Prima luna Owners - What Speakers are you using

Some background ... I am using the PL2 with Ascend Acoustic Sierra 1s and a Rega Apollo CD player. The interconnects are Audioquest Black Mamba II and the speaker cables are QED Silver Anniversary. I have tube rolled a bit over the 7 years that I have owned the PL2. For most of that time, I have used EL34s or 6CA7s and always new production Electro Harmonix and Mullard or Tung-sol reissues.

My primary reason for purchasing the Sierras was that they are equally at home being placed vertically or horizontally on shelves, which is a constraint in my set-up.

With all that out of the way ...

I have tried a number of monitors with the PL2. Some were consistently very good to excellent (Rega Aras and Omega Super 3i), some were good most of the time (Energy RC10 and NHT Super Two), and some were just average (Spendor SA1 and Totem Mites). None of this is meant as a judgment on these speakers, but rather how the speakers performed in the way that I have used them.

The Sierras sound very full. Bass goes pretty low ... not boomy at all. Good amount of detail, without an overemphasis on the detail. I can listen to these speakers for hours on end. I can not speak to things like stereo separation, mostly due to how I have the speakers set-up (on their sides, on top of bookcases). Overall, I am very pleased with the Sierras and have been using them for a year now.

Rich

Hey Brad. Late to the discussion but here's my $0.02. I have a PrimaLuna Prologue Three paired with CODA Technologies 10.5r amplifier, Manley Labs Chinook phono stage, and Pro-Ject Debut III with Ortofon OM40 MM cartridge. The speakers are 1980 vintage Advent Loudspeakers in walnut finish. I replaced the stock PL tubes with NOS from Vintage Tube Services. Andy guided me all the way - great guy with incredible knowledge about tubes.

Late to the conversation, but I have a Prima Luna CD player going into a Dialogue Premium Integrated Amp with KT120 tubes, driving a pair of Martin Logan EM-ESL electrostatic speakers, coupled with an SVS SB13-Ultra sub. It pulls me down to the couch every time. Have about 100 hours on them all and they are sounding seriously good.

Hey Boccaccio,

Is the PL CD player worth the $3k?

Thanks,

Rich

In my opinion, yes. I find that the PL CD player has a real leading edge transient detail sound, keeping the drums and staccatto instrument groups dead center ( without sounding stiff or sloppy)
It has great low level retrieval, so the reverb trails off into total blackness.
I am running the CD player into a Prima Luna Dialogue premium amp, so the whole might be greater than the sum of its parts
I also upgraded my amp to TungSol KT120's, which improved pace.