About Us

House of Linn is Europe's Leading Linn Audio Specialist, owned and operated by former Linn senior staff.

Better than any hi-fi shop, our music demonstration rooms are inside a house, in real living rooms and real living spaces, so you discover how we make your music sound as real in your home - music in one room, or music distributed throughout your home. House of Linn is a real house where you discover how music should sound in your home.

For the best performance from a Linn audio system - talk to us.

We offer personal demonstrations, advice, sales, installation, service and aftercare. We combine thirty years of Linn's values, knowledge and experience, so our standards and Linn expertise are second to none.

Our website is designed to enable you to review the entire Linn product range, request a demonstration at House of Linn from any of the product pages, and to request product information from any of the product pages.

Our website also offers an on-line shopping facility for Linn accessories.

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We always remember our first experiences as hi-fi enthusiasts - and as customers, comparing different brands of hi-fi - and then discovering the thrill of listening to our favourite recordings through hi-fi systems driven simply by a Linn source component, and how with Linn, recorded music became alive, realistic and truly moving.

Linn components and Linn systems continue to demonstrate recorded music better than any other brand, and we can never forget how owning a Linn Hi-Fi System continues to enrich our lives.

From Linn customers to Linn advocates - (and virtually all Linn owners become strong Linn advocates) - to House of Linn - because Linn gets us closer to the music than anything other than live performance. Talk to us, book a personal demonstration and you will hear why.

We specialise in best demonstration, sales and best-practice installation of Linn analogue and digital components, stereo music systems, multi-channel music systems, home cinema systems and networked multi-room music systems.

We have the best domestic demonstration facilities available in a real home for you to discover how we can make music sound real in your home.

We offer straightforward and professional expertise to help you improve the way you, your partners, families and friends feel at home with simply better sound for music and movies.

From single systems for music and movies to network music throughout the home - the listening experience at House of Linn is so good that demonstrations can last for hours.

Take a tour of the House on-line and read our news and events page for the latest information, or simply call us to chat.

Because House of Linn is owned and operated by former Linn staff, we are Europe's Leading Linn Specialist who deliver the full customer benefits of Linn's integrated capability.

Contact us to discover how we make music sound real in your home!

House of Linn is an independent limited company registered in the United Kingdom and is not a subsidiary company of Linn Products Limited.

House of Linn in Greater Manchester is your Linn centre of excellence for reference demonstrations, sales, installation, service, upgrades, advice and aftercare for all Linn Hi-Fi source, control and playback components and systems.

We have 30 years experience and knowledge of Linn components and systems.

We specialise exclusively in Linn, offering the range of Linn components and systems including powerful Linn Aktiv systems for stereo and multi-channel music and movies.

House of Linn is a large, comfortable Victorian home with the range of Linn systems installed without compromise for permanent demonstrations in each of the four principal living rooms.

House of Linn is a real house to enable you to discover what Linn can do for you in your home. Linn entertainment systems can deliver the experience of live performance in the home and House of Linn was conceived and designed to thrill customers who experience the Linn demonstration.

House of Linn offer individual, personalised demonstrations, sales, installation and aftercare for Linn audio components and systems.

We help you choose the best Linn audio components and systems for your requirements by demonstrating the range of Linn performance options so that you can decide for yourself.

We install and register your purchase to ensure the ultimate and continued performance of any Linn component or system.

We regularly update our news and events page so please review for current information.

In addition to special evening events at House of Linn, to appreciate the complete Linn experience we see clients by appointment, one client at a time, Monday - Saturday 10am-10pm, please email: listentothemusic@houseoflinn.com

Telephone: 0161 766 4837

Click here for the House of Linn website home page http://www.houseoflinn.com

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Linn Products was established in 1972 by Ivor Tiefenbrun. Born in Glasgow, Ivor was passionate about two things – engineering and listening to music. When he couldn’t buy a hi-fi good enough to satisfy his needs he decided to make one himself.

In 1972 Linn introduced the Sondek LP12 turntable. The longest-lived hi-fi product still in production anywhere in the world, and still the benchmark by which all turntables are judged.

The remarkable ability of the Sondek LP12 turntable to extract more music information from records led to the understanding that retrieving and protecting the source signal carefully was what mattered most. An unusual company started by an unusual individual for unusual reasons.

Back in the early 70’s, the conventional industry wisdom was that sound quality was determined by good or bad speakers. The experts believed the hi-fi chain started with the speakers and worked down to the source of the music – at that time – the turntable. This understanding dominated the way the industry designed new systems. But Ivor believed the exact opposite to be true.

The source of the music was the most important element. As odd as it seemed at the time – his reasoning was pretty straightforward. Common sense really. To pick up the music on a turntable, the needle follows the record grooves for information stored in the groove walls. Movements so minute, they are measured in microns. It’s when you scale the ‘groove world’ up to inches that things start to get pretty hair raising. Suddenly you are in a deep crevice. The walls are undulated. Approaching at an alarming speed is a bobsled. As it hurtles through the passage it has to pick up tiny pieces of information. The bobsled is, or course, the needle. And to pick up a deep organ note it has to swerve 10 feet 6 inches. For a high violin note it’s less than an inch. A difference which may not seem staggering in itself. Until you stop to consider that the needle is travelling 6 miles per second. And that the pivot point of the lever controlling it is 4 miles away. In these terms you can see how easy it is to miss out on critical information.

These same principles apply today. No speakers in the world can bring back lost music. It must be dealt with at its source, for example, the DS player or CD player, the DVD player or the Tuner. A painfully obvious idea. Yet at that time the entire industry ridiculed it. Because it pointed out they were wrong. So Ivor ignored them. And quietly set about building a turntable.

