PROLogue Premium
$3,799
ProLogue CLASSIC
$2,999
CD Players Features Comparison
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Price
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$3,799 | $2,999 |
USB Digital Input
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USB Digital Input
USB digital input allows using your computer for storage and playback of your music with all the benefits of features like playlists and easier access to your whole music library. Rather than just add in an USB input as an afterthought, PrimaLuna engineers searched endlessly looking for the best-sounding USB interface we could find. We found the hiFace, made by M2Tech in Italy. This USB input converts the jitter-filled USB digital signal to S/PDIF, dramatically improving the digital signal quality before it even gets to the SuperTubeClocks. This USB input is a true high-resolution digital input, so you can play back your high resolution digital files, up to 24-bit/192kHz. |
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Dual Mono Power Transformers | ✔ | |
Power Transformer Protection | ✔ | |
SuperTubeClocks
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SuperTubeClock
An ultra-low jitter clocking device that replaces the solid-state oscillator with a vacuum tube. Yields incredible detail retrieval and dynamics throughout the entire audio spectrum. Why use two? The addition of the second clock further reduces jitter, resulting in greater detail and resolution. |
Two | One |
Dual Mono Topology
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Dual Mono Topology
Per channel dedicated tubes. While it is fine to use a single tube as a buffer for both channels and claim your CD player is "tube", it can't be compared to the PrimaLuna design and what it does for the music. |
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Vacuum Tube Rectified
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Vacuum Tube Rectified
Vacuum tube rectified power supply adapted from the award-winning ProLogue preamps incorporates eleven separate power supply regulation circuits. Tube rectification is synonymous with organic sound, especially with CD players being known as sounding like "a computer". |
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Point-to-Point Wiring
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Point to Point Wiring
You spend a lot of money on interconnects. So why have the signal go right from the RCA jacks or speaker terminals into circuit boards with copper traces so thin you can hardly see them? What’s high-end about that? PrimaLuna employs Point to Point Wiring on all products. The entire signal path, including resistors and capacitors, is painstakingly hand wired with heavy-gauge cable by craftsman. |
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Premium Parts
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Premium Parts
Premium parts including polypropylene coupling caps, triple pi power supply filters, custom designed isolation transformers which separate the analog and digital devices, resulting in decreased signal degradation and improved sonics from top to bottom. Many CD players weigh in at ten pounds or less. Our CD players weigh 33 and 25 pounds! |
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Remote Control | ✔ | ✔ |
24bit/192kHz Upsampling | Burr Brown SRC4192 | Burr Brown SRC4192 |
Premium DAC | Burr Brown PCM1792 | Burr Brown PCM1792 |
Extended Tube Life | ✔ | ✔ |
CD Players Specifications Comparison
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ProLogue Classic |
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Price | $3,799 | $2,999 |
Frequency Response | 20Hz-20kHz +/- 0.5dB | 20Hz-20kHz +/- 0.5dB |
Output Voltage | 2V +/- 0.5dB | 2V +/- 0.5dB |
Distortion & Noise | Below -96dB | Below -96dB |
Channel Separation | 90dB | 90dB |
Dynamic Range | Greater than 120dB | Greater than 120dB |
Power Consumption | 50 watts | 50 watts |
Tube Complement | 4 - 12AU7 2 - 5AR4 |
2 - 12AX7 2 - 12AU7 2 - 5AR4 |
Dimensions (W x H x D) | 14.5" x 8" x 15.5" | 11" x 7.5" x 15.5" |
Weight | 33 lbs | 25.4 lbs |
Analog Outputs | 1 pair RCA | 1 pair RCA |
Digital Outputs | 1 Coaxial / 1 Optical | 1 Coaxial / 1 Optical |
Digital Inputs | 1 USB | None |