Parasound vs Primaluna vs Alternatives

Many good stuff out there, but not Primaluna or Parasound for me.

Tubes:
1- Coincident 211PP Dragon MKII for the fullest and most incredible      sound with lots of power
2- Coincident 300B Frankenstein MKII with Psvane WE300B tubes, if you dont have to play very loud.

Solid State:
1- Benchmark AHB2 for power, resolution, and most amazing attack and dynamics, or
2 - Passlab XA-60.8 (and up..100.8 etc) for good transistor with some tube sound, but not as performant as the Benchmark in overall.

I find the Primaluna Dialogue HP integrated to be phenomenal.  It was already the best I'd heard in my system, and then I swapped in some NOS tubes...WOW!  

So I found a solid deal on a Primaluna Dialogue HP integrated. 
Currently is loaded up with all stock tubes. Although I ordered some Cifte 12au7 tubes to play with as well.

Picking it up tomorrow. 

Very much looking forward to performing some A/B comparisons between that and the Parasound A31 on my Double Impact speakers.  

Will report back after I spend some serious time playing around and listening. 

Congratulations! Let us know how it works out and post your impressions, etc. as well as over on the Double Impact thread. 

I've been using that amp (PL Dialog HP integrated) for some time with Zu Soul Supremes in a small room, and while every tube in it was great (I went from EL34s to KT88s then KT120s then finally KT150s), the 150s are an almost mandatory investment in my opinion.  I've had the 150s for over a year and they are totally worth it even though it's an expensive change for 8 of them. Despite the really high efficiency speakers and small room, the Zus sound phenomenal with the extra power, but I suspect the 150s are just a better sounding tube all around that just happen to produce more power too (than the other KT family, at least).

I will, however, say that when ready, putting a good pre-amp in front of it can improve the sound even further (bypass its pre-stage through the home theater inputs).  It's going to have to be a $5k preamp or greater to get much improvement, I suspect.  I demoed an Audio Research LS-28 that was a good improvement in resolution over the built-in, but is almost $8k new.  I settled on a bespoke pre-amp instead which bettered the LS-28, but have kept the PL as the amp because it's so good.  And to be clear, it's fantastic as an integrated, so don't take my comments as criticism of this piece...I love it as an integrated.

Even more impressively, this amp has a phenomenal headphone amp section, btw...which got even more awesome with the tube upgrades.  Also a great way to critically listen to tube changes or the effects (good and bad) of putting a pre-amp in line.  It's better than 3 other multi-thousand-$ headphone amps I own.

I'm hoping to try some $5k-15k 300b set amps to compare, but I'm very very happy with this amp for the time being and I think you will too.