Linn 328A (c. 2005)

Little is documented about the Linn 328A. What the record shows: it was Linn's flagship active studio monitor, introduced alongside the 318A when the Glasgow, Scotland-based company entered the professional audio market in the mid-2000s. Linn had been building audiophile gear for more than three decades by then, and had launched its own record label in 1981.

Mix-Magazine (August 2005, p.104) covered the pair as a new approach to high-end studio reference and singled out the 328A's radical enclosure, which avoids parallel surfaces entirely. It was a three-way design with twin bass drivers, priced at $16,000 per speaker. Linn's own advertising that spring claimed a stable point source from below 20 Hz to above 30 kHz, driven by five channels of switch-mode amplification.

Beyond those period sources, almost nothing else has surfaced: no full specification sheet, dimensions, or later reviews are in the archive. If you have documentation or hands-on experience with a 328A, the Vintage Technology Archive would like to hear from you.