What amp is best with Wilson Sasha DAW speakers

Rauligues, we are a Parasound dealer and we had the JC 1 on display, in the same rack was a pair of Electrcompaniet AW 400, a pair of Chord SPMP 650 monoblocks and the Reference Chord SPM 1400.

The reality is the Parasound was the cheapiest and least good souding amplifier in that stack.

It wasn’t that the JC 1 were bad, no they were decent, except that the Electrocompaniet was far better, the EC amps were about $2k more expensive, and the Chord monoblocks were a bit better than the Electrcompaniet.

Parasound builds great for the money gear, there is no way that any of their products compete with things that are five times the cost, we know we sell those items.

We sell Parasound because they produce excellent value for the dollar equipment, their products sound great for the price, are very well made and reliable.

In the case of the JC 1 they were nice not exceptional amplifers that got bettered by amplifiers that were not that much more expensive.


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(this was before the Kef Blades and Chord Reference amplfiers, you can cleary see the JC 1 at the bottom of the rack)


Our test system at the time was a pair of Kef Blades, with the EMM Labs Dac 2X Se, Esoeric D03X reference dacs and a high end server, cabling and power conditioning.

Your love of the brand is noble but misguided, you really do get what you pay for.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor

Dear seller: I respect your opinion and disagree with.

In the same system with Wilson MAX3 the JC1s was a real challenge to  the Boulder amps.

No, it's not that outperformed but the Boulder did not beats the JC1.

I listened too with Soundlabs top of the line speakers making not a good job or so so but a great job and other than my own system I listened the JC1 with Dynaudio one step down its top of the line.

For me in all systems the JC1 did not makes a " decent " job but a true very good job.

I'm not biased through the JC1 but in my book and with my own MUSIC/sound priorities ( main target: truer to the recording. ) the JC1 is " there " no matters what.

It has very good tonal balance, tigth and deep bass but at the other frequency extreme is really good too. Has impact and dynamics with power as the live music and at the same time detailed with fast transientes, colorless but the music natural color and with good rhythm and with enough headroom.

Maybe for some  one the Boulder or dartzeel or other amps fulfill better his own priorities but the JC1 never puts your system on shame.

What the OP decide on his amplifier is only important to him. I have not interest in any way to convince him or any other gentleamns on this Parasound amplifier and I'm only given my first hand experiences through very high resolution audio systems.

As I said in other post: JC1 is not expensive enough for really been appreciated its quality level performance, not even by audio distributors as you.


R.

Raulgias, your findings don't in anyway mirror our findings, as per price if an amplifer is $10k JC 1 and the other amplifier is $12k-14k that is basically in the same price range. 

So in our system first with the Kef 207.2 and then the Kef Blades the more expensive amplifiers sounded signfigantly better.

The fact that the other amplifiers were a bit more expensive means that most people would pay the difference. We don't recommend an amplifier just by price alone, which is why we had the amplifier in the first place. 

We purchased the amp and preamp based on raves from reviewers and the forums, without hearing the amplifiers. 

Once we got them into our store, burned them in, and tested them vs other amplifiers which came into our store a bit latter did we come to our conclusions.

We continue to work with Parasound because they make excellent products for the money, the reality is that the more expensive gear sounds better as it should.

If you honestly think that a Boulder was not better than a Parasound, then it could be a couple of things, one a gross mismatch sonically with the Boulder amplifiers which tend to be sonically a lean, clean sound with big bass or two something was not right with the Boulder amplfiers.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Hi Dave,
I have been a fan of your experience and have really enjoyed your postings.  But sadly, as of today, I have to say that your messages have all come together into one, and that is "Spend a ton of money or you will not have a great rig".  Sorry, but I don't think I agree with you or Mr. initforthemusic

I have always respected rauliruegas postings for their impartiality and content.