Linn Launch New Digital Products 11/9/2015 0 Comments Thursday 10th September, 10:30 am The Violin Factory, 35a Cornwall Road, South Bank, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ With press launches all over the place this week UK, USA and Berlin our journos had trouble keeping up. I hit the Linn do at the Violin Factory, and found upwards of eight new offerings. MD Gilad Tiefenbrun introduced the new style friendly speakers. We had already experienced Linn’s active linear phase digital version of the B&W Nautilus flagship and now we had the KEF Reference 5, the digital drive system design supported by production tolerance data from Jack Oclee-Brown, head of research at KEF. Linn showed how at some cost such a loudspeaker could be reversibly modified to bypass the passive crossover and be driven actively. Here the crossovers and the phase linearisation, and the low frequency room correction fo...