From Jeff Rowland to Primaluna. Yes or No?


I’m currently driving my Sonus Faber Elipsa SE with a Jeff Rowland integrated Continuum S2 (class-D, 400wpc) and I’m loving it to death. Sweet warm lush with lots of layers and resolutions but I’m kinda missing my tubey sounding .

im thinking of buying a tube amp (Primaluna Evo 400) stereo and use my Jeff as a preamp…. What will I be expecting from this combo?

Am I going backward as far as sound quality?
Thank you all

 

 

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Showing 2 responses by jimmy2615

At home I had Tannoy Kensington loudspeakers, and ended up buying the PL equipment, which although perhaps a no brainer with Tannoy, also was an improvement over the JRDG.  I’m sure there’s some loudspeakers out there that are a great match for the Continuum but for me In my experiences with it I always preferred the PL.  

I had the Continuum S2 and took it to a local dealer to hear Vandersteen Treo CT loudspeakers.  The dealer had them hooked up to Primaluna Dialogue HP amp and preamp with top of the line audio quest cabling.  I was very disheartened to hear the PL sounded so much better than the JR integrated.  It was markedly better.  Perhaps a synergy thing.  If you are curious I would recommend buying a used PL integrated to try in your system while you have the JR on hand to compare - it’s the only way  you’ll ever know for sure.  Even an older model should give you a good idea of how the PL sounds in comparison.  I used to call the Continuum my ‘sonic scalpel’.  It was very detailed and clear, but the PL was much more musical, ‘meat on the bones’, etc. for me, even better bass which surprised me given the class D JRDG.