Linear SE Headphone Amp

The Linear SE in its topical mk II version satisfies every wish of even the most demanding music lovers. With its exquisite components, elegant housing variations and its thoroughly revised analogue board in Low-Z Copper it sets new standards for your music experience. Allow yourself to be convinced of its outstanding sound quality and impressive design – because great sound never looked better!

Imagine closing your eyes and getting carried away by the sound of your musical treasures: the individual timbres will blend into a fascinating artistic synthesis, causing the music to sound precisely as it was recorded. Our representative headphone amplifier can bring you this unique adventure. It lets you experience the music with all your senses time and again. Everybody will envy you this gem.

Highest quality standards in features and design

For our production we use top-grade components without exception, which we buy from selected manufacturers. Thus our Linear SE mk II is equipped off the shelf with capacitors from Mundorf in the power supply and also in the signal path, an ahp fuse and Mogami cables. Vibration-absorbing SSC feet are another standard feature of the Linear SE mk II.

This reference class headphone amplifier also copes with the highest of aesthetic demands. The housing developed by product designer Guido Gutenstein will impress you with its simple elegance and a noble silk flat aluminium finish. Match different housing and faceplate versions with freely selectable LED colours and black or silver 3S Device Feet, as you desire. That way the Linear SE mk II will become your very personal gem to assort well with your taste and/or existing devices.

Some thousand music lovers in the world are already sold on our Linear headphone amplifier. Even with extremely demanding industrial customers – from the WDR to Sennheiser and Zimmerli – it has become firmly established. HiFi and studio magazine editors use our sound master as reference device. Now the Linear SE mk II is writing a new chapter of this success story.

Input impedance:   47 kohms
Maximum gain:   0 dB, 10 dB, 18 dB, 20 dB selectable via DIP switches
Frequency response:   10 Hz (-0.3 dB) to 35 kHz (-1 dB)
Signal to noise ratio:   > 100 dB at gain 0 dB
THD:   < 0.001 % at 6 mW/300 Ohms
Channel separation:   > 70 dB at 10 kHz
Output power:   400 mW/60 Ohms, 200 mW/300 Ohms
Output impedance:   pre-out 60 Ohms, phones out 5 Ohms
Connectors audio:   Neutrik headphone jacks with gold plated contacts
     1 x pre-out
     2 x phones out
     gold plated RCA sockets with teflon insulation
Power consumption:   10 W
Outer dimensions (W x D x H):   120 mm x 296 mm x 59 mm
Weight:   2.2 kg netto

Digital options    
USB-DAC 384/32
     Prioritization:
     I: USB input
     II: line input analogue
TOSLINK/SPDIF DAC 192/24
     Prioritization:
     I: TOSLINK input
     II: RCA input digital
     III: line input analogue