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RE: PrimaLuna Evo 400 and Rogue Audio Stereo 100

In a roundabout way - I prefer the Rogue Audio amps I have heard over Prima Luna amps. Prima Luna uses quality parts so I am not sure why they have left me cold - Perhaps something in the design of their auto bias or whatever makes them seem flat sounding to me.

Having said that - one of the dealers here in Hong Kong that sells Rogue also sells Line Magnetic and Melody Valve Audio - both of these sound better to me than Rogue Audio. Albeit it depends which models - Melody was my favourite for preamps, Rogue for power amps and LM for integrated amps. LM and melody make better power amps at the top end but they are far more expensive than Rogue.

But SET amps IMO sound better generally so while these other two sound better to me - they offer less power than some of the Rogue amps.

I am not a huge found of high-power push pull tube amplifiers - they, Rogue included, tend to sound too much like SS amp. So you get too much of a similar sound with the hassles of dealing with tube amps.

I almost bought a dealer demo pair of Apollo "DARK" Monoblocks. I liked it but in the end it's a lot of hassle and the same 250 watts of power can be had from my Wyred4Sound monoblocks that weigh 8 lbs each vs 100lbs each for the Dark Monobnlocks. The money saved can be put to a much better preanmp or speakers or source (where it matters more).

I never thought I would like class D because it sucked donkey balls when it came out - the rubbish was only good for subwoofers. But they're getting quite good these days.




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