dCS Lina Network Streamer/DAC

The heart of your dCS Lina system, our powerful network streaming DAC delivers extraordinary sound from any digital source

• Compatible with all digital audio formats
• Supports hi-res streaming from Roon, TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, Deezer, AirPlay & more
• Features our renowned dCS Ring DAC ^TM and Digital Processing Platform

• dCS Ring DAC™ system and Digital Processing Platform ensure audio is reproduced with absolute integrity, for a highly detailed, musical and deeply natural sound

• dCS Mosaic platform supports hi-res streaming via Roon, Spotify, Deezer, Qobuz, TIDAL, Internet Radio and Apple AirPlay

• Patented dCS Expanse technology offers enhanced headphone optimisation, for a more natural and immersive experience when listening to a wide range of stereo recordings

• Touch screen UI with customisable menu allows listeners to easily control playback and adjust system settings

• Flexible firmware provides unlimited scope for future upgrades, with new features and enhancements delivered via simple software updates

• All-new electronic and mechanical design delivers a vast range of features in a compact and elegant format, while digital volume control function removes need for separate pre-amp

  About the Lina DAC

  The Lina Network Streaming DAC is both a continuation and a new beginning. Its design combines renowned dCS technologies and all of the benefits listeners have come to expect from a dCS DAC with a wealth of new innovations, including an all-new mechanical design, plus new technologies developed specifically for headphone listening. It is a complete reimagining of form and function, created with the same relentless focus and ambition as our world-renowned Bartók, Rossini and Vivaldi DACs.

  The DAC utilises proprietary dCS playback technologies, including the famous dCS Ring DAC™ and our endlessly flexible Digital Processing Platform, to deliver a deeply natural, highly detailed, and profoundly musical sound. With its wide dynamic range, crisp, clear playback, expansive soundstage, and tonal neutrality, it delivers a highly revealing and compelling performance that uncovers the true depth and essence of a recording.

  Its powerful flex-rigid circuit board enables us to deliver a huge range of features in a compact chassis (our smallest yet). The result is a supremely capable product that caters to a wide range of settings, including rooms where space is at a premium.

  Add unique headphone optimisation technology, a high-performance streaming platform, and digital volume control enabling use in systems without a preamp, and you have a hugely versatile source that delivers a spectacular performance in a vast range of setups. Designed to inspire, inform and entertain, it will give you a whole new perspective on the artists and recordings you love.

  Specifications

  • Product Dimensions / Weight

    121.5mm (H) x 220mm (W) x 339mm (D) 7.4kg

  • Upsampling

    • 1 stereo balanced pair on 2x 3-pin male XLR connectors (pin 2 = hot, pin 3 = cold). These outputs are electronically balanced and floating, the signal balance ratio at 1 kHz is better than 40dB. Output impedance is 3Ω , maximum load is 600Ω (a 10kΩ - 100kΩ load is recommended)

    • 1 stereo unbalanced pair on 2x RCA Phono connectors. Output impedance is 52Ω, maximum load is 600Ω (a 10kΩ - 100kΩ load is recommended)

    • Output levels are 0.2V, 0.6V, 2V, or 6V rms for a full-scale input, set in the menu.

  • L-R Crosstalk

    Better than –115dB0, 20Hz-20kHz

  • Streaming Compatibility

    Supports the following platforms and services:

    • UPnP
    • Qobuz
    • Deezer
    • Tidal
    • Internet Radio
    • Spotify
    • Apple AirPlay 2 (support at 44.1 or 48kS/s)
    • RoonReady

  • Upsampling

    Multi-stage DXD oversampling with switchable DSD Upsampling (1-bit 2.822 or 3.07MS/s) and DSDx2 Upsampling (1-bit 5.644 or 6.14MS/s).

  • Digital Inputs

    • 2 x AES/EBU on 3 pin XLR 44.1-384kS/s

    • 1 x S/PDIF BNC Coax 44.1-192kS/s

    • 1 x S/PDIF on RCA 44.1-192kS/s

    • 1 x Toslink 44.1-96kS/s

    • 1 x USB Type B 44.1-384kS/s, PCM and DSD, DSDx2 in Async Mode

    • 1 x USB Type A connector for mass storage devices (navigated using Mosaic)
    

  • Frequency Response (set to filter 1)

    • Fs = 44.1 or 48kS/s +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz
    • Fs = 88.2 or 96kS/s +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz -3dB @ >38kHz
    • Fs = 176.4 or 192kS/s +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz -3dB @ >67kHz
    • Fs = 352.8 or 384kS/s +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz -3dB @ >100kHz
    • DSD64 +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz -3dB @ >90kHz
    • DSD128 +/-0.1dB, 10Hz-20kHz -3dB @ >100kHz

  • Residual Noise (6v output setting)

    • 16-bit data: Better than –96dB0, 20Hz-20kHz unweighted
    • 24-bit data: Better than –113dB0, 20Hz-20kHz unweighted

  • Sample frequencies and formats

    Supports the following audio formats
    and sample rates:
    

    • 44.1-384kS/s up to 24 bits
    • DSD/64, DSD/128
    • Native DSD + DoP (input dependent)
    • FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MQA

  • Power Requirements

    90-127V / 220-240V, 50/60Hz

    Power consumption: 30W