PrimaLuna EVO 200 £3,100

Launching in 2003, this Dutch company has become a popular brand for value-conscious tube aficionados

PrimaLuna founder Herman van den Dungen knows that buyers in this market want reliable, user-friendly products that are also tweakable. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the EVO 200 integrated epitomises this, by offering lots of sound-per-pound, plus a variety of options. It comes supplied with EL34 power valves as standard, which is a tube famous for its sweet sound – although KT88, KT120 or KT150 can be used thanks to the amp’s Adaptive AutoBias circuit. There’s a surprising amount of detail here, but what counts is its excellent soundstage It puts out an impressive quoted 44W RMS per channel with EL34s (or 45W with KT88s), meaning that it’s far less speaker sensitive than most valve amps, including the Synthesis overleaf. Although not quite as petite as the Roma 96DC+, it is still compact…

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