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SUPER LINTON
The new Wharfedale SUPER LINTON represents a significant milestone in innovation for Wharfedale, being a standout addition to the globally best-selling Heritage series.
This updated model is part of a line of award-winning speakers that are renowned for their exceptional musicality and have won the hearts of tens of thousands of music lovers. Led by Peter Comeau, the Director of Acoustic Design, Wharfedale’s engineers revisited every aspect of the speaker’s design, including the cabinet, drive units, and crossover. The outcome of their efforts is the newly upgraded SUPER LINTON.
The SUPER LINTON speakers are now available in three different finishes: Walnut, Mahogany, and Black Oak.
OVERVIEW
The current iteration of the Wharfedale LINTON was launched in 2019 and has since become one of the company’s most successful loudspeakers—ever! Not only in terms of the number of pairs sold but also in terms of awards, accolades, and endorsements from enthusiasts and the press alike.
As part of Wharfedale’s world-famous Heritage series, the LINTON can boldly and confidently claim to be one of the most astounding value loudspeakers of recent times. Not only is the LINTON exceptional in design, build, and styling, but its industrial design and acoustic performance have been universally praised as a loudspeaker that brings musicality back to music and romance back to home hi-fi.
Still going strong and one of the most sought-after loudspeakers on the market, the LINTON is going nowhere soon and remains a jewel in the crown of Wharfedale’s ever-popular Heritage series.
Unlike the SUPER LINTON of ’67, which was ‘Super’ mainly due to improved cabinet design, the new SUPER LINTON is genuinely SUPER in every way. While not detracting from its sister model, the current LINTON, the SUPER LINTON takes one step further in engineering and performance in almost every aspect. The result is a moderately more expensive but extensively more capable loudspeaker that forms the perfect addition to the Heritage series, offering an upgrade path for existing LINTON owners while also bridging the gap to the flagship, UK-made DOVEDALE model.
Super what and super how?
Like the original ‘Super’ concept, the new SUPER LINTON benefits from an enlarged cabinet and proprietary Wharfedale sandwich cabinet design, which features a resonance-reducing combination of two layers of MDF complemented by a layer of acoustic damping glue.
A new bass unit and a more powerful motor system enhance the low-frequency performance, extending down to 32Hz! This results in a more dramatic and impactful low end.
For the treble output, the SUPER LINTON features a lightweight fabric weave dome coated with special damping material and supported by a ceramic magnet motor system, contributing to its sweet and detailed character. The revised short horn profile ensures smooth response down to the upper midrange, and the new front plate design enhances high-frequency dispersion, matching the transient impact and detailing of the new bass unit.
A newly revised chamber for the midrange drive unit works to cancel out mid-band specific back waves using multiple layers of long-hair fiber, resulting in a more natural prominence of vocal and instrumental frequencies.
Recognizable as having ‘LINTON DNA’, the SUPER LINTON’s appearance is a modest update. However, new considerations were made for the driver array and cabinet dimensions. The SUPER LINTON sits a modest 50mm (2 inches) taller than the current LINTON model. This slight increase in dimensions means the SUPER LINTON doesn’t require any different footprint or spacing—in fact, it is designed to use the same LINTON Stand for optimum positioning, preserving the much-cherished benefit of LP storage!
For more info on the development of the SUPER LINTON, visit this page:
https://www.wharfedale.co.uk/story-behind/
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