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For out of town visitors to House of Linn, make a weekend of it in Manchester - audition and buy Linn Systems at House of Linn at leisure - enjoy a stay in a top Manchester hotel and experience the great city of Manchester.

Ask Brian or Trevor for full details and take the journey.

We opimtimise the performance of Linn Turntables.

Make your appointment at a House of Linn LP12 upgrade clinic.

Contact us if your LP12 requires service or upgrade to make an appointment for any Saturday or other time to suit you.

Every LP12 variant on demonstration.

We accept most major credit and debit cards and also offer the following "Play Now Pay Later" options:

1. Interest Free.

Minimum transaction of £250.

Deposit to be a minimum of 25% of the total purchase amount.

Balance to be paid in 18 monthly installments commencing one month after delivery.

Cannot be used in conjunction with any other House Of Linn Promotions.

2. Buy Now Pay Later.

Minimum transaction of £250.

No deposit required.

12 month payment free term.

Settle the full outstanding balance anytime before the 12 month term ends and only pay an additional charge of £29 settlement fee

OR Pay the full outstanding balance over the following 48 months @ 29.8% APR

Cannot be used in conjunction with any other House Of Linn Promotions.

House of Linn Ltd is a licensed credit broker authorised by the Office Of Fair Trading to offer consumer credit.

Terms and Conditions apply.

Consumer Credit Licence Number 636801

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

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We are pleased to offer the following complete Linn DS solutions and savings.

House of Linn KLIMAX DS Package includes Free:

Dedicated RIPNAS

300 of your favourite CDs ripped

House of Linn AKURATE DS Package includes Free:

Dedicated QNAP NAS

200 of your favourite CDs ripped

House of Linn MAJIK DS Package includes Free:

USB drive

150 of your favourite CDs ripped

House of Linn Majik DSi Package includes Free:

USB drive

150 of your favourite CDs ripped

Contact us to arrange a demonstration or for more information.

Free hard drive offer as stated above is not available with Linn DS players purchased with House of Linn finance options.

"Rips for free" as stated above remain available with House of Linn financed DS purchases.

Meet a Linn Engineer at House of Linn's Aktiv Weekend, August 14-15 2010. House of Linn demonstrate the range of Linn Aktiv and Linn Passive systems by appointment throughout the year so you can always hear the Aktiv difference at a time to suit you. We are pleased to have a Linn engineer with us for this special weekend and this will be the last opportunity to take advantage of Linn's "Love Your Linn" summer promotion:

Purchasing a new product from the Klimax, Akurate or Majik product ranges before August 17th entitles you to choose either a Dynamik power supply OR a set of Chakra Aktiv cards free of charge. Lavish some love on your Linn Hi-Fi this Summer and prepare to fall in love with your music collection all over again with Linn’s most flexible promotion ever.

Invest in any new Linn product from the Klimax, Akurate or Majik ranges* and instantly transform the performance of your system with the choice of either:

Going Aktiv: pioneered by Linn, enjoyed by customers for over 35 years and available as an upgrade for all Linn loudspeakers.

Linn Dynamik: Linn's latest and most advanced power supply upgrade ever.Dynamik will dramatically improve your listening experience by powering your product more effectively so you hear even more of what matters - the music. Upgrading to Dynamik is the single most effective way to improve the performance of your Linn component.

Why should I go Aktiv?

Going Aktiv is a simple and cost effective way to maximise the performance of your playback system. The performance improvement is so great that it is arguably more significant than upgrading to higher performance loudspeakers in passive configuration.

Almost all Linn loudspeakers can be driven actively with a simple upgrade, whereas the majority of loudspeakers from other manufacturers are passive and where most of the power received by the loudspeaker crossover is wasted and dissipated as heat, and not energy and maximum control of each active drive unit.

Each drive unit is driven directly

When you go Aktiv each individual drive unit in the loudspeaker is powered by its own power amplifier through a mains-powered electronic Aktiv crossover. This ensures that the drive unit gets exactly the information it is meant to have, so the entire audio spectrum is covered, efficiently, seamlessly and accurately with minimum noise and distortion. This improved reproduction makes for a much more musical and therefore enjoyable experience.

