Introducing Lina DAC X: The new network music player from dCS

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hi-fi+ Staff
May 09, 2025

9 May 2025: Lina DAC X is the latest addition to the dCS product range: a full featured music player that delivers a natural and immersive listening experience, combined with effortless hi-res streaming and playback.

Lina DAC X is designed for listeners who want the convenience of digital playback combined with a deeply natural and immersive listening experience. It delivers the same range of features as the award-winning Lina Network DAC, along with some additional benefits, including a physical volume dial and IR Remote Control.

A full featured network player, Lina DAC X supports hi-res streaming from all major platforms including TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify and QQ Music, as well as music management software such as Roon, Audirvana and JPLAY. It also features a range of physical inputs to support playback from numerous sources, including TVs (via TOSLINK), computers, CD transports, dCS SACD Transports, and servers. The DAC X can be connected to any amplifier, including directly to power amplifiers or active speakers, to create a complete music playback system.

Its flexible architecture provides huge scope for future upgrades, allowing us to enhance performance and add new features over time. This is a core part of the dCS experience, with listeners receiving free of charge product upgrades through simple internet updates.

Sonically, it offers exceptional clarity and detail retrieval, bringing listeners a profoundly natural and deeply musical sound. This is made possible with unique dCS technologies including the Ring DAC – our bespoke Digital-to-Analogue conversion system – and Digital Processing Platform.

The DAC X is encased in a full-width chassis machined from solid billet aluminium, which serves to further enhance performance, and uses flex-rigid circuitry for optimal audio quality and reliability. Its understated aesthetic complements all manner of spaces and setups, from family living areas to dedicated listening rooms, whilst its superb build quality and meticulous craftsmanship reflects our uncompromising attention to detail.

As with all dCS products, Lina DAC X is hand-assembled and tested at our Cambridgeshire headquarters, so we can ensure it is built to exacting standards and performs to the highest specifications. Lina DAC X provides a new addition to a product range that has won numerous awards worldwide for its sound, design and performance.

The DAC X builds on our vision with Lina to create a versatile range of separates that can be used alone or together, allowing listeners to build the system and setup that best suits their needs.

Lina DAC X is available to order from dCS retailers and distributors worldwide, with shipping to commence in June 2025.

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