Linea Research

Linea Research designs, develops, manufactures and markets cutting edge professional audio technology.

Linea Research was formed in 2003 by Davey Smalley, Ben Ver, Pip Wilson and Paul Williams, all of whom had worked together previously in the professional audio industry. The aim was to design, develop and market cutting edge professional audio technology. Having spent much time doing basic research and developing crucial pieces of technology, the company used these developments to produce its first product in 2004, the X-Pod Class-D amplifier with integrated switched-mode power supply and DSP. The X-Pod has been adopted by some very prestigious clients who have collectively now deployed many thousands of these units. Since then, the range of amplifier, DSP, network and software products has greatly expanded. The four founder members are still the active directors.

Our extensive experience in audio engineering and the associated key expanding technologies places us uniquely and ideally to exploit these for our clients. The combination of Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), sonically transparent Class D Power Amplifiers, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Networking, Software and Design For Manufacture are all areas in which we excel, all of them non-trivial from an engineering perspective. These are the demanding technologies increasingly needed in modern audio systems, and Linea are in the unique position of being able to offer them all to our partners to enable them to deploy leading-edge products quickly into the market place with the minimum of investment outside their core business.