethernet	x 1
Balanced XLR	x 1
RCA Phono	x 2
Toslink	x 3
SPDIF	x 3
HDMI 2.0	x 4
3.5 mm Stereo Aux	None

Majik 140 System

Ethernet	x 1
HDMI	x 4
HDMI ARC	x 1 (via HDMI output)
Toslink	x 1
SPDIF	x 1 (configurable in/out)
USB Audio Class 2 endpoint	x 1
WiFi	yes
Bluetooth	yes
RCA Phono	x 1 pair - configurable Line-Level (default) / MM-phono
¼ inch Headphone Jack	x 1

Majik 109 System

Ethernet	x 1
HDMI	x 4
HDMI ARC	x 1 (via HDMI output)
Toslink	x 1
SPDIF	x 1 (configurable in/out)
USB (Type B)	x 1
WiFi	yes
Bluetooth	yes
RCA Phono	x 1 pair - configurable Line-Level (default) / MM-phono
¼ inch Headphone Jack	x 1

Phono Stage

MM/MC (configurable)

[MM

Surround Compatible

Yes

Exakt

Yes

Space Optimisation

Space Optimisation+

Yes

Speaker Finishes

Black Ash, Rosenut, Walnut, Cherry, Oak, White

Aubergine, Black, Blueberry, Butterscotch, Paprika

Black Ash, Rosenut, Walnut, Cherry, Oak, White

System finished in Black, White, Silver or Champagne

Custom Finishes

Yes — match any colour

Harris Tweed: Barley, Granite, Grouse, Peat, Spruce.

Timorous Beasties: Birdbranch, Birds n Bees, Grand Blotch Damask, Indie Wood, Kaleido Splatt, Omni Splatt, Thistle.

Yes — match any colour

Speaker Size

Klimax 350 Speakers

Width	404 mm
Height	1130 mm
Depth	482 mm

Akubarik Speakers

Width	351 mm
Height	1050 mm
Depth	450 mm

Akudorik Speakers

Width	304 mm
Height	958 mm
Depth	388 mm

530 Speakers

Width	232 mm
Height	954 mm
Depth	325 mm

520 Speakers

Width	224 mm
Height	892 mm
Depth	218 mm

Majik 140 Speakers

Width	250 mm
Height	975 mm
Depth	335 mm

Majik 109 Speakers

Width	192 mm
Height	327 mm
Depth	256 mm

Network Player Size

Klimax DSM

Width	350 mm
Height	61 mm
Depth	355 mm

Akurate DSM

Width	380 mm
Height	91 mm
Depth	380 mm

Akurate DSM

Width	380 mm
Height	91 mm
Depth	380 mm

Akurate DSM

Width	380 mm
Height	91 mm
Depth	380 mm

Akurate DSM

Width	380 mm
Height	91 mm
Depth	380 mm

Majik DSM

Width	350 mm
Height	100 mm
Depth	350 mm

Majik DSM

Width	350 mm
Height	100 mm
Depth	350 mm

520 System

Complement your interior

Make a Statement

520 System

Speakers

520 Speakers

Power and intelligence built-in

Customise

Create your own look

Blueberry

Aubergine

Paprika

Vanilla

Butterscotch

Black

Birds n Bees

Kaleido Splatt

Indie Wood

Thistle (Hand Screen Print)

Birdbranch (Hand Screen Print)

Grand Blotch Damask

Omni Splatt

Granite

Peat

Spruce

Grouse

Barley

Thistle Aubergine

Birdbranch Butterscotch

Napoleon Bee Blueberry

Napoleon Bee Paprika

Network Player