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This isn’t a loudspeaker that sounds “big for its size”. That would be too easy, and not quite the point. 343 is more intriguing than that. It is technically explicit, visually calm and emotionally immediate. A loudspeaker with performance without imposition and presence without bulk.
The wonder of 343 is how completely it changes what a compact loudspeaker can be: reference performance beautifully encapsulated in a form fit for any home.
343 is the first speaker to be designed around Pistonik from the outset, with the cabinet, down-firing bass architecture, drive unit behaviour and supporting electronics evolving together as a single holistic acoustic system.
Where paired-driver arrangements can create advantages through combination, 343's fundamentally more capable single 8" Pistonik driver delivers those qualities at source, with exceptional linearity, vast excursion and precise control.
Positioned close to the floor, it produces omni-directional bass with the depth and authority to give 343 its remarkable sense of scale, and the precision to preserve its composure.
343 required a cabinet design that could bring reference performance, integrated electronics and neat proportions into a single fully resolved form. Its purpose is acoustic, visual and mechanical...
...and its first act is one of disappearance. The continuous cabinet — free from hard edges — allows sound to leave the loudspeaker more cleanly and consistently, reducing the small diffraction effects that reveal the position of the box in the room.
Reflections arriving from the room retain more of the same spectral character as the direct sound itself, helping the image remain stable, spatially precise and rock-solid across an exceptionally wide listening area.
343 releases the recording into the room as the speaker itself recedes into the space around it.
At the rear of 343, concealed within a curvaceous cowl that completes the flowing form of the cabinet, is the module which contains the loudspeaker electronics. A quiet expression of the same design principle found throughout 343; advanced technology is gathered into a form that remains calm, compact, and complete.
Building on our history of protecting delicate audio signals from interference — in keeping with the principles which underpin Sondek LP12 — the module is mounted using a three-point spring system which isolates the electronics from the cabinet.
This serves as a true isolation system, mechanically decoupling the module from the cabinet to preserve the performance of the system it contains.
The first-ever Linn-designed drive units deliver the widest truly linear excursion of any low-frequency drivers available.
343 is available in two variants.
Exakt Integrated: The most self-sufficient model, with Utopik power supply, Exakt digital crossover, Power DAC architecture, Organik DACs and Adaptive Bias Control amplification housed within its integrated module.
Passive with Active Bass (PWAB): Shares the same Pistonik 6" and 8" drive units, and Utopik and Power DAC for the bass system, with the 343 array comprising upper bass, midrange and tweeter units driven instead by external amplification.
Linn's Power DAC technology combines DAC and amplification into a single stage — extending the digital signal path whilst minimising loss. It's highly efficient, ultra-low-noise, and provides the perfect platform for driving the lower bass system in 343.
When coupled with the prodigious linear excursion of the Linn-designed 8" Pistonik unit it drives, 343 produces bass which feels intrinsic to the recording: clean and assured, lower frequencies arrive with immediacy and texture.
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