The Linn Sondek LP12 turntable revolutionised the hi-fi industry proving categorically that the source of the music is the most important component in the hi-fi chain. Linn then set out to make the other components in the hi-fi chain as revolutionary as the first, setting new standards for performance over the years with each new product.

Today, Linn is a substantial independent precision engineering company based in Glasgow, Scotland, uniquely focused on the design, manufacture and sale of complete music and home theatre systems for customers the world over who seek only the best. Linn music and home cinema systems are hand-built and precision engineered in Scotland and can be found throughout the world in luxury homes, royal residences, and on-board the world’s finest superyachts.

Everyone has the ability to appreciate music. It can spark the imagination, help you relax and change your mood, as well as provide entertainment and pleasure. The job of a sound system is to reproduce music. The better it does this, the better it sounds - the more benefit it offers. The best sound systems can change your life. Real hi-fi provides more accurate reproduction than standard mass-produced products, and makes it easy to respond naturally to recorded music. The better the music reproduction you have at home, the more pleasure your sound system will bring and the more you’ll enjoy an ever-widening variety of music. All Linn products are designed to deliver exceptional audio performance and to bring you the ultimate music and movie experience. Precision engineering, attention to detail and a keen understanding of customer needs shape every component, from the most complex home theatre solution to the most discreet music system.

You know how much pleasure music brings to your life. It can pick you up. It can calm you down. It can move your feet and stimulate your mind. Because Linn believe in being true to the music, the focus has always been on developing systems that reproduce sound as faithfully as possible to the original recording.

Over the decades experience gave Linn a clear understanding of how sound travels from recording to loudspeakers, and an appreciation that the sound reproduction process is only as strong as its weakest link. Only music and movies reproduced to the highest standards can bring you lasting pleasure, so at Linn accurate reproduction always comes first.

Linn believe everything can be improved by human interest and attention to detail. So the same person builds, tests, and packs a complete product from start to finish. This ensures a standard of construction and a sense of pride and involvement that is just not possible on a production line. They take all the time necessary to ensure every detail is correct. Only then will the person responsible for building the product personally sign their name on the back and pack it for despatch. Every product can be tracked all the way from that individual to the customer, anywhere in the world.

"If a system is not good enough to change your life, it is probably not worth buying. A good system should change the way you live and the way you feel for the better". - - Ivor Tiefenbrun M.B.E. Executive Chairman, Linn Products Limited.

"To us, music in your life is a necessity and quality reproduction essential. The unique, pure sound of Linn is the most accurate sound possible, delivering the most involving music and the most absorbing cinema. We believe our approach is the best, but the way to judge us is to listen to our products".

"Linn are a precision engineering company and we make precision engineered sound and vision components. Our job is the application of measurement and making things work. The making things work bit is not at all well understood. It’s called engineering. It is the hard and gruelling part of delivering superior performance".

"We know that once a customer buys a Linn system, the longer they have it the more they appreciate it, the more their taste in music expands and the more prepared they are to invest in its maintenance and development. This is one of the reasons a Linn system retains so much more value and lasts so much longer than anything else. It is possible to enjoy music in a genre with which you are already familiar and which you have learned to appreciate, even on a pretty poor system, but that level of sound reproduction is not good enough to help a country music person enjoy opera or vice versa. A good system will enable the listener to make this kind of transition and expand their taste in many dramatic ways because all music has merit".

Ivor Tiefenbrun M.B.E. Executive Chairman, Linn Products Limited. www.linn.co.uk

A single-minded philosophy guaranteeing outstanding product performance.

Linn systems are sold only by selected specialist retailers who share Linn’s commitment to music and home theatre. Our advice to customers has always been simple: if it sounds better, it is better. All you have to do is listen. Linn call this method of judging a system, the Tune Dem™.

The introduction of the Linn range of Digital Source components in 2007 by Gilad Tiefenbrun, Linn's Managing Director, (then as Linn's Director of Engineering) continues to re-affirm the importance and value of the source component in the hi-fi chain.

As the 1972 Linn Sondek LP12 Turntable was Ivor's product in the context of its significance in establishing Linn Products Limited, the Linn DS is "Gilad's LP12" and in so-doing Gilad has in fact reinvented the wheel by designing a digital source component as significant to retrieving digitally recorded music as the LP12 turntable was and still is, to the reproduction of music stored on vinyl.

Linn’s philosophy of making systems that are modular, expandable and upgradeable ensures you can develop your system over a lifetime, gradually improving its performance. Customers who love music have built Linn’s business, so we look after them. Linn continually improve their products and make it easy for customers to upgrade their systems if they wish. You can start with a system that is right for you today and, upgrading step by step, improve and expand your system to build up to the very best. Because Linn have a commitment to progress through learning, simplification and improvement, they are continually looking for ways to further develop their products, always to the benefit of both new and existing customers.

At Linn manufacturing is an integrated process, from product design, all the way through to after-sales service.

All aspects of Linn’s products are designed in-house. All the key processes, from casting molten metal and machining precision components to manufacturing advanced and complex electronic circuits, are controlled by Linn people. The ability to design a module in the morning and test it in manufacturing in the afternoon enables swift problem resolution. It means new breakthroughs or improvements can be implemented quickly across the product range.

The freedom and independence this creates have enabled Linn to make an astonishing commitment to sound quality. An organisation that puts customers first completes a truly integrated capability.

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Because House of Linn is owned and operated by former Linn staff, we are Europe's Leading Linn Specialist who deliver the customer benefits of Linn's integrated capability better than anyone else. Contact House of Linn to discover how we make music sound real in your home!