{"id":137196,"date":"2021-10-04T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=137196"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:12:20","slug":"primaluna-evo-300-hybrid-integrated-amplifier-delivering-100-watts-per-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/primaluna-evo-300-hybrid-integrated-amplifier-delivering-100-watts-per-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"PrimaLuna EVO 300: Hybrid integrated amplifier delivering 100 watts per channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The external difference between the\u00a0PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid\u00a0integrated amplifier\u00a0from the original version, the pure tube\u00a0PrimaLuna EVO 300\u00a0, is not immediately evident: behind the protective grille of the case, there are no\u00a0power amplifier\u00a0stages\u00a0in the second row.\u00a0Only six 12AU7 wideband dual preamplifier triodes remained in place.<\/p>\n<p>They are still selected according to the proprietary PTSTM \u201c60 out of 100\u201d principle (PTSTM &#8211; Premium Tube Selection).\u00a0The final stage is built on MOSFET components that work especially well with tube circuits, providing the same soft tube sound.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1525\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8.jpg 1525w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8-800x460.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8-1080x620.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8-843x484.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8-366x210.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-8-1473x846.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1525px) 100vw, 1525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The circuitry for the EVO 300 Hybrid output stage was developed by Floyd Design, a PrimaLuna division headed by Jan de Groot.\u00a0They&#8217;ve been doing Mosfet (and JFET) for almost 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The EVO 300 Hybrid is ready to connect five unbalanced RCA inputs and a home theater input.\u00a0Provides tape output and subwoofer outputs, and in stereo and mono options.\u00a0The 6.3 mm headphone jack is located on the front panel.<\/p>\n<p>The use of solid-state output stages is said to have more than tripled the output power of the EVO 300 Hybrid, delivering 100 watts per channel with 8 ohms speakers, and a 4 ohm load all 150 watts per channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1497\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9.jpg 1497w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-800x855.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-1080x1154.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-843x901.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-1437x1536.jpg 1437w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-366x391.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pasted-9-1473x1574.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cost and release of the PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The external difference between the\u00a0PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid\u00a0integrated amplifier\u00a0from the original version, the pure tube\u00a0PrimaLuna EVO 300\u00a0, is not immediately evident: behind the protective grille of the case, there are no\u00a0power amplifier\u00a0stages\u00a0in the second row.\u00a0Only six 12AU7 wideband dual preamplifier triodes remained in place. They are still selected according to the proprietary PTSTM \u201c60 out [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/primaluna-evo-300-hybrid-integrated-amplifier-delivering-100-watts-per-channel\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":137200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-137196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}