In a passive system, a single amplifier powers all of the drive units in the loudspeaker and a passive crossover filter circuit divides the full range music signal into high and low frequencies, e.g. bass, mid and treble frequencies. The limitations to this type of crossover causes interference between the signal and drive units which can absorb, distort or colour the original signal, so the quality of reproduction is lower as a result, and your enjoyment is lessened.

Minimise Cabling Joints and Connectors For Better Sound

In Linn Aktiv systems the amplifiers and the speakers can be mixed and matched and upgraded independently. The Aktiv crossover modules can be integrated within the amplifier, so installation is neater and cabling joints and connectors are minimised. This delivers improved performance as all additional connections have the potential to detract from overall system accuracy and performance.

Simple to install

Linn Aktiv cards can be quickly and easily installed by House of Linn.

All Linn amplifiers contain advanced circuitry which can automatically sense the presence of Linn Aktiv crossover circuits.

Audition the latest product range at House of Linn and hear the difference these upgrades will make to your system.

*Terms and conditions for the 2010 Love Your Linn Hi-fi Promotion:

The Klimax, Akurate and Majik products included in this offer are as follows:

Linn Klimax DS player

Linn Klimax Kontrol pre-amplifier

Linn Klimax Solo power amplifier

Linn Klimax Twin power amplifier

Linn Klimax Tunebox Aktiv crossover

Linn Klimax 350A loudspeakers

Linn Klimax 350 loudspeakers

Linn Klimax 320A loudspeakers

Linn Klimax 340A loudspeakers

Linn Klimax 345 loudspeakers

Linn Akurate DS player

Linn Akurate Tuner

Linn Akurate Kontrol pre-amplifier

Linn Akurate 2200 power amplifier

Linn Akurate 3200 power amplifier

Linn Akurate 4200 power amplifier

Linn Akurate 242 loudspeakers

Linn Akurate 212 loudspeakers

Linn Akurate 225 loudspeakers

Linn Akurate 226 loudspeakers

Linn Majik DS player

Linn Majik DS-I player

Linn Majik-I integrated amplifier

Linn Majik 2100 power amplifier

Linn Majik 3100 power amplifier

Linn Majik 4100 power amplifier

Linn Majik 5100 power amplifier

Linn Majik 6100 power amplifier

Linn Majik 140 loudspeakers

Linn Majik 109 loudspeakers

Linn Majik 112 loudspeakers

Linn Majik 126 loudspeakers

The ‘Love Your Linn HiFi’ Promotion runs from Thursday 17th June 2010 to Tuesday 17th August 2010 inclusive. Only orders placed within these dates will be eligible for the promotion.

Purchasing a new product from the Klimax, Akurate or Majik product ranges entitles you to choose either a Dynamik power supply OR a set of Chakra Aktiv cards free of charge, see below for full details.

This offer is limited to one upgrade option per product purchased.

Linn Dynamik option:

The free Dynamik Power Supply upgrade is available for the following products:

Linn Klimax DS, Linn Akurate DS, Linn Majik DS

Linn Akurate CD, Linn Unidisk 1.1 / 2.1 / SC

Linn Akurate 4200/3200/2200 power amplifiers

Linn Klimax Kontrol, Linn Akurate Kontrol, Linn Exotik (+DA version only)

Linn Majik 6100 / 5100 / 4100 / 3100 / 2100 power amplifiers

Linn Chakra C2100 / C3100 / C4100 / C5100 / C6100 / C2200 / C3200 / C4200 power amplifiers

Linn Majik I (launched 2008)

Linn 5125 & 2250 power amplifiers

Linn Classik Movie (launched 2005)

Linn Classik Music (launched 2008)

The Linn Dynamik Power Supply upgrade module for Linn Klimax loudspeakers is not included in this offer.

All Linn Dynamik upgrades automatically come with a 2 years’ parts warranty, covering the power supply only, commencing on the date of installation.

For purchases made during the promotion period, and upon receipt of the product serial number, products upgraded free of charge also qualify for a 2 years’ parts warranty extension, covering the full product, in addition to the product’s remaining warranty period, commencing on the date of installation.

