Skip to product information
1 of 17
PrimaLuna

PrimaLuna EVO 200 Tube Integrated Amp

PrimaLuna EVO 200 Tube Integrated Amp

Eligible for PrimaLuna Tube Bundle

Choose an Additional Discounted Set of Power Tubes Below

Special terms and conditions apply.
SALE Sold out
Regular price $3,395 In stock now!
Regular price $3,395 Sale price $3,395 In stock now!
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Finish
Install Phonostage
Discounted Power Tube Bundle (Includes Stock EL34s)
Note: KT tube bundles include PrimaLuna EL34 tubes, so tube-roll to your heart’s content. Please see return policy for details. MORE KT120 TUBES ARE ON THE WAY, PLEASE ALLOW AN ADDITIONAL 2-3 WEEKS (CRYO-TREATMENT IN PROCESS).

Trade-in Form

Tell us about yourself

Tell us about your trade-in item

Please note: We are unable to accept cables, tables, and carts.

View full details

Learn About PrimaLuna Tube Bundles and Tube Rolling

  • Kevin dives into the new EVO 200 Integrated amplifier and breaks down everything making PrimaLuna the greatest value in high-end tube audio today

    Tired of vacuum-tube amps priced at whatever a manufacturer thinks they can get away with? Tired of feeding that tube hog that's also driving up your home A/C bill? You need PrimaLuna. The PrimaLuna EVO 200 series is the replacement for the much-loved ProLogue Premium.

PrimaLuna EVO 200 Tube Integrated Amp

Don't buy good. Buy perfect. Iconic. State of the art. Something relevant ten years from now and built to last a lifetime.

The EVO 200 takes the near-perfect ProLogue Premium and makes it even better! The  imposing custom power supplies have been made even heftier, and the headphone amp has been beefed up, allowing it to drive even the most demanding planar headphones. The relays in PrimaLuna's innovative autobias circuit have been improved, and the EVO 200 offers all of the innovations and solid engineering of the EVO 300 with a slightly more budget-minded component and feature set.

Tubes without tears. ... The first thing you notice is the soundstage – it’s like someone has pressed a magic, invisible ‘stereo wide’ button. This amplifier just sounds big; vocals had a broader spread, the different strands of the mix appeared to be wider apart, and the soundstage seemed to fall back further behind the plane of the speakers, too. PrimaLuna’s EVO 200 really impressed me.
— DAVID PRICE, EDITOR IN CHIEF, STEREONET AUSTRALIA / NZ, JUNE 2020

 

You can see where the money has gone, and there are rather pricier alternatives that don't feel nearly as substantial. This is an exceptional valve amplifier that is consistently easy to live with, beautifully made, and possessed of the power needed to make it practical with many modern loudspeaker designs and is likely to appeal to a far wider spread of potential buyers than might initially have been expected.
— ED SELLEY, HI-FI CHOICE

 

Compare PrimaLuna construction to any other brand, at any price. You'll be amazed.

Price
Power
Ultra-linear
Inputs
Outputs
Freq. Response
THD
S/N Ratio
Input Sensitivity
Power Consumption
Standard Tube Complement
Dimensions (WxHxD)
Weight

What PrimaLuna EVO 200 Tube Integrated Amp owners think:

Read Owner Reviews »

(Optional) Internal Moving Magnet Phonostage

Freq. Response 10Hz-50kHz
Distortion & Noise -83dB
Input Impedance 50kΩ
Gain 42dB
Suggested Min. Cartridge Output 2.0 mV

EVO internal phonostage connects directly to one of the existing line inputs on your PrimaLuna EvoLution series Integrated Amp or Preamplifier. No extra plugs or cables required. Uses Surface Mount Technology implementation for the shortest signal path and reduction of parasitic capacitances and inductance.

Made in Holland to ISO 9001 standards, boasting selected components for the best sound quality. Miniature film capacitors, minimelf resistors, and a superior op-amp for lowest noise, highest speed, and robust drive. Low impedance electrolytics and a super low noise power supply results in a turntable experience with goose bumps!

