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Selekt DSM: Edition Hub

A superior-quality, all-machined design

Exceptionally rigid structure with precision fit and finish
Improved control dial for silky smooth operation
Six programmable extruded-aluminium ‘smart’ buttons
All-glass fascia with crisp, large-format display
Wide range of inputs accepts virtually any source
High-performance MM/MC/Line In Analog Phono Stage
Integrated 1/4” headphone output
Stereo RCA Sub output for bass reinforcement/bass redirect
Stereo RCA Sub output for bass reinforcement/bass redirect

The world’s first, fully customisable and future-proof digital source for hi-fi enthusiasts…

…a high-performance offering unlike anything else on the market.

Edition Hub is a superior-quality enclosure, featuring an all-machined construction for improved rigidity, interior isolation, and elevated aesthetic appeal – with sleek sight lines, concealed joins and understated luxury at the fore.

The Edition Hub chassis consists of four plates, rigidly bolted together. The side pieces are flawlessly aligned with the base using pins, with four long bolts subsequently torqued-in for an exceptionally rigid fix, with a pleasing, precision fit and finish.

Providing both requisite heat management and high design appeal, the primary vent of Edition Hub is precision-cut into its aluminium plate lid. The vent itself is evocative of a wave, with each aperture cut at an angle, and only every second one machined all the way through. When viewed from different angles, this wave motif morphs and ripples – with myriad reflections projected from its various finishes and surfaces.

Edition Hub features a much-improved, eye-catching control dial. Its precision, turned-stainless-steel bearing ensures silky, tactile rotation when adjusting volume; and the photo-etched steel halo around its edge allows cool, sharp light to emanate from the one hundred individual LEDs beneath.

The all-glass fascia of Edition Hub is composed of mirrored spy glass; with the large-format display concealed behind it displaying crisp, clear information when necessary, and fading to total invisibility when not.

A broad range of connections on Edition Hub’s back panel ensures that it can receive, process and expertly deliver audio from any source imaginable; with a high-performance, integrated, analogue-to-digital conversion stage accepting anything from turntables to CD players, and a host of digital connections allowing connection from video streaming devices, games consoles, and Blu-ray players – ensuring you get the best possible sound from anything you connect to your Selekt DSM.

Edition Hub features, as standard, Linn’s all-new, exceptionally efficient, highly responsive, and precision-regulated power supply design – our best yet – Utopik.

Technical Specifications
Configurable, modular, network music player with inputs for separate digital and analogue sources; plus configuration options including (but not limited to) source-only, source + amps, and a variety of Surround Sound applications. Optional upgrade to Katalyst DAC, or peak performance with Organik DAC.

Standardausrüstung

Eingänge

Ausgänge

Surround

Abmessungen

Every Selekt DSM includes:

Support for FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV, DSD (64/128/256), MP3, WMA (except lossless), AIFF, AAC and OGG at up to 24-bit/384kHz resolution

Wireless Streaming via WiFi, Bluetooth and AirPlay 2

MM/MC Phono Stage

Analogue Input (RCA Pair)

Space Optimisation

Exakt Ready

Inputs as Standard
Ethernet	x1
HDMI ARC	x1
Toslink	x2
SPDIF (x1 configurable in/out)	x2
USB Typ-B (Audio Class 2)	x1
Line Level Phono (RCA)	x1
MM Phono (RCA)	x1
MC Phono (RCA)	x1

Outputs as Standard
HDMI 2.0 (optional upgrade)	x1
Exakt Link	x2
SPDIF (configurable in/out)	x1
RCA Subwoofer Out	x1 (nur Edition Hub)
1/4″ Headphone Jack	x1 (nur Edition Hub)

With Surround Sound Upgrade (DSP and HDMI switching modules)
HDMI Input	x4
HDMI Output	x1 (doubles as eARC)
Surround Sound Processing	Up to 7.2
Surround Sound Processing	DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS 96/24, DTS, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital and PCM

Dimensions
Width	355 mm
Height	119 mm
Depth	355 mm
Weight	9,5 kg – 12,3 kg

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Devices upgrades

Enjoy the best possible sound for the lifetime of your product

Find out how you can upgrade your network music player to the latest specification. We offer a range of upgrades for most models. Some of our older products aren’t listed below, but may still be able to be fitted with the latest technology. Get in touch with us to discuss your options.

