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Has Anyone Uesed A PrimaLuna Amp With Harbeth Speaker's

Hi guys, I will be on the market soon for a new amp and I keep looking at the Primaluna Amps, has anyone heard the Primaluna Dialogue Premium amp driving a pair of Harbeth's 30.1 speakers? these are 87d/b and I am not sure how this will work out?
bigred71
willemj
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Harbeth's Alan Shaw demonstrated the M40.1 in Hilversum in the Netherlands (there is a youtube video somewhere but I cannot find it right now). With some music, the peak power indicators on the monoblock power amplifiers indicated that they were producing more than 500 watts per channel.
ryder
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Be cautious on the amp selection for the M30.1. In my experience, Harbeth speakers can really sound like mud with the wrong amp. With the right amp they come to life and sound much energetic and livelier.

I believe it’s not a question of whether the M30.1 sounds better with tube or solid-state. Apart from the "flavor" of the amp, it’s the current or power that brings the speaker to life. The M30.1 is a more difficult speaker than the SHL5 Plus and requires more current to sound good. If Tswisla finds the SHL5+ to sound wrong with the Primaluna Dialogue Premium, chances are the M30.1 will sound even worse with that amp.

With the M30.1, you need an amp that is sufficiently powerful and able to provide the current to properly drive the speakers. Otherwise it will sound lacklustre.
ricwa
23 posts
 
I have M 30.1s driven by a Rogue Stereo 100 and I find the combination to be glorious, especially with acoustic music. Pre is an ARC LS-27.
bluesy41
211 posts
 

Again I am spending an avg. of 3 plus hours a night listening to music since purchasing my PrimaLuna's. I have never ever achieved this type of music satisfaction in my home before.

PL Dialogue Premium Preamp

PL Dialogue Premium HP Amps
Magnepan 20.7 speakers

Tara Labs 0.8 speaker and interconnect cables

Cheers

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bigred71 OP
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Hi Guy’s

Thanks to all of you for getting back to me on this subject, some very good feedback,

I use a high power SS Amp now with the Harbeth's and on the hole like the sound, I just fancy some valve amp’s and love what I have heard in the past, I have done some home work and there are some very good write up’s about the primaluna amps, I am thinking on the lines of the Primaluna Dialogue Premium HP and going for a pair to use as mono block’s, I just need to get over to my dealer and hear them.

Steve.


 
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