Exciting news for Linn Sondek LP12 owners!

Linn have just launched a new, reference LP12 power supply – Klimax Radikal. New casework brings it up-to-date aesthetically, consistent with the rest of the beautifully machined Klimax range. Its significant performance gains come from a bespoke Utopik power supply, in an improved chassis with exceptional electrical and mechanical isolation properties.

The Utopik power supply is critical to performance, as it possesses separate, dedicated output voltage rails for each of Radikal’s two specialised tasks: controlling the motor and providing power to Urika internal phono stages.

These output rails are separately self-regulating; any sudden, significant draws in power from the motor or controller don’t affect the rails supplying Urika, and vice versa. The independence of these rails ensures consistency and quality of power supplied to both motor and phono stage, improving the performance of each.

Linn’s engineers have mounted the Utopik power supply inside its own self-contained, machined sarcophagus, nestled behind the product’s front face. The combination of its thick aluminium walls and the relative distance between it and the main Radikal board makes for superior electrical isolation inside the product.

Also critical to the performance of new Klimax Radikal is its enhanced mechanical isolation. Weighing in at nearly 14kg, machined from three pieces of solid aluminium, and mounted on high-mass stainless steel feet with rubber ring inserts, the casework is reassuringly robust in the face of external influences.

There is also the new Keel SE, which is the brand-new super evolution of Linn’s highest-performance LP12 sub-chassis. In 2006, Keel broke new ground with its precision-engineered single-piece design – it’s been intrinsic to the high performance of Klimax LP12 ever since – and now, the bar has been raised once more.

With Keel SE, Linn has comprehensively improved upon the original model using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Thanks to this revolutionary technology, their engineers have evaluated all limitations of previous sub-chassis designs, and broken free from them using a combination of cutting-edge virtual prototyping and Linn’s own enhanced in-house machining capabilities.

The outcome is a new and visibly improved machined sub-chassis with superior stiffness, optimised resonant behaviour, and ideal distribution of mass.

Both of these fantastic upgrades are available for demonstartion here at Cymbiosis. To book yours please call or you can contact Peter here