McIntosh MC611 vs Parasound JC5

Fellow tooth doc here. I went from JC5 to mc611’s. The 611’s are better. 

I'd stay Parasound, but instead of another JC5 I'd look for a pair of JC1 Mono's.  They are excellent amplifiers.

I have been mulling mono blocks over my current class D amp as winter creeps in and my basement listening room requires some heat.

The JC5 - an amplifier that is engineered as "dual mono" but can be bridged to feed one speaker seems a bit redundant to me. Was it engineered to be a dual mono amp, or engineered to be a dual mono channel amp that secretly sounds better as a mono-block? Nice that it is versatile, but, wait, what? Stymied is what I get out of it. While the topology may just be my issue, the heat one puts out vs. the other would be, I dunno, maybe not even an issue either. But it is most likely that you will love the mono-blocks but they produce enough heat that you consider keeping the JC5 around for the summer months. Hope you can give yourself a monetary buyout in best/worst case scenarios.

My interest in running mono blocks (Schiit Tyr just dropped in price) would be to push (energize) my Wharfedale's that I purchased some months ago. The probability of some added clarity in definition (class D to class A/B) is another selling point.

Considering the quality of your newly purchased B&W's, however, I would have already pulled the trigger on MC mono-blocks if I had recently acquired such a beast. You must be itching to see what they are capable of and I would think that is what you had in mind when you bought them - to mono block them with a vengeance!  

Hey ToothDoc!

Well,  for my money you are going in a particular direction and without meaning to offend, to me has too much treble information.  The Mc goes that way as well.

So personally, I'd stick with JC amps... but if you honestly want MORE of what you have then Mc is the way to go IMHO.

Always make your own ears happy, that's the only way to justify the money. :)

Really hope you find this useful, and that I want you to be personally happy with your choices.

Best,

E