anyone here tried Parasound "New" JC-5 amp

Hi auxinput, thanks for the detailed explanation of the virtues of the amps that you have provided.  In musical preferences I am most sensitive to a too bright presentation and this will make or break a system for me.  Even though my speakers have soft dome tweeters, I still think having an amp that slightly rolls off the high end is my preference.  I am not sure if that is what you are referring to as a "creamy" sound.   

I am currently evaluating a Parasound A21+ in my system and at this point I am loving it.  But I need to decide to keep it or not soon and so far I am leaning towards keeping it.  It doesn't hurt that I did get a bit of deal on it. 

Hi jetter, that's totally cool.  It's all about personal preference with this stuff, lol.  It's so hard to try to describe what "creamy" means unless you have heard that.  The Parasound does slightly roll off/soften the highs, but it is not a "creamy" sound at all.  You can have good high frequency response, but still have a creamy sound - it's more of a midrange description, but the "Class A smoothness" can affect the entire frequency range.
The Parasound has excellent clean and realistic midrange, but the slight softening of the highs put it slightly on the "warm" side of neutral.  A "creamy" sound is not realistic at all because it introduces a creamy signature to the actual source waveforms - similar to how some tube amps create this different "tube texture" that is not part of the original soundtrack.

I know this is a little late, but if you like the sound from the JC-5 amp you might want to listen to the Anthem P2 power amp, once you listen to the Anthem P2 you will hear the difference and switch to the Anthem.They are both priced around the same amount, plus the Anthem does not even get warm while playing at full power and can go down below 2 ohm loads if needed, so it's able to drive any speaker out there.

Alucard,   that funny you said that..  the JC-5 replaced Anthem STR.
And now the Luxman L509x replaced the both of them...  and I think it might be the end gamer.   for now.  LOL

Hi @antman Sounds like from your last post, you had replaced the Anthem STR amp with JC-5.   Will you be able to share your insights a little more about these 2 amps?  I'm currently thinking about getting a new stereo amp and JC-5 and Anthem STR are the 2 amps I have in mind.    

I'm currently running Parasound JC-2 preamp with Halo A31 power amp, and considering upgrading my stereo sound for music. 

Thanks.