Primaluna Evo 400 Tube Preamplifier Silver

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Primaluna Evo 400 Tube Preamplifier Silver

Name: Primaluna Evo 400 Tube Preamplifier Silver
Brand: All Stereo Component Accessories
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$6993.00

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$6999.99

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Main Features

♦ Dual-Mono Design: The EVO 400 employs a dual-mono architecture, essentially integrating two separate preamplifiers within a single chassis. This design enhances stereo imaging and spatial accuracy, providing a more immersive listening experience.

♦ Tube Rectification: Utilizing two 5AR4 rectifier tubes, the EVO 400 offers superior voltage regulation compared to solid-state rectifiers. This results in a smoother, more natural sound with improved dynamics and tonal balance.

♦ High-Quality Components: The preamplifier is constructed with premium components, including Swiss-made DuRoch tin-foil capacitors and Japanese Takman resistors. These elements contribute to the unit’s exceptional audio fidelity and reliability.

♦ Point-to-Point Wiring: Employing meticulous hand-wiring techniques, the EVO 400 features point-to-point wiring with silver-plated, oxygen-free copper conductors and Teflon insulation. This approach enhances signal purity and overall sound quality.

♦ SmartGain and PerfectMatch Circuits: The SmartGain feature sets the gain at an optimal 10dB, ensuring exceptionally quiet operation, while the PerfectMatch circuit presents an ideal 100k ohm impedance to source components. Together, these technologies enhance compatibility and performance across various audio systems.

SmartGain Design

A preamplifier is typically not required to add any gain to your system when you are using it. It is usually lowering gain from the source you are listening to. The number one complaint from audiophiles about preamp performance is noise. So why is it that so many manufacturers design preamps with 20 to 27dB of gain? And you wonder why there is “hiss”, and why tubes go noisy or microphonic? PrimaLuna preamps use SmartGain. With a gain specification of only 10dB, you will find your PrimaLuna preamp is as quiet as a church mouse. If tubes are less than perfect, you may never know it because they are not amplifying as “loud”. High efficiency speaker owner’s rejoice!

PerfectMatch

Another exclusive PrimaLuna feature is PerfectMatch, a circuit designed to present a perfect 100K ohm impedance to your source components. This is vitally important especially for tube source components, such as phonostages and DACs to sound their very best.

Dialogue front-end circuitry

The DiaLogue Premium uses three 12AU7 tubes per channel. The result is even lower distortion and increased bandwidth over ProLogue. The change in dynamic range is stunning! Distortion levels in the first stage have dropped by a factor of five at low levels, and at least 20 at higher levels, above one volt. The four 12AU7’s on the outside are driver tubes. By using four instead of two, we can swing more voltage. The two tubes in the center are the input tubes, and that’s where you want to have fun later if you wish by experimenting with different tube brands.

Tube rectified

In the world of preamps, experts agree that tube rectification is the gold standard. It’s quieter than solid state rectification, dropping the noise floor. And it offers the most natural, textured, and vibrant presentation because the circuit is now pure tube. But because it is expensive to implement, you’ll only find it in the top of the line models typically costing $10,000 or more. Finding a preamp using one rectifier tube is sweet. PrimaLuna goes even further using two 5AR4 rectifier tubes in a dual-mono design to present your music with a three-dimensionality that will give you goosebumps.

Takman resistors

If you bought a lesser amplifier, you would pay hundreds to make this upgrade. Easy to identify through their pink color, these premium resistors from Japan are popular with those who rebuild and upgrade their gear. “Modders” love TAKMAN for their low noise, linearity, and musicality.

Dual toroidal power transformers

Power transformers generate two types of noise, magnetic and acoustic. That’s why toroidal power transformers are used in the very best audio products. Compared to standard transformers, toroids radiate about 1/10 the magnetic field that pollutes music and obscures detail. Additionally, the absence of an air gap typically means toroids have an 8:1 reduction of acoustic noise. As transformers are the most expensive components in any audio product, manufacturers will even house cheaper C-core and EI-core transformers in an outboard power supply box with an umbilical cable rather than upgrade to an expensive toroid. The increased cost is significant, but PrimaLuna doesn’t cut corners. All PrimaLuna products use massive, potted toroidal transformers. PrimaLuna transformers are enclosed in a metal housing and then potted in a non-microphonic resin to further reduce noise and to protect the windings from moisture and deterioration forever. They are massive, resulting in a preamp weighing a substantial 53 pounds.

