dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier

£9,000.00

A truly ‘ground up’ design, the Lina Headphone Amplifier is engineered to deliver the highest levels of performance, quality and reliability

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dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier

dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier

About the Lina Headphone Amplifier

Whether you’re listening with custom IEMs or reference-level over-ears, the Lina Headphone Amplifier will ensure you experience the full impact of your chosen headphones, and your music.

With its ultra-low output impedance, it confidently drives a vast range of designs, and adapts to suit their unique requirements and characteristics for optimal performance.

Their first ever standalone amplifier, its design builds on learnings gained from their experience working at the forefront of audio design and engineering, and developing a custom Class AB headphone amplifier for the award-winning dCS Bartók Headphone DAC.

Following the Bartók’s release, they set out to further their work in headphone amplification, and engineer a standalone component that could be used separately or as part of a complete dCS headfi system.

Through exhaustive development, extensive testing, and creative thinking, they developed an all-new design that combines tried and tested features with novel innovations engineered to further enhance performance and efficiency.

The result is an exemplary headphone amplifier that delivers plenty of power and grip, while maintaining complete neutrality.

With its low noise floor, wide dynamic range and excellent linearity, it delivers a compelling, dynamic experience that reveals the true sound and character of your music and headphones.

A novel approach

The Lina Headphone Amplifier features a unique Class SuperA output stage that allows us to maintain a high degree of linearity and efficiency.

Its design offers the fidelity of Class A system with the thermal properties of a Class B – meaning less heat generation, higher efficiency, and none of the crossover distortion problems typically associated with Class B designs.

To achieve this, they developed a DC servo system with novel error correction technique, which allows them to maintain a clean signal path and correct incoming voltages at source.

This approach provides all of the performance benefits of a Class A system, while also keeping heat – and power usage – under control.

A perfect companion

dCS perfect companion

The Lina Headphone Amplifier’s variety of balanced and unbalanced inputs make it a perfect addition to virtually any high-end headfi setup.

Buffered and unbuffered options make it compatible with both high and low impedance digital sources, and guarantee the best possible sound from whatever source you choose to connect.

Pair with their Lina Network DAC for the ultimate headfi experience, or use it individually with whatever system you desire.

Choice without compromise

Different kinds of headphones require differing amounts of voltage and current, depending on their efficiency and impedance.

The dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier is specifically designed to cope with widely varying loads and deliver an outstanding performance with a huge range of headphones – whatever their individual requirements or characteristics.

This is achieved through a range of features and factors, including a low output impedance design, low noise floor, wide dynamic range, and an adjustable gain switch which removes the risk of hiss when listening with highly sensitive equipment.

Perfect neutrality

All dCS products are carefully engineered to provide the highest level of transparency, and the Lina Headphone Amplifier is no exception.

dCS gone to great lengths to create an amplifier that drives your headphones to the best of their ability, while honouring their unique character – be it neutral, warm, bright, cool, or anything in between.

Developed and tested with a variety of headphones, it is an amplifier that preserves and celebrates the sound of your chosen equipment, so you can experience your headphones exactly as the designer or manufacturer intended.

Ambitious engineering

A truly ‘ground up’ design, the Lina Headphone Amplifier is engineered to deliver the highest levels of performance, quality and reliability.

This is reflected in everything from the arrangement of internal components, to the design of its circuitry, electronics, and billet Aluminium casework (selected for its excellent acoustic and electromagnetic properties) they have relentlessly studied and questioned every aspect of headphone amplification, developing new features and techniques, while pushing existing technologies to their limits, with the sole aim of creating the finest headphone amplifier available.

Specifications: dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier

Specifications: dCS Lina Headphone Amplifier
·       Dimensions / Weight

121.5mm (H) x 220mm (W) x 356mm (D) / 7.5kg

·       Headphone Outputs
  • 1 x dual 3-pin balanced XLR, right and left channel
    • 1 x single 4-pin balanced XLR
    • 1 x single 1⁄4” (6.35mm) headphone jack
·       Signal to Noise Ratio

110dB 20Hz-20kHz A-weighted
(referenced to 6V rms balanced input and output)

·       Analogue Inputs
  • 1 x stereo pair unbalanced RCA, input impedance 48kΩ
    • 1 x stereo pair unbuffered balanced XLR, input impedance 16kΩ
    • 1 x stereo pair buffered balanced XLR, input impedance 96kΩ
·       THD+N

<0.005% @ 1kHz 6V rms balanced output into 30Ω (80kHz bandwidth)

·       Frequency Response

1Hz-100kHz Better than +0/-3dB

Brand

dCS

dCS Founded in Cambridge, UK, by a group of expert electronic engineers, Data Conversion Systems originally designed and manufactured high performance analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analogue converters (DACs) for major telecommunications companies and military agencies, whose primary requirement was technology that delivered state-of-the-art precision, linearity and reliability. Their success in this field meant that dCS quickly became known for the performance of its converters and so, recognising in the late nineteen eighties that this technology had a key role in music recording and playback, the company decided to concentrate on developing products for the recording industry. While the focus had changed, their commitment to producing systems of unrivalled accuracy had not, and consequently their products were – and still are – used by some of the world’s most successful recording studios and personnel. dCS recruited some of the smartest and most creative digital audio engineers in the world, and the company evolved into producing digital hi-fi sources which let music lovers enjoy sound of unrivalled quality in their own home. This focus on Research & Development also resulted in a range of proprietary dCS technologies of which the most significant is the legendary dCS Ring DAC™. Their products continue to set new standards of performance in terms of both objective test measurements and subjective listening Performance Matters At dCS they care deeply about meeting their own uncompromisingly high standards. They hope their products stir a passion for music that lasts a lifetime and their greatest success is that products become invisible, leaving you the listener with only the music. Delighted customers and industry recognition have followed them too. Over the last quarter of a century dCS has amassed a wealth of awards

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