Suitable for both moving magnet and high-output moving coil cartridges. Can be installed any time (requires basic soldering skills) or installed at time of purchase (no installation fee).

Bad Tube Indicator

PrimaLuna engineers wanted to make owning a tube amp so simple you would have no excuse not to have your tube dreams come true.

If a tube fails, Adaptive AutoBias will instantly put the amplifier into protection mode so no parts can get damaged. A red LED will light up in front of the tube that needs replacing. Simply plug in another tube, and listen. No guessworkNo smoking ampNo getting out the soldering iron or dropping your amp off at UPS

Custom Toroidal Power Transformers

Power transformers generate two types of noise, magnetic and acoustic. That's why toroidal power transformers are used in the very best audio products. Compared to standard transformers, toroids radiate about 1/10 the magnetic field that pollutes music and obscures detail. Additionally, the absence of an air gap typically means toroids have an 8:1 reduction of acoustic noise. As transformers are the most expensive components in any audio product, manufacturers will even house cheaper C-core and EI-core transformers in an outboard power supply box with an umbilical cable rather than upgrade to an expensive toroid. The increased cost is significant, but PrimaLuna doesn’t cut corners. All PrimaLuna products use massive, potted toroidal transformers. PrimaLuna transformers are enclosed in a metal housing and then potted in a non-microphonic resin to further reduce noise and to protect the windings from moisture and deterioration forever.

Custom Super-Wide-Bandwidth Output Transformers

Output transformers are the most important part of any tube amp. They determine how low the bass will reach and how high the top end goes. 250 watts of power will have no top and bottom extension if the output transformers don't have the bandwidth. We use lower power to extend tube life, and bandwidth to give you slam. Transformers are the most expensive components in an amplifier, so manufacturers save money by using ‘off the shelf’ units available on the market. PrimaLuna output transformers are custom-designed, wound in-house, and massive. One reason why no other brand sounds like a PrimaLuna. "The flat tops and bottoms of these squarewaves correlate with the amplifier's extended low-frequency response; PrimaLuna's output transformers are of excellent quality." -John Atkinson, Stereophile Magazine

Adaptive Autobias

What most companies call Auto Bias is actually "Cathode Bias"- A commonly used method that is cheap to make, and often found in guitar amps, but also $20,000 high end audio amps. It reduces the available power of the amp and runs the tubes hard, meaning shorter tube life and failures via "shorts".

PrimaLuna's Adaptive AutoBias is a true, smart technology employing an array of sensors to monitor tubes and make adjustments seamlessly in real time. More important, it is the ONLY circuit of its kind that is truly "adaptive" by addressing "tube pinch off" at higher volumes, therefore reducing distortion by over 50% and greatly extending tube life. Adaptive AutoBias is completely passive and NOT in the signal path. The result is low to no maintenance, long tube life, and the lowest possible distortion for amazing sound.

Adaptive AutoBias also provides unparalleled flexibility by allowing use of almost any tube on the market today. It even has a fine-tuning switch for EL-34 and KT88/KT120/KT150 tube types.

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.

No Internal DAC / No Internal Phonostage (sub of p2p wiring)

Never buy an integrated amp with an internal DAC. Why? Because digital changes, and history shows that integrated amps with “old” digital become unwanted and have almost no resale value. 

Built in phonostages are “throw in” and are rarely good quality because manufacturers assume 90% of buyers won’t use them. The external phonostage market is very competitive. You can get something much better for as little as $200, and buy one that actually meets your cartridges needs and YOUR budget.

Superquiet Line Inputs

Input selector switches leak noise and signals from other sources, as they never turn off the other inputs completely. And, they deteriorate with age, requiring the use of cleaners. Many are mounted on the front panel requiring long runs of wires to the back panel inputs. These wires pick up stray noise from RF and EMI.

