Linn
Series 5-530
Fully Integrated Aktiv loudspeaker with built-in Exakt technology
Your style, your sound
Please contact us so we can help you configure these loudspeakers to match your decor.
Create the perfect look for your home by selecting your Fabrik cover, top plate and stand finish - with so many colours and textiles to choose from, Series 5 complements any interior. All options are available separately, so if you change your décor you can refresh the look.
Expertly designed to deliver outstanding musical performance in style, the 530 uses Exakt technology and a powerful Isobarik bass system to ensure the music makes as big an impression as the design.
Underneath that stylish exterior is a speaker packed with technology.
The 530 integrates Exakt electronics, 300 W of power amps and an
incredible Isobarik bass system; not that you’d know it from the elegant
curves and discreet size.
Place them where they fit best in your room and still enjoy exceptional performance. Space Optimisation+ takes care of optimising the sound for your room's characteristics and chosen speaker location.
Add to any Exakt-enabled Linn network music player and enjoy impeccable sound and style from a complete music system that you can customise to perfectly complement your home.
Small footprint. Big bass.
Linn’s Isobarik bass system lets you enjoy a depth of bass normally associated with much larger speakers by using two bass drive units working in tandem, positioned face-to-face at the foot of the speaker.
Bass is directed downwards and radiates out from the speaker through a precisely engineered air gap above the base. The 530 produces incredible bass extension using this system in combination with dual bass ports located on the underside of the cabinet to enable additional airflow.
Linn Fabrik
To offer the unique style and customisation possibilities of Series 5, without affecting the performance, Linn 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 in the factory.
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, Linn 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 unique arrangement of tweeter and bass/mid driver 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. Furthermore, the 530 needed
compact yet very long-throw, low-resonance units for use in the Isobarik
bass system.
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 acousticallyisolate 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.
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.
Exakt
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 sound that was recorded by the artist.
