AKURATE 2200, AKURATE 3200, CHAKRA POWER AMPLIFIER RANGE
Home Theater, USA
Jun 2007
Chakra C2200 and C3200 - Pushing the technology envelope
"Linn has routinely pushed the boundaries and treaded ahead of the manufacturing pack. Case in point: the Chakra range of amplifiers.
With apologies to Linn, I have had the amplifiers in my possession for much too long, but how could I resist?
The old-school rubric if initially gauging an amplifier's quality by its weight (the heavier the better) proves, in 2007, to be less true than it once was when it comes to the shockingly lightweight Chakra amplifiers. Still, these amps are packed with such state-of-the-art technology that you can relegate weight as a sign of quality to the annals of the past.
My initial impression was that the Chakra amps resolved sound with crystalline clarity and finesse whether it was dense and widely arrayed electronic music on the dZihan & Kamien Orchestra's Live in Vienna compact disc or the simplicity of Bob Dylan's most recent effort, Modern Times. The Chakras unravelled the lines of music, the individual notes, and the placement of instruments readily and cleanly, without sounding brittle, harsh or sterile.
The processed ambience on the compact disc sounded as natural and real as possible coming through the surround speakers. This was all for the good, and it was highly enjoyable. The revelations seemed even more apparent when it came to movie sound.
The Chakras revealed that same transparency over and over again, and, the more complex the material...the more the Chakras stepped up to meet the challenge."
