Just installed our first Linn Akudorik system, wow!
Akudoriks are the tiny Linn speakers with a big detailed sound from the new proprietary Linn Exakt technology. Exakt gives the most dynamic, coherent and musical sound you will ever hear with no downsides apart from the price!
For the techies the sound from the Linn Exakt streamer goes directly to the speaker stands in digital form, up to Studio Master quality. What comes out of the studio mixing desk arrives identically at your speaker stands.
The stands house the Exakt engine, which downloads the speaker's super detailed performance parameters from the Linn factory and stores them for the best possible room performance.
We then have a lengthy listening and set-up procedure. This involves tiny speaker movements down to 1cm at a time to ascertain the optimum room position for the speakers. Once complete these positions plus your room dimensions are fed into the Exakt engine. When you then tell the 'engine' where you would like the speakers to be it can optomise for the room so that it sounds just the same. Clever eh?
That's not even the cleverest part!
For Exakt to be able to do all this the active crossover section is carried out fully in the digital domain. These tiny adjustments and splits can then be super accurate and tailored to the speakers. After all these adjustments there is a separate DAC section for each drive unit. Instead of one stereo DAC in a normal Linn DS system this has 8 separate DAC channels and then 8 individual 100W power amplifiers controlling the individual drive units.
That's why the speakers look on the face of it like great value at £ 3999. The stands look expensive at £ 9500 until you understand the engineering, DACs, and power amplifiers that are built into the stands.
The result is a revelation. Exakt trumps all other technologies trying to achieve this performance
You can tell we love it, you will too.
Exakt engines are now available for Linn Akudorik, Akubarik, and Klimax level speakers.
In addition Exakt will be available for all 'legacy' Linn speakers such as Akurate 212, 242, Majik 140,and Isobarik, and later for Keltik, Isobarik, Espek, Ninka, etc
