Though I’m happy with my current speakers, having owned Kans and Katans, the 119 has piqued my interest. The rear ported design is a departure, and will probably mean they’ll need to be placed a bit away from the front wall, which likely rules them out for my situation. Still curious to hear them, though.
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I was told that they’ve been designed to work in both placements.
Apparently they are supplied with Port Bungs, so if you want to run then up against a wall or on a bookshelf you put the bungs in.
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Spikes- theres a ripcaster youtube with spikes being screwed in
ripcaster an excellent dealer by the way
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I don’t find them exiting either.
Prices are not Linn’s strongest point.
Looking at 109 (which is nice) the 119 seem to be double priced.
Anyway things have to be heard to form opinion.
Not that I find myself eager doing this anytime soon.
I liked and owned many of the older Linn loudspeakers, Isobarik, Sara, Kan 1 + II, Kaber amo.
I have nothing Linn at the moment, apart from a few interconnects.
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I’ve never heard a speaker where this resulted in good sound. Pulling them away from the wall is much better.
Their prior small speakers, the 109s, had a front port and still benefited from being away from the wall.
Of course, testing is required to know for sure.
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In the old days Linn made some great speakers, designed to be placed up against rear wall.
They did along with Naim and not a lot others.
Nowadays most speakers comes rear ported, placed near wall you risk a heavy boom.
Why on earth can’t we have some serious “close to wall” speakers again ?
Modern smaller living room is not suited to have loudspeakers out in room.
I simply don’t understand the trend.
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I know - I had Kans once.
I have nsats in my third system and they work so well on their wall brackets.
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For comparison, Keltik to 150 to Keilidh
Compared the 150s to ATC SCM40 at dealer to get the flavour of both in same environ and compare and discuss strength weakness in demo room .
Linn 150s home to see how they work in my room .
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How do they compare with the Keilidh’s? 
That’s one for tomorrow, I was too eager to get the new Linn 150s fired up .
Keilidh are nabbed from TV setup
Linn ADSM3 to one NC250 balanced connection,Linn K20 speaker cable.
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Oh yes please - eager to learn of this comparison!
And? 
If you drive these 119 speakers using a Selekt DSM with 2 power-out modules, can you convert these to aktive mode? And how??
I am in California, US, and this is new to me.
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And …they showed that they are both worth home demo .
The linn was more dynamic punchy slightly brightly lit ,superb Bass…did I say SUPERB BASS…
The ATC was more reserved and laid back ,less brightly lit but strangely possibly more detailed ( how does that work )…and needing more powered amplifier to come alive than the Linn did .
I’m not saying what amp was driving as that’s of no consequence ,what is, is the fact the ATC needs more power .for sure . Both were in passive mode .
The fact I went for taking home the 150s first tells you something .
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Wow thanks for the picture, didn’t realise how much bigger than Keilidh the new 150s are.
Guess I’ve just got used to the Keilidh dimensions over the past 27 years!
Although the footprint looks smaller.
Yes, dealer conversion with removal of a drive unit, but that’s about all I know.
How is removing one of the drive’s units going to make it active, surely that would make it only a one driver speaker ?
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