bigboss said:
Aren't AVI gang already claiming that the same tech is used in their speakers?
My understanding, based on the presentation by Linn's Technical Director at their 40th Aniiversary Celebrations, is that the differences between the AVI ADM 9's and 40's and the Linn Exakt system are that:
any analogue signals - eg from an Urika equipped LP12 - are converted to digital.
The active crossovers are digital
Digital equalisation is applied to the signal to counter room effects and speaker driver and port manufacturing tolerance effects
Digital phase correction is applied to the signal to take into account phase differences from the position of the various drivers relative to a given listening position
There are multiple DACs for each speaker. One for each driver. The DACs are placed after the active crossover and signal processing and just before the power amps.
The Linn Exakt system is software upgradeable. Also if the user changed his room or speakers or a speaker driver the system to could be reconfigured accordingly
In summary the Exakt system offers digital signal processing combined with digital active crossovers.