Primaluna?

Also, I have the Primaluna power amp. I didn't get the integrated amp because I wanted a stepped volume pot...something a bit better than the Alps unit the that comes with the Primaluna integrated. The Alps pot is a good enough unit but I just wanted a bit more.

I use a Don Sachs preamp which has a very nice stepped attenuator...it's a very good match with the Evo 400 power amp.

I did compare the Don Sachs Kootenay against the Evo 400 and it held its own. They sound different. The Kootenay is a little drier, cleaner...almost SS like...while the Primaluna is warmer, with more body and tube-like.

Excuse me, but you did not have the Kootenay amp for any amount of time long enough for the caps to run in.  So you never knew what it sounded like.  Sorry, but comparisons with your PL amp are invalid.

Don

LOL...here we go again!

@sandthemall ?Told.

Look, I don't really care what amps people like or buy.  I do care when people say things that are not based in fact though.   I have no comment on the PL amp because I have not heard one.  I can however, look at the photos of the inside and see what sort of power supply is uses, see that caps it uses, see the tube compliment, and tell quite a bit about the topology of the circuit.   I am sure it sounds nice.  It does not sound at all like the Kootenay amp though, and I can tell that from photos, and quite frankly, experience rebuilding close to 1000 pieces of vintage tube equipment so that I know what lots of tubes, circuits, and power supply designs sound like.   Enjoy your Prima Luna gear and I am sure it is good value.  But it will sound different than the Kootenay.  I am not saying which is better, but I would be surprised if one didn't have considerably more micro detail than the other.