Recommend Class a Amp

I heard a pair Dave, driving a pair of Wilson Alexia's there were many other big esoteric amps there also worth $20k+ tubes and S/S and they couldn't come close to what the JC1's could do.

Cheers George

Hmm...well, it is a mass market (or semi-mass market) product, though true? I remember reading here that they did not use the superior Nichicon filter caps for a while.

Anyway, I have pooh-poohed Parasound here on the other boards I'm on, however I wouldn't mind putting them up to the big boys.

The JC1 sounds great, super transparent, super powerful, great value. Doesn't have the sweetness of the Pass Labs.

Trade offs basically.

Dave, no I would not call the JC1 nor any $4000 amp mass market or even close to "semi-mass market." To do so would be to not understand the big picture of the market. Personally, I would call Sony mass market. And Marantz, Yamaha, Peachtree as semi-mass market (they try to cater to the masses who want something better than average, but yet they still distribute their products via mass market big-box retail channels). In the big picture Parasound (and especially their Halo line) are 'high end' or boutique or whatever you wanna call it.

Abrew19, and 99.7% of the people in the world would agree with new.
It really dawned on me recently how nutso this hobby has become when I saw an ad in one of the mags for a phono
cartridge whose bold headline was" And only $5999.00" .