Primare R35 – MM/MC phono preamplifier

Description

The Primare R35 is a high-quality MM/MC (Moving Magnet/Moving Coil) phono preamplifier designed to extract the finest details from your vinyl collection, delivering exceptional sound quality for both entry-level and high-end turntables. As the flagship phono stage in Primare’s lineup, the R35 is engineered to provide the highest level of analog audio performance, combining versatile adjustments, high-quality components, and minimalist Scandinavian design to elevate the vinyl listening experience.

Key Features:

1. Versatile Compatibility with MM and MC Cartridges:
   • MM and MC Compatibility:
     • The R35 is designed to handle both Moving Magnet (MM) and Moving Coil (MC) cartridges, making it compatible with a wide range of turntables. This versatility ensures that it can adapt to different cartridge types, allowing you to upgrade or change your turntable setup without needing a new preamplifier.
   • Adjustable Gain and Loading Settings:
     • With a wide range of gain and loading adjustments, the R35 can be fine-tuned to match the specific requirements of your cartridge. This level of customization ensures optimal signal transfer and sound quality for any vinyl setup.
2. High-Quality Components and Design:
   • Discrete Circuit Design:
     • The R35 features a discrete circuit design that minimizes signal path interference, ensuring the purest and most accurate audio reproduction. This design approach helps preserve the delicate nuances and details of your vinyl records.
   • Low Noise and High Headroom:
     • The R35 is engineered with low-noise components and a high signal-to-noise ratio, providing an exceptionally clean and dynamic sound. This ensures that even the most subtle details in your vinyl records are captured and reproduced accurately.
3. Separate Power Supply:
   • External Toroidal Transformer:
     • The R35 uses an external toroidal transformer power supply, which helps reduce noise and interference. This power supply design ensures a stable and clean source of power, which is crucial for maintaining high-fidelity sound quality in phono amplification.
   • Isolated Power Stages:
     • The internal circuitry is designed with isolated power stages to further minimize noise and prevent interference, enhancing the overall clarity and detail of your vinyl playback.
4. Versatile Connectivity:
   • Multiple Input and Output Options:
     • The R35 features RCA inputs for connecting your turntable and offers both balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA outputs, allowing easy integration with a wide range of amplifiers and audio systems. This flexibility ensures that the R35 can fit seamlessly into your existing setup or future upgrades.
   • Grounding Terminal:
     • Equipped with a grounding terminal to eliminate hum and noise caused by ground loops, ensuring a clean and interference-free signal.
5. Elegant Scandinavian Design:
   • Minimalist Aesthetics:
     • The R35 reflects Primare’s signature Scandinavian design philosophy with its sleek and minimalist aluminum chassis. This elegant design not only looks sophisticated but also contributes to the unit’s durability and helps with heat dissipation.
   • Compact Size:
     • Despite its high-end capabilities, the R35 maintains a compact form factor, making it easy to integrate into any audio setup.

Applications:

• High-End Vinyl Playback: The R35 is designed to bring out the best in your vinyl collection, whether you have an entry-level turntable or a high-end system.
• Upgrading Your Vinyl Setup: Ideal for audiophiles who want to upgrade from a basic built-in phono stage to a dedicated, high-performance phono preamplifier.
• Versatile Integration: With both balanced and unbalanced outputs, the R35 can be easily connected to a wide variety of amplifiers, preamps, or integrated amplifiers.

Benefits:

• Exceptional Sound Quality: The R35 offers precise and accurate reproduction of your vinyl records, delivering detailed, dynamic, and lifelike sound with excellent clarity and depth.
• Customizable Settings: With adjustable gain and loading options, the R35 can be tailored to suit the exact requirements of your turntable and cartridge, ensuring optimal performance.
• High Compatibility: Suitable for use with both MM and MC cartridges, making it a flexible and future-proof addition to your vinyl playback system.

The Primare R35 MM/MC phono preamplifier is a top-tier choice for vinyl enthusiasts who want to experience the highest level of analog audio performance. Its combination of versatile compatibility, high-quality components, adjustable settings, and elegant design makes it a perfect match for a wide range of turntables and audio systems. Whether you’re upgrading your vinyl setup or building a high-end analog audio system, the R35 delivers exceptional sound quality, precision, and flexibility, making it a valuable addition to any serious audiophile’s collection.

Primare R35 – MM/MC phono preamplifier – Technology

R35 MM/MC phono preamp is designed to amplify with honest fidelity the delicate signal from even the lowest output phono cartridge.

The design has been carefully crafted so that all components work sympathetically together, including a fully isolated power supply, allowing the highly sensitive signal components to function in a noise free environment for superior performance, resulting in cleaner sound and greater fidelity. R35 features adjustable gain to amplify the signal from virtually any moving magnet or moving coil phono cartridge, and a very wide range of input adjustments allowing for ideal cartridge and system matching.

 

The look and feel of Scandinavia

We believe that every aspect of our products – the way they look, the satisfying feel of the controls – contributes to the overall experience of living with Primare. As a result, Primare products exude the hallmarks of Scandinavian design – simple, elegant designs, with approachable and easy to understand functionality.

An example of this is the standby button discretely placed within the Primare logo on the faceplate of our R15, R35 and A35.2 models – or as we say lagom, not too much not too little, everything in balance, proportion, and harmony.

 

 

Modular Design and System Building

We feel it is essential to offer modularity whenever possible in order to have just the right features, both now and for the future. Modular design is featured in the I25 and I35 modular integrated amplifiers, as well as the PRE35 modular preamplifier, all of which can be updated with DAC and Prisma modules, as well as the CD35 CD player that can have the Prisma module added, either at the time of purchase or at a later date.

As a result, we are able to offer a carefully considered array of models and configurations in order to allow for device selection that best fits any system need. For example, a CD35 with Prisma module installed can be paired with an I35 integrated amplifier, allowing for a separation of analog and digital stages. Or, an I35 with DAC and Prisma modules installed can be paired with a DD35 CD transport, allowing for multi-room and multi-zone playback of every input, whether analog or digital source.

And while not modular, the R35 can be added to any of those systems to include high performance playback of vinyl records.

Specifications

• MM/MC moving coil and moving magnet
• Gain adjustment up to 50db MM and 76db MC
• Load adjustment capacitance and resistance
• RCA 1 x stereo pair input
• RCA 1 x stereo pair output

• XLR 1 x stereo pair output
• Dimensions 430x384x92mm (WHD)
• Weight 9.5 Kg
• Finishes black or titanium

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