All disc players are excluded from the full product warranty extension, specifically:

Linn Akurate CD

Linn Unidisk 1.1 / 2.1 / SC

Linn Classik Music

Linn Classik Movie

Linn Aktiv option:

Only the required number of Linn Aktiv cards to allow upgrade a maximum of one pair of speakers, per product purchased, to Linn Aktiv operation will be included in this offer.

Products not included in this offer are as follows:

Linn Majik LP12 turntable

Linn Sondek LP12 turntable

All Linn LP12 upgrades

All Linn turntable products including Linn power supplies, Linn phono stages, Linn tonearms and Linn cartridges.

Linn Sneaky Music DS

Linn Unidisk 1.1

Linn Unidisk SC

Linn Kisto

Linn Kinos

All Linn Komponent loudspeakers

All Linn Sekrit range products

All Linn Knekt products

All Linn accessories

All Linn spares

This promotion is being run by Linn Products Ltd ("Linn"), Glasgow Road, Waterfoot, Eaglesham, Glasgow, G76 0EQ, UK. Registered Company Number: 52366

House of Linn offer hard drive storage and more with every Linn Klimax DS, Linn Akurate DS, Linn Majik DS purchased from House of Linn. We install nationwide. Please contact us for further details.

In addition, Radio DS has arrived. This new functionality evolves a Linn DS player into a high performance internet radio with thousands of local, national and global internet radio stations available at the touch of a button.

Radio DS makes internet radio as easy as FM, with a mind-boggling choice of stations and the ability to assign up to 100 presets. This exciting new feature for DS players will not only introduce you to new music, talk and sport, it will ensure favourites such as BBC Radio, Classic FM and Sky Radio are still at your fingertips.

Also - tune in to Linn’s new internet radio stations on your Linn DS for the finest listening experience. Linn Radio, Linn Jazz and Linn Classical stream uninterrupted music, 24 hours a day at the highest quality available online - 320kbps mp3, offering the opportunity to explore the wide variety of labels, artists and genres available from Linn Records.

This exciting new function is available now on all DS players. Many House of Linn customers already enjoy Radio DS and are delighted with the difference it’s made to their player.

Linn has partnered with RadioTime go to radiotime website to bring you the largest selection of radio stations worldwide.

Uphorik represents a powerful breakthrough in standalone phono stage design. Offering separate dedicated inputs and circuits for MM (Moving Magnet) and MC (Moving Coil) cartridges, Uphorik delivers optimal audio performance for every turntable configuration.

Customise load and gain settings for your cartridge to ensure you're getting the very best in audio performance. Adjustment switches are located externally for quick and easy access, and are positioned as close to the input stage as possible to shorten the signal path and minimise noise pickup. House of Linn can hard-solder these switches in order to bypass the contacts for optimal performance.

Incorporating technology first developed for Urika (Linn's reference internal phono stage), Uphorik features dual mono channel separation with dedicated left and right circuits and internal shielding, which minimises potential crosstalk to deliver clean, pure sound.

Choose between balanced or unbalanced (single-ended) outputs, and single-ended (RCA) or XLR for input. For best performance, a new XLR T-Kable with superior shielding properties will be available separately. Uphorik also features Linn's latest Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) technology to minimise noise levels and optimise audio performance.

Uphorik unites four decades of development, expertise and dedication to analogue playback with Linn's very latest advances in turntable and amplification technology to produce a truly universal phono stage.

Audition Linn's best ever stand-alone phono stage at House of Linn.

High performance and flexibility ensures that Uphorik perfectly matches your system requirements both now and in the future.

We are grateful to Jim Merod for making his superb recordings available for download from the House of Linn website. Jim is an exceptionally versatile character and friend.

In addition to his work as an extraordinary recording engineer for some of the greatest names in Jazz (see below), Jim has written about music, recording, audio gear, and the jazz scene for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union, Jazz News, the Jazz Link, Jazz Now, and other publications.

