Linn Majik DSM 2025
In its new form, Majik DSM raises the bar in its category, both in build- and sound-quality. Developed by the same team, and made by the same technicians and machinery as their most recent flagship products, Majik DSM is an accessible and essential distillation of the best Linn can offer. With its stylish design, improved build quality, unmatched usability — and by outperforming all competitors in an increasingly wide field — Majik DSM is the most entrancing proposition for those new to the world of genuine high-performance home audio. It’s one serious piece of kit: industry-leading DS streamer, pre-amplifier, DAC, and power amplifier—with all the connectivity youll ever need—all in one.
A robust chassis formed of precision-punched and -folded aluminium lends Majik DSM superb rigidity and isolation for its internal components. The resultant performance improvement this provides is bolstered by three solid steel feet on rubber pads, which serve to further reduce unwanted vibration throughout the product. The Majik DSM DAC features Linns in-house-designed precision clocking and upsampling. Uprated integrated amplification, derived from the Selekt DSM power amp cartridge, introduces a post-filter feedback loop for the first time in Majik DSM. This reduces noise and distortion dramatically, and improves efficiency.
Majik DSM is built differently; it sounds, looks, and feels better than its competitors. Superior build and precision-engineering are evident throughout. The stylish and subtly curvaceous black outer sleeve is formed from a single piece of 2mm-thick aluminium sheet. It’s punched, cut, and precisely folded to exceedingly high tolerances before being sprayed with a powder paint coat, cured to a satin-like sheen and finished with a crisp, UV-printed Linn logo. All inhouse. The sleeve transitions pleasingly to an optical-grade acrylic fascia, which floats at the front of Majik DSM. This in turn houses a sharp, monochrome TFT display which illuminates unobtrusively to inform the listener of track information before fading back to invisibility after a few moments. Majik DSM’s clean frontal aspect is crowned by a cutglass, rotary control dial – a beautiful and practical feature now synonymous with Linn’s contemporary crop of network music players.
Connect analogue sources to one of Majik DSM’s dedicated MM, MC, or either pair of line level inputs; connect a TV and experience video sources over high-bandwidth eARC; connect headphones, a subwoofer, or a computer-hosted music library—and it has Exakt Link for future-proofing. Whatever you connect to Majik DSM, it just works – and beautifully. Majik DSM features, as standard, Linn’s unique room correction software – Space Optimisation. This powerful tool means youre guaranteed the best performance possible, no matter the size, shape, or construction of your listening room.
