Unlike Any Hybrid Integrated Tube Amplifier You've Ever Heard: Acclaimed PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid Reproduces Music with Thrilling Textures and Warmth, Offers Solid-State Control and Depth
Business in the front, party in the back: The PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid integrated amplifier follows an inverse but related approach, placing tubes in the front and solid-state in the back of a fully dual-mono component that reproduces music with thrilling textures, tones, and dynamics. Suffice it to say that you’ve likely never experienced a hybrid tube integrated amplifier like this award-winning model — or one at this price level that works such wonders with soundstages, spaciousness, imaging, and attack.
Acclaimed by veteran audio critics on both sides of the pond, it employs the same Marcel Crosse-devised preamplifier gain stage as the company’s EVO 400 preamplifier and pairs it with a Jan de Groot-designed output circuit. The latter uses Linear Systems JFETs and two complementary pairs of Exicon MOSFETs for each channel. The result: The warmth and harmonics of tubes with the control and low-end thrust of solid-state, as well as a perceptible escalation of high-fidelity bandwidth and detail.
Recognizing the importance of the power supply, EVO 300 Hybrid leans on a custom-wound set of three potted toroidal transformers, high-performance LEDs at critical points, and extensive shielding. Delivering 100Wpc (into eight ohms), the 68.3-pound EVO 300 Hybrid also boasts multiple advantages exclusive to PrimaLuna. They include AC Offset Killer, which lowers transformer noise to a level you need to hear to believe — and you will, especially when you experience the elevated degrees of spaciousness, black backgrounds, and natural decay. Another PrimaLuna-only benefit in the form of a transformer-coupled subwoofer output that permits your speakers and subwoofer to operate with seamless coherency? It’s here, too.
Save for a built-in transformer-coupled headphone amplifier for the times you want to enjoy tunes in private, EVO 300 Hybrid takes a minimal approach — no internal DAC or phonostage here — to focus on purity and ultra-low distortion. The 8.1 x 15.9 x 15.2-inch unit incorporates point-to-point wiring throughout — with Swiss-made, silver-plated, OCC copper with a Teflon dialect in the signal path for superb speed and transparency. Japanese-made Takman resistors, renowned for their linearity and naturalism, add to an audiophile wish list that encompasses DuRoch tinfoil capacitors, ultra-quiet sealed relay inputs, and an ALPS blue velvet potentiometer. Moreover, the presence of five pairs of RCA inputs, a stereo HT bypass, and tape output give you connectivity flexibility.
Unlike Any Hybrid Integrated Tube Amplifier You've Ever Heard: Acclaimed PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid Reproduces Music with Thrilling Textures and Warmth, Offers Solid-State Control and Depth
Business in the front, party in the back: The PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid integrated amplifier follows an inverse but related approach, placing tubes in the front and solid-state in the back of a fully dual-mono component that reproduces music with thrilling textures, tones, and dynamics. Suffice it to say that you’ve likely never experienced a hybrid tube integrated amplifier like this award-winning model — or one at this price level that works such wonders with soundstages, spaciousness, imaging, and attack.
Acclaimed by veteran audio critics on both sides of the pond, it employs the same Marcel Crosse-devised preamplifier gain stage as the company’s EVO 400 preamplifier and pairs it with a Jan de Groot-designed output circuit. The latter uses Linear Systems JFETs and two complementary pairs of Exicon MOSFETs for each channel. The result: The warmth and harmonics of tubes with the control and low-end thrust of solid-state, as well as a perceptible escalation of high-fidelity bandwidth and detail.
Recognizing the importance of the power supply, EVO 300 Hybrid leans on a custom-wound set of three potted toroidal transformers, high-performance LEDs at critical points, and extensive shielding. Delivering 100Wpc (into eight ohms), the 68.3-pound EVO 300 Hybrid also boasts multiple advantages exclusive to PrimaLuna. They include AC Offset Killer, which lowers transformer noise to a level you need to hear to believe — and you will, especially when you experience the elevated degrees of spaciousness, black backgrounds, and natural decay. Another PrimaLuna-only benefit in the form of a transformer-coupled subwoofer output that permits your speakers and subwoofer to operate with seamless coherency? It’s here, too.
Save for a built-in transformer-coupled headphone amplifier for the times you want to enjoy tunes in private, EVO 300 Hybrid takes a minimal approach — no internal DAC or phonostage here — to focus on purity and ultra-low distortion. The 8.1 x 15.9 x 15.2-inch unit incorporates point-to-point wiring throughout — with Swiss-made, silver-plated, OCC copper with a Teflon dialect in the signal path for superb speed and transparency. Japanese-made Takman resistors, renowned for their linearity and naturalism, add to an audiophile wish list that encompasses DuRoch tinfoil capacitors, ultra-quiet sealed relay inputs, and an ALPS blue velvet potentiometer. Moreover, the presence of five pairs of RCA inputs, a stereo HT bypass, and tape output give you connectivity flexibility.
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