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Maximum Upgrade Potential

I have a 20+ year old Prima Luna Dialogue One, and am looking at other tube amps for some unknown time in the future.  I recently replaced my power tubes, and a thought occurred to me:  When do you get to the limits of an amplifiers ability to be improved, or maximum sound quality?  If I got the best available tubes, power conditioner, cables, etc., how much improvement would I expect relative to an amplifier a step or two up the quality chain?  Will the best and most expensive tubes improve all amps equally or benefit some more than others?  And at what point is one just putting lipstick on a pig?

Thanks,

John Cotner

New Ulm, MN    

jrcotner

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tablejockey
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By way of owning a decent amp(your case the PL Dialogue) for an extended period of time suggests the PL is competent at what a tube amp is supposed to do.

Tube amps aren’t’ doing anything different in those 20 years. It’s not an absolute must, buy you’ll just have to open the wallet wider depending on what you want.

There’s another level of WOW-possibly limited only by ca$h spent.

13 year PL user.

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