Welcome to the Machine …. PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier 2012 (Part 6)

And a minor change in fusing. Minor as seen as a part of the DiaLogue Premium design, but major as part of the complete PrimaLuna (and Mystère) design story.

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Welcome to the Machine …. PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier 2012 (Part 5)

And the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier is the first from the PrimaLuna family which has our 100% approval to use the new KT120 power tubes. We have users in the field reporting about favorable results with these tubes in other PrimaLuna models, but we did not actually prepare any of these models for this tube.  The power section for the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier has been prepared for KT120. The amplifier bias switch position for KT88 and KT120 is the same.

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Welcome to the Machine …. PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier 2012 (Part 4)

Almost forgot to describe one of the most obvious changes in the DiaLogue Premium design … the use of 6 x 12au7 tubes …. Lots to tell you about this.

One + One = Two, but Two + One =THREE … 3 x 12AU7 per channel

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Welcome to the Machine …. PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier 2012 (Part 3)

Looking at the pictures of the inside of the DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier makes me think of our AH! Njoe Tjoeb cd player. While it started off as a good quality cd player with tube output stage we added step by step different options. In the beginning a player with lot of space, in the end a player (if all options were used) with almost no empty space left. Certainly if 3 Super Tube Clocks and an extra transformer to supply these, are added. Same thing we start to see here in this amplifier.

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