PrimaLuna EVO 200 Tube Integrated Amp
Don't buy good. Buy perfect. Iconic. State of the art. Something relevant ten years from now and built to last a lifetime.
The EVO 200 takes the near-perfect ProLogue Premium and makes it even better! The imposing custom power supplies have been made even heftier, and the headphone amp has been beefed up, allowing it to drive even the most demanding planar headphones. The relays in PrimaLuna's innovative autobias circuit have been improved, and the EVO 200 offers all of the innovations and solid engineering of the EVO 300 with a slightly more budget-minded component and feature set.
“Tubes without tears. ... The first thing you notice is the soundstage – it’s like someone has pressed a magic, invisible ‘stereo wide’ button. This amplifier just sounds big; vocals had a broader spread, the different strands of the mix appeared to be wider apart, and the soundstage seemed to fall back further behind the plane of the speakers, too. PrimaLuna’s EVO 200 really impressed me.”
“You can see where the money has gone, and there are rather pricier alternatives that don't feel nearly as substantial. This is an exceptional valve amplifier that is consistently easy to live with, beautifully made, and possessed of the power needed to make it practical with many modern loudspeaker designs and is likely to appeal to a far wider spread of potential buyers than might initially have been expected.”
