PrimaLuna EL34 Reviews

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“Very well controlled tube. Very warm. Good bass. Somewhat veiled sound.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“My new PrimaLuna EL34 tubes were shipped fast, well packaged and sound excellent. Thank you Kevin!”

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Posted 7 years ago

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Posted 7 years ago

“The structure is entrenched and the quality of sound is gentle and warm which is the sound I wish to hear. Totally, I feel it better than so called "vintage"s. Tad”

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Posted 12 years ago

“These are the tubes that came with the Prologue Oneâ€¦sounding awesome right outta-da-box. The PL-EL34 is eminently neutral sounding (I guess, as neutral as an EL34 can be) Iâ€:tm:m sure there are plenty of great new and nos EL34â€:tm:s out there and maybe some not so great. The Prologue One is not your fathers tube amplifier (my dad stuck his Eico integrated in the garage after buying a huge Magnavox TV/Stereo console with side firing 15â€ drivers and front firing horn-tweeters) I eventually inherited the Eico (surreptitiously at first) This is a contemporary vacuum tube amplifier. It doesnâ€:tm:t sound like a Dynaco- Dynakit (dinosaur?) or the classic Marantz and Fisher amps/receivers. So if thatâ€:tm:s the kind of sound that youâ€:tm:re looking for, try some NOS or recent Reissues Or just go back to 1969, NOS Flux-Capacitors are all over E bay these days. Seriously. Iâ€:tm:ve been tube-rolling the signal tubes, to good effect. more on this later. I bought a quad of ElectroHarmonix EL34. It took me right back to the early seventies; only my hearing has changed since then (for the worse probably) what I mean to say is that I listen to music differently now. I like musicalityâ€”accuracyâ€”3d-sounstaging etc. The PrimaLuna EL34â€:tm:s trim the fat and delute the sugar. Thatâ€:tm:s how I like my music. I put the EH-EL34 away in the closet (will sellâ€:tm:em for $500 in thirty years) In the meanwhile I just got another quad of the PL-EL34 (tube guys like to hoard tubes,its what we do!) You know what the best part is? I like these tubes, thereâ€:tm:s plenty available and theyâ€:tm:re dirt-cheap (comparatively speaking) Thatâ€:tm:s important to me, because Iâ€:tm:m obsessed with rare NOS-European signal-tubes!! To each, his own.”

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Posted 15 years ago