OMG 'Money For Nothing' is being belted out now with such force and intensity. I thought speakers sound really good with the PL but right now my HD800 is like a new headphone. There is bass NOW. Listening to 'Brothers In Arms' I can feel the hairs of my arms rising - you hear the mist in the battlefield after the last shot is fired and all you see or hear in the haze are the dead and destruction. Music has never sounded so REAL.
Ross, sell everything and get this Prima Donna. She's a killer.
Hi UT,
Can't keep up with all the new developments lol....
Reading the PL advertising - is this true?
The PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium integrated amplifier has been hailed by experts as the
best without regard to cost. Sam Tellig loved it in his review for Stereophile magazine, giving it a
Stereophile Class A Recommended Component rating. Dick Olsher, a world expert on vacuum tube audio stated in his review for The Absolute Sound magazine said
“It’s my current benchmark in integrated tube amplifiers.” Merriam-Webster defines benchmark as,
“Something that serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged.”
Because of our designs and proprietary output transformers,
the 36 watt DiaLogue Premium has better bass slam than 75 watt tube amps from the biggest names out there. For customers with low efficiency speakers (84-86dB) that like to play their music loud and have a large room, they may want even more power.
We could have easily doubled the output power by simply doing what
everybody else does:
Run the tubes harder. You’ve seen it. Two power tubes per channel running at the jagged edge, producing 75 or even 100 watts. They also produce unhappy customers, who have to replace tubes every 12 months whereas
PrimaLuna customers may go ten years before re-tubing.
A better, though much more expensive way to build, is to keep running the tubes easy, but add four more EL34s. That required
enlarging the toroidal power transformer, adding a
second Adaptive AutoBias board, and all the circuitry upgrades including the tubes, sockets,
Swiss wiring, and
Takman resistors.
The result is the HP. One of the
most powerful tube integrated amps in the world. Delivering
70 watts per channel from EL34's, 80 watts from KT88's, 84 watts from KT120's, and 96 watts from KT150's. And like all PrimaLuna amps, the tubes are run so easy you can use it every day and just relax.
And it seems to me that you could get used old tubes without worries: (correct/false?)
BAD TUBE INDICATOR
PrimaLuna engineers wanted to make owning a tube amp so simple you would have no excuse not to have your tube dreams come true.
If a tube fails, Adaptive AutoBias will instantly
put the amplifier into protection mode so no parts can get damaged. A red LED will light up in front of the tube that needs replacing. Simply plug in another tube, and listen.
No guesswork.
No smoking amp.
No getting out the soldering iron or dropping your amp off at UPS.
It also seems to me that with them KT150s you could save on the heating bills in the winter.....
Caution! Don't look at this list of tube rolling possibilities unless you are ready to max out your credit card:
With PrimaLuna, you get to choose. Go for it. 6L6G, 6L6GC, 7581A, EL34, EL37, 6550, KT66, KT77, KT88, KT90, KT120, even the monstrous KT150.
