Lina DAC

The Lina Network DAC is both a continuation and a new beginning. Its design combines renowned dCS technologies with innovations developed for headphone listeners – resulting in a bold new interpretation of the dCS experience, and a complete reimagining of form and function.

With the Lina Network Streaming DAC, we’ve taken our core playback technologies, including the dCS Ring DAC™ and Digital Processing Platform, and added innovations developed for headphone listeners. These include our first-ever touch-screen display, a streamlined user interface for easier navigation, and a powerful flex-rigid circuit board, which allows us to deliver all of the features you’d expect from a dCS DAC in a much smaller chassis.

The result is a powerful, supremely capable product designed for use in a wide range of environments, from living rooms to studios and workspaces. With its wide dynamic range, crisp, clear playback, expansive soundstage, and tonal neutrality, it provides a deeply natural, highly detailed, and profoundly musical sound that encapsulates our singular approach to audio.

Add unique headphone optimisation technology, an elegant and tactile design, and a high-performance streaming platform, and you have a hugely versatile source that delivers spectacular sound, however, you choose to listen. Designed to inspire, inform and entertain, it will give you a whole new perspective on the artists and recordings you love.

Effortless listening

While the Lina Network DAC offers a vast range of features, it is designed with simplicity, convenience and ease of use in mind. Its streamlined user interface allows you to easily navigate system settings, select music and manage your playback experience, while the dCS Mosaic app offers an intuitive and painless way to browse and access music from multiple sources and audio libraries. With a choice of inputs and outputs and user-selectable filters, it allows you to seamlessly enjoy audio from any source, in any format, without compromise

Unlimited potential

The Lina Network DAC’s performance is driven by a completely flexible control board – the dCS Digital Processing Platform. This powerful, robust and highly intelligent system operates on code written by dCS engineers, and it can be endlessly updated to deliver any number of new features and enhancements. This means we can continue upgrading Lina’s performance over time and ensure that each system delivers a state-of-the-art experience long after it’s purchased.

Scrupulous design

Crafted from billet Aluminium (a material selected for its excellent acoustic properties), the Lina Network DAC has been meticulously designed to deliver the finest possible sound, with the lowest possible levels of distortion and noise. Each aspect of its design – from its billet Aluminium casework to its internal fixings and components, and proprietary hardware and software – is carefully engineered and exhaustively tested to ensure it provides the best possible experience and the highest levels of quality and reliability. This holistic approach and obsessive attention to detail are one of the reasons that dCS DACs sound so sublime.