Linn Akurate DSM/3 (upgraded from DSM/1) with Katalyst - Black

Rediscover your music collection with Akurate DSM, a network music player and pre-amp that will reignite your passion for music.
Listen to your favourite albums and enjoy exceptional dynamic range and musical detail. With enough analogue and digital inputs to connect any audio source, Akurate DSM will bring music, movies, TV and games to life like never before. Akurate DSM supports all popular digital music types, excelling with the highest quality recording format, Studio Master. You will also enjoy higher quality from your CDs or digital music collection. Play internet radio streams and podcasts through Akurate DSM and discover the difference a truly high fidelity digital music player can make to the latest online and on-demand music services. Using standard analogue outputs, Akurate DSM can be connected to any power amplifier or Aktiv speaker, plus with Linn Exakt Link connections, it’s Exakt-ready for future system upgrades.
With analogue and digital inputs, you can connect any audio or video source and make it sound incredible. Any digital sources will sound better as they benefit from the superior DAC and custom Linn up-sampling of the audio. Akurate DSM can be controlled using your preferred touchscreen device with Linn’s own control app. Browse your whole music collection and instantly access online music and movie content through your existing wi-fi home network.
Features:
Plays digital music over a standard Ethernet network
Built-in pre-amplifier with separate analogue and digital volume control circuits for each type of source
Decodes FLAC, WAV, Apple Lossless (ALAC), MP3, WMA, AIFF, AAC and OGG audio formats with up to 24-bit 192 kHz native sample rate
Streams internet radio, podcasts and ‘listen again’ broadcasts
14 inputs (Analogue (XLR/RCA), HDMI, S/PDIF, TOSlink) for connection and up-sampling of additional sources
AUX input on front for easy connection of portable devices
Headphone output
Linn Dynamik Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS)
Katalyst DAC
Katalyst is our fourth generation DAC design. Our first, Numerik, was back in 1991 and was followed by the CD12 in 1998 and the Klimax DS in 2007. With each generation we’ve pushed the limits of the technology to deliver the best analogue signal possible, and as technology has improved so have the possibilities.
With Katalyst, we took a DAC chip designed for a wide range of uses and personalised it to make it perfect for Linn systems and Linn customers. And the original chip designer, AKM, couldn’t be happier: we’re the AMG to their Mercedes-Benz, taking a standard design and completely rebuilding it to make something truly extraordinary. By showing other manufacturers the possibilities of AKM’s architecture when it’s pushed to the very extremes of performance, we’ve blazed a trail that AKM hopes other firms may follow.
Our high-performance Katalyst DAC architecture performs the digital-to-analogue conversion process with a high degree of accuracy and finesse.
With Katalyst, we have reached the absolute pinnacle of performance attainable while utilising trusted and high-quality 3rd-party chipsets. Through relentless optimisation of the various critical processes adjacent to the DAC itself, we have produced a refined data optimisation stage; a highly accurate master clock; independent power supply wells; a low distortion output driver, and a high stability reference voltage level.
The latter is vitally important. At the point of creation, the delicate analogue audio signal is particularly susceptible to even minuscule variations in the reference level, which would cause irreversible damage to the music — heard as distortion or noise. Katalyst’s high-stability input reference level eliminates variations during analogue signal creation, giving you deeper insight into your music.

Type: Network music player and pre-amplifier with Exakt Link
Supported File Types: FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), WAV, MP3, WMA (except lossless), AIFF, AAC, OGG
Word Depths: 16 – 24 bits
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
Control Protocol: Compatible with UPnP™ media servers, UPnP™ AV 1.0 control points
Analogue Inputs: 1 x Balanced XLR (pair); 1 x RCA Inputs (Line Level): 1 x RCA Inputs (Line Level/MM/MC Configurable); 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Aux Input
Analogue Outputs: 1 x Balanced XLR (pair); 1 x RCA Inputs (Line Level); 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Headphone
HDMI Inputs: 4 x HDMI Type A
HDMI Outputs: 1 x HDMI Type A
S/PDIF In: 3 x RCA phono
S/PDIF Out: 1 x RCA phono
Optical In: 2 x TOSLINK (JIS F05)
Optical Out: 1 x TOSLINK (JIS F05)
Exakt Links: 4 x RJ45
Ethernet: 100Base-T RJ45
Power Supply: Dynamik PSU
Mains Supply Frequency: 50 – 60 Hz
Mains Input Voltage: 100 – 120 VAC; (auto-sensing) 200 – 240 VAC
Power Consumption: Sleep 26 W (HDMI disabled); Sleep 27W (HDMI enabled); Active 30W
Dimensions: 380 (W) x 380 (D) x 91 (H) mm
Weight: 5.8 kg

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