Stereophile Recommended Components 2024
Dick Olsher, The Absolute Sound Magazine
Introduced in 2019/2020! Awarded with a TAS Editors’ Award 2020, 2021, 2022 and now also with a TAS Editors’ Choice Award 2023! Here is why!
“The PrimaLuna EVO 400 Preamplifier is not only PrimaLuna’s best line preamp offering ever, but it also holds its own against ultra-highend competition. It’s hard to escape the impression that it was designed from the ground up on a power amplifier chassis. It features massive and sophisticated power supplies, high-voltage regulation, exotic passive parts, and tube rectification via a pair of 5AR4s. Miraculously, it manages to combine the virtues of modern tube sound with the tonal heft and timbral realism afforded by vintage tube preamps. If purity of expression and tonal realism are sonic priorities, get ready to embrace the EVO 400!”
dICK oLSHER, tHE aBSOLUTE sOUND u.s.a.
“The EVO 400 is not only PrimaLuna’s best line preamp offering ever, but it also holds its own against ultra-high-end competition . . . If purity of expression and tonal realism are two of your sonic priorities, get ready to embrace the EVO 400. I certainly did. In a nutshell, it’s an insane audio bargain that delivers pure tube magic.”
Herb Reichert, Stereophile U.S.A.
“. . .the all-tube EVO 400 develops deeper, darker shadows, is more three-dimensional, makes more saturated tonal color, and has more eye-catching highlights. . .Old-school tube aficionados would likely describe the EVO 400 as the clearest, fastest, most transparent all-tube preamp ever.”
Jeff Dorgay, Tone Audio U.S.A.
“You truly need to experience an EVO 400 to believe it. This is one of the world’s finest vacuum tube preamplifiers at any price.”
David Price, Hi-Fi News U.K.
“The PrimaLuna EVO 400 pre/power gets embarrassingly close to the top tier for a fraction of the price of high-end equipment . . . it’s the impressive centrepiece of a serious hi-fi system – one with a charm that many rivals conspicuously lack.”
Viktor Kubal, High & Style
“Spectacular sound quality, technical processing, and design.”