Where to find info on the acclaimed parasound JC-1

Bear, there have been a "small collection" of John Curl designed products that carry the name of "JC-1". Besides the Levinson preamps that John designed, he also did one for Frank Dennesen that was called the Dennesen JC-1. This was a dual mono three chassis preamp. One chassis for each channel and an outboard power supply. I know about this model as i recently became a new owner of a set of these. Other than the models mentioned, there might even be a few other "JC-1's" floating around : )

As Tim mentioned, the latest addition to John's "JC-1 corral" are the Parasound mono-block's that John designed, Carl Thompson laid out and Bob Crump voiced. In effect, Parasound is putting out a "fully tweaked" CTC design with "all the trimmin's". As such, they are supposed to be pretty phenomenal for about $6500 retail.

All the info that you can find out about them will probably come from doing a search over at AA's General Asylum or here from the keyboard of Bob Crump. Bob may be able to tell you more over the phone, so if you are really interested, drop him an email and he can forward you his phone number. Sean
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Sean, the Dennesen was the JC-80 (as in 1980) not JC-1, which was a design John did for Levinson in the 70s.....The first batch of Parasound JC-1s are in the market and retail for 3K/each monoblock.....I've got a pair in my living room, but I was hired by Parasound for the JC-1 project....The specs are posted under "News" on enjoythemusic.com and that might give you an idea of what we were trying to achieve, namely a machine built amplifier at a great price using the best parts available....All the major magazines will be reviewing the amps for Parasound.....

Bob, Thanks for kicking me back into reality. Obviously, you are right and I don't know how i managed that one. Only thing that i can think of is that i actually did some manual labor out in the sun all day, so both my body and brain are fried : ) Sean
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FYI, Crump owned and used my Symphony No.1 Amp for at least a decade in his system. Also Silver Lightning interconnects too. Then he decided to start his own thing, and hooked up with Curl.

He didn't sell the Symphony No.1 amp right away... his cat Stan apparently liked it too. :- )

Randy, Curl sent me his HCA-3500 for a rework and it took almost six months and a couple hundred parts before it was competitive with the Symphony No. 1......Hard to take a Chevy and turn it into a Porsche....That old BEAR is still the standard for midrange reproduction here....Same goes for the Silver Lightning interconnects and still use your bulk wire in our CTC products it should be noted.....Stan the cat was really upset when the BEAR went away as the 44 degrees was prefect basking temperature and the modified Parasound ran at 55 degrees.....He likes the new JC-1s as they run at just under 50 degrees......