Organik DAC

What is a Organik DAC

At Linn, nothing progresses beyond the prototype stage if it can’t answer this question with a resounding ‘Yes!’.

Designing and building our own DAC, completely from scratch, was no exception. It was only worth doing if the result would be significantly better than our previous designs utilising 3rd-party chips.

How does it sound? That’s not for us to say…though, rest assured, we don’t do anything unless we can do it better than what’s available elsewhere.

What is a DAC?

A DAC is a Digital to Analogue Convertor.
This takes a digital signal, (1's & 0's) and converts into analogue signal, ( ). This allows you to feed a digital stream of data and get an analogue signal from it.

Where are DAC's used in Linn DS/DSM products

Linn DS/DSM products have two DACs, one for each local analogue audio output.
Linn Exakt DS/DSM & Linn Systems Hubs have NO DACs. (There are NO analogue outputs on these products so no DAC's are required, ONLY Exakt-Link sockets)
the Linn Selekt DSM each cartridge has its own DACs, each cartridge DAC will ONLY feed its own analogue outputs (line-level or Power Amplifier)

Points to note

Each DAC only feeds the local audio outputs and NO effect on the any of other Linn DS/DSM outputs

If you have a Linn DSM with Organik DACs these have NO EFFECT affect of the Exakt-link output(s).

Example1:

If you have a

Klimax DSM/3 (default version with Organik DAC's) and a set of
Klimax 350 speakers (earlier version without any Organik upgrades).

Then your system is non-ORGANIK. This is because the Klimax 350 do all of the digital processing within the speaker module. It is the speaker module internals that then use their inbuilt DACs to feed the module internal power amplifier and loudspeaker drive units. These model Klimax 350 are not fitted with Organik DACs.

With Selekt DSM, all variants: Organik DAC modules CANNOT be used with Standard and Katalyst DAC modules in different cartridges, in the same Selekt DSM