Network players (Streamer)

Organik DAC Upgrade

Organik is the culmination of over thirty years of digital technology expertise. We pioneered high-performance digital streaming in the hi-fi industry; and we’re raising the bar yet again, thanks to this paradigm shift in digital-to-analog conversion technology.

Available for:
Klimax DSM (all variants)
Klimax 350 Integrated Loudspeakers
Klimax DS (all variants)
Klimax Exaktbox
Selekt DSM (Stereo or Dual-Mono)

Add HDMI 2.0 compatibility

Compatibility with HDMI 2.0 was added in September 2016*, handling UHD (4K) and HDR video pass-through for compatibility with ultra-high definition video sources and displays.
We can perform this upgrade on site.

Available for:
Klimax DSM
System Hub
Akurate DSM
Akurate System Hub
Selekt DSM
Majik DSM

Add Surround Sound Processing capability (up to 7.1 channels)

A simple, high performance one-box 5.1 Surround solution can be achieved by upgrading Selekt DSM to Selekt DSM Surround with Integrated Power Amps – just add speakers.

Available for:
Klimax DSM
Klimax System Hub
Akurate DSM
Akurate System Hub
Selekt DSM

Dynamik Netzteil

Dynamik has greater mains noise isolation, more power and faster response, clearly outperforming bulky and noisy conventional power supplies.

Available for:
Klimax DSM (pre-2009 models)
Akurate DS (pre-2009 models)
Majik DS (pre-2009 models)

Utopik Power

This exceptionally efficient, highly responsive, and precision-regulated power supply design is our first entirely new topology since 2009 – and it’s our best yet.

Soon Available!

Turntable

Radikal

Upgrades for the Klimax Radikal & Akurate Radikal are available at Hifi-Studio Achterholt.

Can’t find what you’re looking for?

Music Tips

John Zorn – “A Dreamers Christmas” (Winter Wonderland)

Al Di Meola – “All your Life : a Tribute to the Beatles” (In my Life)

J.S.Bach – “Weihnachtsoratorium Jordi Savall”

The Puppini Sisters – “Christmas At Home with the Puppini Sisters” (Puttin on the Ritz)

Bill Evans Trio – “Sunday At The Village Vanguard” (All of you)

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DIE GROSSEN ERFOLGE (Fritz Wunderlich)

Fritz Wunderlich – Die unvergessene Stimme

My favourites:

Komm in die Gondel
Allein wieder allein (Wolgalied)
Ach wie so herrlich zuschauen
*** Actually, they are all good! ***

Cleaning the pick-up needle and thus the record

One of the best ways to clean a record is to play the record and then clean the needle. The needle of a good pick-up goes deep into the groove and thus removes even the deepest dirt from the groove.

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Trio Jeepy (Branford Marsalis)

with Branford Marsalis (Tenorsaxophon, Sopransaxophon), Milt Hinton & Delbert Felix (Bass) and Jeff Tain Watts (Drums).

My favourites:

The nearness of you
Gutbucket sleepy
Makin whopee (Reprise)

Soundtracks

Alan Silvestri – “I’m Forrest… Forrest Gump” (Forrest Gump)

Stanley Kubrick – “Also sprach Zarathustra” ( 2001 A Space Odyssey)

Eric Weisberg – “Dueling Banjos” (Deliverance)

Pink Floyd – “Mother & Outside the Wall” (The Wall)

John Barry – “The loss of the Journal & Farewell / End” (Der mit dem Wolf tanzt)

Ennio Morricone – “Once upon a time in the West” (Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod)

Bruce Springsteen – “Secret Garden” (Jerry Maguire)

Florian Ostertag – “Season of Monsoon” – (About a Girl)

Bruce Springsteen – “Streets of Philadelphia” (Philadelphia)

Pat Metheny – “Capture” (The Falcon and the Snowman)

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MARTHA (Flotow)

with Fritz Wunderlich (Tenor), Anneliese Rothenberger (Sopran), Gottlob Frick (Bass) and Hetty Plümacher (Alt). Berliner Symphoniker (Klobucar) and the Chor from the Deutschen Oper Berlin (Lüddecke)