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Anyone own or heard of PrimaLuna?

Hi. First of all, I am not an audiophile but simply love music and like it certain way but not overly crazy. I started out with solid state Mcintosh for couple years. I recently listen to few tube amps like audio research, t+a, cary audio and prima luna. I can afford all those big expensive brands but I thought primaluna sounded as good if not better and it cost fraction of other big names.  Just curious if anyone has experience with it? What you like the most? What you feel need improvement? Any issue with customer service? How's the company? Is quality really that better as they claim against other competitors? Thank you for your feedback. 

gr8av4life
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kalali
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Alright, well, consider yourself lucky. If the combo of the MC601s and Wilson Alexia sound no different (or better) than the Primaluna and the PSB T6, you just saved yourself enough money to buy a second (or third) car. Congratulations. 
cjjeeper
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I own the Prima Luna Dialogue Premium. Just bought it Nov of 16 from Upscale.

It makes beautiful music across the spectrum.

By the way, I bought it and hooked it up to my Klipsch RP-260F and it sounded fantastic. Upgraded those to Zu Audio Druids and rolled the tubes to high end NOS tubes and it's at a totally new level.

If you are a music lover you will be extremely, extremely happy with a Prima Luna amp.

And I can vouch for the build quality as others have done. The self biasing alone is worth buying it for considering it’s performance is so outstanding. A tube short can/will cost you money and repair time in an amp without that circuit/protection. And that will be part of your cost of ownership for such an amp. Something to think about right there.

cjjeeper
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Oh and by the way.  If you buy the amp from Upscale they give you 60 days to try it on.  I'm not pushing upscale just wanted you to be aware of that.  It's almost "can't go wrong".  
cayman1000
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The built quality of Primaluna is the first class. I have a prologue Premium Intergated I my home office for a year and no issue at at.  Upgrading to KT 88 made a big difference for me. I had a Jolida in my home office. Only reason to buy a Jolida is the price but it comes with low product quality. I was considering Cayin or Rogue but I settled on a Primaluna after speaking with Kevin Deal. I strongly recommend speaking with him. I listened to  a Dialogue at a store but was not able to compare it with Prologue bc it was in a different room. Can't say it is worth the price difference but for my small room Prologue is fine. The autobias of Primaluna is one of the kind.
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