Japanese ALPS Blue Velvet Potentiometer

The best tube preamps use analogue volume controls. Not volume control chips. Look inside the most well-known brand of tube preamps and you will see a chip called a DS1666-10 Digital Resistor IC. At Primaluna, we understand the temptation to use this chip as they cost $4 each (half that in quantity!). The preamp will sound fine and be quiet, but true to “chips” it will add an electronic “sheen” to the sound. PrimaLuna prefers analogue. And we use the Gold Standard in motorized potentiometers: The iconic Alps Blue Velvet. Why? Because they track perfectly, stay quiet, and don’t sound like chips!

Dual-Mono Design

Expensive and exotic preamps always use a dual-mono design to achieve a level of imaging not possible otherwise. Most manufacturers don’t employ dual-mono because of expense. It requires two power transformers, double regulation circuits, and in fact….everything is double. In effect, dual-mono means building two discrete and separate preamps into one box. It is so expensive to build, it’s a rarity even at the highest price points. All PrimaLuna preamps are dual-mono for the ultimate in stereo imaging and a sense of space that goes on forever.

Point to point wiring

You spend a lot of money on interconnects. So why have the signal go right from the RCA jacks or speaker terminals into circuit boards with copper traces so thin you can hardly see them? What’s high-end about that?

PrimaLuna employs Point to Point Wiring on all products. EVO 300 and EVO 400 models even use Swiss-made silver-plated OFC wire. The entire signal path, including resistors and capacitors, is painstakingly hand wired with heavy-gauge cable by craftsman.

No internal dac / no internal phonostage

Never buy a preamplifier with an internal DAC. Why? Because digital changes, and history shows that preamplifiers with “old” digital become unwanted and have almost no resale value.

Built in phonostages are “throw in” and are rarely good quality because manufacturers assume 90% of buyers won’t use them. The external phonostage market is very competitive. You can get something much better for as little as $200, and buy one that actually meets your cartridges needs and YOUR budget.

SuperQuiet Line Inputs

Input selector switches leak noise and signals from other sources, as they never turn off the other inputs completely. And, they deteriorate with age, requiring the use of cleaners. Many are mounted on the front panel requiring long runs of wires to the back panel inputs. These wires pick up stray noise from RF and EMI.

PrimaLuna has a better way. Instead of a switch, input selection is done using premium quality sealed relays mounted in the rear where you plug in your components. When an input is selected, that relay closes giving you the best connection possible. All the other relays are left open, so noise and signals from other sources can’t leak in. The signal path is now almost non-existent, so there are no wires to pick up noise.

Ac offset killer - a primaluna exclusive

AC Offset Killer is about goose bumps. The ones you get when music comes out of a background so quiet, you may say to yourself “Just how is this possible?” PrimaLuna custom-winds our own massive toroidal power transformers that are low in hum and EMI. But we wanted more. Our engineers designed the AC Offset Killer to lower transformer noise to a place no other manufacturer dreams of going, regardless of how bad your electricity is. The result? Sense of space. Texture. The resonance of an acoustic guitar or violin string that seems to trail on forever. The AC Offset Killer will amaze you.

CONNECTIVITY

Inputs : 3 pairs Stereo RCA, 2 pairs Stereo XLR, 1 pair Home Theater Input

Outputs : 1 pair RCA Tape, 1 pair Stereo RCA, 1 pair Stereo XLR

DIMENSIONS

Length : 15.9 inch(s) / 405 mm

Width : 15.2 inch(s) / 385 mm

Height : 8.1 inch(s) / 205 mm

Weight : 52.8 lb(s) / 24 kg

GENERAL

Output : 2V / CH

Frequency Response : 18 Hz – 38 kHz +/- 1 dB ◊ 12 Hz – 75 kHz +/- 3 dB

THD : < 0.5% @ 2V

S/n Ratio : 93 dB (98 dB A weighted)

Input Impedance(s) : 220 kOhm

Input Sensitivity : 650 mV for rated output at maximum volume

Gain : 9.7 dB

Power Consumption : 61 Watts

Vacuum Tube Complement : 2 x 5AR4, 6 x 12AU7

Output Impedance(s) : 256 Ohm

Remote Control : Full

PACKAGING DIMENSIONS

Length : 22.7 inch(s) / 577 mm

Width : 18.4 inch(s) / 468 mm

Height : 12.4 inch(s) / 315 mm

Weight : 63.8 lb(s) / 29 kg

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