Linn first ever in-house designed units feature a unique Pistonik motor system at their core. With it, these drivers achieve ultimate linearity across a prodigious excursion range, with dramatically lower distortion and greater accuracy than anything available elsewhere.
Major innovations throughout Pistonik’s design engineer out all magnetic, mechanical, and thermal factors which together conspire to defeat linearity. When integrated into Linn loudspeaker systems, awesome volumes of air are moved with absolute control and the widest truly linear excursion of any low-frequency drive units, ever.
Advanced multi-physics simulation informed the design of an ideal partner to mirror Pistonik; a finely tuned, bespoke suspension that stiffens rapidly and predictably at the last possible moment, remaining under complete control with impeccable linearity right up to maximum excursion - the extreme suspension system pushing performance right to the edge, safely.
The drive units are designed with a hard aluminium diaphragm. Aluminium is strong and rigid, allowing us to banish break-up behaviour to well above their operating frequency ranges. It is also light, keeping the moving mass of the drive unit down, and thereby improving overall efficiency.
Carefully optimised coupling of the diaphragm to both the surround and Pistonik motor system pushes resonance frequencies even higher, and lowers their magnitude.
Linn's groundbreaking, proprietary Exakt technology takes precision even further. Each individual drive unit is laser-measured at the Linn factory to determine its unique characteristics. This data is stored against its serial number and used to generate a tailor-made Exakt profile for that specific drive unit.
Once installed, the system retrieves this data before calculating and applying a correction filter to all drive units in the speaker – accurate to within 0.0625dB of the reference. In all practicality, every customer then has the reference speaker in their home – performing exactly as designed.
With Linn's proprietary Exakt technology, every individual drive unit performs precisely as designed. Light, rigid aluminium diaphragms with optimised coupling banish resonances far beyond what you’ll ever hear. An advanced suspension system, designed to mirror the motor’s linearity, allows motion to be pushed to extremes yet remain closely controlled.
At the core, Linn's unique Pistonik motor system delivers flawless linear force across its prodigious excursion range. Immune to magnetic, mechanical, and thermal factors, every element works together in service of ultimate linearity.
These 6” upper bass and 8” woofer units redefine the state of the art – delivering deeper, cleaner, more controlled bass, with total accuracy, and the widest truly linear excursion of any low-frequency drive units, ever.
Read more about the Klimax 360 speakers here.
On Wednesday 13th May 2026, with Linn we will launch the brand new 360 speaker at Windsor Audio - Limited tickets are now available via our Events page here.