Jim also consults for several media and audiophile projects in the US and Europe as well as an audio equipment reviewer for POSITIVE FEEDBACK online magazine. He teaches literature and humanities alongside his annual seminar in jazz studies at Soka University of America in Orange County. Throughout the ‘90s, Jim was a member of the Board of directors at the Napa Valley Jazz Festival and played a vital role in establishing Elario’s Jazz Club, in La Jolla, California, as one of the premier jazz venues on the west coast and is a frequent visitor to the Monterey Jazz Festival - see image (left) of Jim with Clint Eastwood at Monterey.

Jim has taught critical theory and literature at Brown, Brandeis, Cornell, Stanford and UCLA. He founded and directed Cornell's Freshman Summer College and coordinated the Ivy League Writing Consortium. He has been a Fellow at the University of California, and the University of Hawaii, and Cornell. Author of a book on critical theory (Cornell Univ. Press) and another on "Jazz as a Cultural Archive" (Duke Univ. Press), Jim has lectured at Williams, Notre Dame, Reed, Marquette, Emory, University of Pittsburgh, and several campuses of the University of California. Jim is the recipient of the Harvard Book Award, the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, a National Science Foundation grant for elementary particle research, and was recognized at Brandeis with the Michael Walzer Award for outstanding teaching. He has twice been honored as “professor of the year” at Soka University.

Jim has worked with jazz education and educators throughout his career, assisting in the production of the "Club Date" jazz series for PBS-TV and with the "Adventures in Jazzland" Project in Marin County. He is collaborating with Benny Golson in the making of the legendary saxophonist-composer's autobiography, WHISPER NOT, and has collaborated with composer/arranger/trombonist/ screen writer Tom McIntosh in crafting a film epic that explores jazz history from an “inside” point of view.

Jim's "Straight Ahead Jazz" radio show on KiFm in San Diego featured interviews with legendary musicians such as Marshal Royal, Snookie Young, Scott Hamilton, Joe Wilder, Bob Cooper, Pharoah Sanders, Frank Strazzeri, Monty Budwig and Andy Simpkins. He continues to be a consultant for numerous academic and professional organizations. In 2007, he collaborated in recording an award winning television project that featured pianist Mike Garson.

For more than thirty years, Jim has been an on-location recording engineer. In the early '90s he founded BluePort Sound recording studio and BluePort Jazz, a record label that has twenty published albums. During his career Jim has recorded a "who's who" of legendary jazz, blues, and Latin musicians: Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, John Hicks, Sarah Vaughan, Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Joe Lovano, Cassandra Wilson, Eddie Palmieri, Jimmy Rowles, Lee Konitz, Hank Jones, Benny Golson, Kenny Barron, Charlie Haden, Nick Brignola, Tommy Flanagan, Stan Getz, Tom Harrell, Harold Land, Cecil Payne, Roger Kellaway, Chris Potter, Ben Monder, Mary Stallings, Alan Broadbent, Art Blakey, Bill Perkins, Count Basie, Cedar Walton, Dave McKenna, Tierney Sutton, Pete Jolly, Kenny Werner, Jackie Ryan, Joe Pass, Bob Florence, Gary Foster, Buddy Collette, Gatemouth Brown, Clifford Jordan, Joe Wilder, Janis Siegal, Buster Williams, Barry Harris, Ben Riley, Snookie Young, Barbara Morrison, Eric Reed, Joe Labarbera, Art Farmer, Conte Candoli, Mundell Lowe, Kenny Burrell, Gene Bertoncini, Grant Stewart, Larry Koonse, Laurindo Almeida, Joe Diorio, Scott Hamilton, Ron Eschete, Ray Drummond....

....Jaime Valle, Paula West, Cleanhead Vinson, Joe Henderson, Sweets Edison, Red Rodney, Geoffrey Keezer, Louis Bellson, Bennie Maupin, Andy Bey, Bud Shank, Tardo Hammer, Betty Buckley, Don Menza, John Patitucci, Phil Woods, Shorty Rogers, Maureen Budway, Rick Helzer, Billy Mintz, Ruben Estrada, Roberta Piket, Ray Brown, Alex Acuna, Pete Christlieb, Los Lobos, Roy McCurdy, Billy Higgins, Christian McBride, Leon Parker, Gerald Wiggins, Charles McPherson, Herb Geller, Mulgrew Miller, Monty Budwig, James Williams, the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Orchestra, Paula West, Jon Mayer, Donny McCaslin, Ozomatli, Larry Fuller, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Akira Tana, Ignacio Berroa, Bill Mays, Martin Taylor, Gerald Clayton, Slide Hampton, Spike Robinson, Frank Strazzeri, Bob Magnusson, Johnny Coles, Larry Willis, Tigran Hamasyan, Lucianna Souza, Steve White, Claudio Roditi, David Sanchez, Brian Lynch, Ramon Banda, the Phil Norman Tentet, Darek Oles, Larry Vuckovich, Lenny White, Chuck Berghoffer, Nestor Torres, Putter Smith, Donald Bailey, Curtis Lundy, Luther Hughes, Cecil Taylor, Claudia Villela...

