Surround Sound Variations

There are a few Surround Sound options with the Linn DSM:

Original Surround capability

Up to Davaar 37 firmware, (May 2016), and Majik/Akurate/Klimax products with HDMI-1 boards.

The HDMI audio could be split to allow the Front Left/Right to play on the Linn DSM and remaining channels fed to the Linn DSM HDMI OUT to a surround processor to deal with the remaining channel.

Details of this operation can be found Surround options up to Davaar 37

Software controlled Surround capability

• From Davaar 55 (Mar 2017), and Majik/Akurate/Klimax DSM products with HDMI-1 or HDMI-2 boards.
  

These products can take multi-channel PCM audio from the HDMI input. This PCM audio could then be used with the Linn DSM analogue outputs and Exakt-link connections. This now allowed the capabailty of 7.1ch Surround audio, the limitation is that the HDMI source MUST be able to feed this Surround Format.

Details of this operation can be found Surround_Sound from Davaar 55