Primare Pre60 & A60

The PRE60 and matching A60 represent the present top of the Primare tree. And it’s a fine tree, too.
The PRE60 and A60 are the first seriously high-end amplifier products released by Primare in some time, and that’s
not simply high-end in terms of price. The PRE60 is every bit a ‘now’ product, as it stands between the all-digital hub of tomorrow and the all-analogue line preamp of today. The only omission is the phono stage of yesterday afternoon, but Primare makes the R32 MM/MC stage for that purpose. The PRE60 runs in fully balanced mode – it may have four single-ended line inputs, but these are ‘up-converted’ to balanced mode internally. On the digital side, the PRE60 features an XMOS-USB input alongside the usual slew of optical and coaxial S/PDIF digital inputs, and feeds all signals through a Burr-Brown sample rate converter to upsample data to 24-bit/192kHz to then output to a Crystal DSD- chummy Delta-Sigma DAC. There is also an Ethernet port and wireless LAN connection, which allows UPnP/DLNA network streaming, vTuner internet radio, and is all controlled via Primare’s very natty app. If this all sounds