#Phile audio review series
Refusing to rest on their laurels, PrimaLuna’s head honcho, Herman van den Dungen worked behind the scenes to create a “step-up” series of amplifiers that improved on the ProLogue series without costing a fortune.
PrimaLuna’s wares are imported into North America by Upscale Audio, and are distributed here in Canada by AudioScape Canada. This frees users from having to use matched tubes and monitoring the bias on their output tubes, and has the added bonus of making tube rolling and replacement very easy. The ProLogue amplifiers also featured an innovative “Adaptive AutoBias” circuit. I must admit to having being bitten by the PrimaLuna ProLogue bug: a pair of ProLogue Seven monoblocks have been my reference power amps since December 2007.ĭesigned in the Netherlands and made in China, the ProLogue products sported features uncommon (if not unheard of) at their price points, including point to point hand soldered connections, premium quality parts (e.g., Alps potentiometers, Nichicon and Realcap capacitors, WBT-style speaker terminals, and gold plated input sockets), a heavy gauge fully vented steel chassis with hand rubbed paint work, and (on some models) upgraded Solen capacitors. There were a number of models in the ProLogue series: a couple of integrated amplifiers, a line-level preamp, a pair of stereo power amps, and a pair of monoblocks (a CD player later rounded out the range). A few years ago, a company called PrimaLuna (which is Italian for “First Moon”) caused quite a stir with their reasonably priced “ProLogue” series of tube amplifiers.
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