PrimaLuna has a better way. Instead of a switch, input selection is done using premium quality sealed relays mounted in the rear where you plug in your components. When an input is selected, that relay closes giving you the best connection possible. All the other relays are left open, so noise and signals from other sources can’t leak in. The signal path is now almost non-existent, so there are no wires to pick up noise.

SmartWatts - Extended Tube Life

Tube life is simply a matter of how hard you run the tubes. That’s it. The only way to extend tube life is to run them as close to zero as you possible can, making sure it is not so low you go into crossover distortion. The life of a tube will depend on two things: Plate and screen voltage.

If the plate and screen voltage is high, you are more likely to get tube shorts when you turn the amp on and you get cathode stripping which greatly effects the cathodes ability to spit out electrons. Manufacturers that run the hell out of tubes to pump up their power ratings will never tell you what voltages they use. They’ll say it’s “proprietary” as if it’s some secret sauce. There is no such thing. But if they told you that they used 575, 600, or even 625 volts you probably wouldn’t buy. We proudly tell you our tubes run at just about 417 volts for the plates and screens.

PrimaLuna runs their output tubes at a minimum dissipation without going into crossover distortion. When you look at our amps, they provide less power from each tube. With KT-120’s as an example, a PrimaLuna will give you only 21 watts per tube. So running a pair of them you get 42 watts. That’s a lot of power, but the demands per tube are a fraction of some manufacturers that give you 100 watts from a pair of KT-120’s. It’s a cheap way to get big power, and it’s cheap. In fact, free. To get more power the right way is expensive. It requires bigger transformers, sockets, wiring, resistors, capacitors, and the tubes to do it. Which is exactly what PrimaLuna did. But we didn’t stop there.

Read this carefully: Power has nothing to do with sound quality. Or bass slam. Only first-time buyers think that way. Experienced audiophiles know that for the majority of listening sessions, you use maybe 10 watts of power.

Our amps are perfect. But your system may not be.

Ask any seasoned tube-head what the most musical output tube is and they will most certainly declare it the EL34. Other amp manufacturers would love to use it. Only PrimaLuna, through our proprietary output transformer designs, can give you EL34 midrange beauty with top-end air that goes on forever. And, bass extension with so much slam, our amps are used to power subwoofers.

However, every system is different. What if you bought a speaker with bass that overloads the room? Or, that is too dark? Or, too bright? What if you just want to have fun trying the different colors of sound from a vast pallet of tubes? With other manufacturers' products, you're stuck. They're a one-trick pony. How are you going to fine-tune your sound? Buy some different cables?!

With PrimaLuna, you get to choose. Go for it. 6L6G, 6L6GC, 7581A, EL34, EL37, 6550, KT66, KT77, KT88, KT90, even the KT120 (the EVO 100 is not KT150 compatible). A future-proof design, PrimaLuna is compatible with NEW tube types not even thought of today!

PrimaLuna Integrated Amplifier Feature Comparison

EVO 400

EVO 300

EVO 200

EVO 100

Price
Headphone Amplifier
Swiss Made Wiring
Takman Resistors
DuRoch Tinfoil Capacitors
Subwoofer Output
Home Theater Bypass
AC Offset Killer
Triode/Ultra-Linear Switching
SuperQuiet Inputs
Remote Control
KT150 Compatible
Adaptive AutoBias
Point-to-Point Wiring
Bade Tube Indicator
Wide-Bandwidth Output Transformers
Toroidal Power Transformers
ALPS Blue Velvet Potentiometer

PrimaLuna Tube Bundle Details

Bundle Detials

For a limited time, customers who order select PrimaLuna power or integrated amplifiers can choose to add, at a discounted price, a set of cryogenically treated KT120 or KT150 power tubes - in addition to the stock EL34 power tubes.

Returns & Exchanges

PrimaLuna Amplifiers Bundled with Tung-Sol Tubes may be returned or exchanged in accordance with our normal return policy, HOWEVER, to prevent fraudulent purchases for discounted tubes, bundled discounted tubes cannot be returned, and a restocking fee for the full retail value of the bundled tubes will be applied to returned amplifiers.