I'm judging from my experience with my father's Classik. It has just enough power. In a large room and with inefficient speakers, you can easily notice when it starts to run out of breath.
The Classik's CDP is not bad--much better than the NAD L40, which I use myself in a second system.
My advice to my father would be to trade the Classik in on a Genki and buy a new integrated amp with more power. Your situation may be different. My father listens to the radio a lot and for him I would suggest a Magnum Dynalab 208 : a receiver with SimAudio amplification built in.
Linn Products certainly have an upgrade path in mind for Classik owners and it might be worth your while to go to a Linn dealer and find out what that is. However if their idea is a Genki direct-linked to an LK85 amp I wouldn't go for it. Wait till you can afford a preamp too.
The Classik's CDP is not bad--much better than the NAD L40, which I use myself in a second system.
My advice to my father would be to trade the Classik in on a Genki and buy a new integrated amp with more power. Your situation may be different. My father listens to the radio a lot and for him I would suggest a Magnum Dynalab 208 : a receiver with SimAudio amplification built in.
Linn Products certainly have an upgrade path in mind for Classik owners and it might be worth your while to go to a Linn dealer and find out what that is. However if their idea is a Genki direct-linked to an LK85 amp I wouldn't go for it. Wait till you can afford a preamp too.