...Buster Williams, Pee Wee Claybrook, Chuck Travis, Cliff Almond, Vince Lateano, Joanne Brackeen, Eddie Duran, Omar Clay, Claude Williamson, Steve Turre, David Williams, Donald Brown, Gary Bartz, Josh Nelson, Stephanie Haynes, John Proulx, Ricky Woodard, Larance Marable, Dorothy Donegan, Buck Hill, Hank Crawford, Dave Pike, Chris Howes, Zane Musa, Ratso Harris, Dave Carpenter, Bill Cunliffe, Jimmy Cleveland, Peter Sprague, Roland Hanna, Dave MacKay, Rick Margitza, Mark Ferber, Alan Dawson, Santi Debriano, Kenwood Dennard, Jeff Littleton, Jeff Chambers, Mel Martin, Hal Galper, Lori Bell, Rob Thorsen, Jimmy Madison, Larry Gales, Tamir Handleman, Gino D’Auri, Merrill Hoover, John Handy, Wayne Wallace, Duncan Moore, Gilbert Castellanos, Sweetie Mitchell, Havana Carbo, Verrnon Alley, Horace Tapscott, John Campbell, Hollis Gentry, Edmund Velasco, Sherman Fergusson, Gunnar Biggs, Bobby Gordon, Matt Zebley, Russell Blake, Tareon Gully, Julie Kelly, Sean Smith, Mikon Zlatkovich, Mike Wofford, Ron Whitlock, Greg Abate, Tom Warrington, Larry Nash, Henry Butler, Cecilia Coleman, Pamela York, John Wiitala, Tim Pleasants, Fritz Wise, Dean Taba, Frank Kimbrough, Robin Adler, Allan Phillips, Greg Douglass, Kendal Kay, Butch Lacey, Bruce Babad, Jose Serrano, Rob Schneiderman, Craig Handy, III, Gary Lefebvre, Tony Ortega, Tripp Sprague, Steve Situm, John Guerin, Daniel Jackson, Jeannie Cheatham, Michael Moore, Harold Jones, Lucrecia, TOLU, and others.

Jim received his undergraduate degree at Princeton and did his graduate work at Stanford, where he earned his doctorate in English & American Literature as well as the Special Program in Humanities. He studied with William Arrowsmith and Harold Bloom at the Breadloaf School, Middlebury College, and recently completed a novel, "Einstein at Princeton." Jim endorses DPA microphones and Ultrasone headphones.

Click here for the Blueport Jazz website

From 7th January until 23rd February 2010, receive a special Studio Master music package worth up to £2,300 with a Linn Klimax DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS or Majik DSi purchased from House of Linn.

This fantastic offer makes it easy to start enjoying the highest quality music and quickly discover why Studio Master recordings captivate music lovers everywhere.

This unbeatable combination delivers the best audio experience possible with a ready to play Studio Master collection pre-loaded onto a free Hard-Drive.

Now firmly established as the future of music, Linn DS revitalizes existing CD collections. Enjoy even more music from CD, plus new, intuitive control options to browse entire music collections in exciting new ways.

Create the perfect playlist and soundtrack for any event and enjoy rediscovering hidden musical gems previously buried in your CD rack.

We explain, demonstrate and install the range of Linn DS players for you to appreciate how easy it is to have better sound and more music from your CD collection with a Linn DS player from House Of Linn.

Contact Brian or Trevor for further information and to book an appointment for a personal Linn DS audition at House of Linn.