Simon Lucas visited Linn’s headquarters outside Glasgow in order to find out if the words ‘compact’ and ‘reference’ really apply. He spent some time with two senior members of Linn’s design team and learned about the extraordinary lengths the company has gone to in order to create a pair of speakers that include every one of its most impressive technologies. He also learned that ‘single malt’ is a colour, and that £65000 can sometimes be an absolutely fair asking price for a pair of compact loudspeakers…
