Parasound JC1 or Spectron Musician 3 se

I've owned my 5-driver, 3-way, sealed box, dynamic driver speakers for 18 years. During that time I've owned or auditioned various RAM, Atmasphere, Cary, Joule Electra, VTL, ARC, Classe, Eagle, Boulder, PS Audio, RE Designs, and Threshold amps. For the past year and a half I've owned a pair of JC-1s and they provide the best overall musical presentation I've enjoyed with these speakers. If you are looking for power, driver control, and detailed musical but unfatiguing sound, the JC-1s are certainly worth an audition.

That said, without knowing anything about the efficiency or load of your speakers, it is difficult to suggest a recommendation. Plus I am not familiar with the current Spectrons.

Thanks for your responces.

There's not a lot of Kaya owners out there, so i didn't expect alot of experience with them.

My Parasound A21 drive them pretty well I just want a little more headroom.

Their impedance drops to about 2 ohms at 20k hz.

I like the sound of the A21 so the JC1s would probably be really nice. I'm just really intrigued by the spectron amps and like that they would put off less heat.

Thanks, Sean

When I was looking for an amp to drive my Maggies 3.6, the A21 was one of my possible choices. When I weighted all the features and performance description for the amps I was considering, the Spectron seem like the real winner to me.

For my system, I'm pretty sure this is the right choice. It's been almost a year since I introduced the first Spectron amp to my system and I'm happy to report that these amps get better as the ancillary equipment gets better. I've been updating my ICs and SP cables to Stereovox Reference series and what I'm getting is a much more tactile listening experience. There is more realness to the sound with these cables. My point is that it seems to me that these amps perform extremely well with the best components out there. So I feel that if I bring a topnotch source or preamp, I won't feel the need to re-evaluate my amps. They simply get better.

I've listened to Kaya speakers driven by Innersound amps and they sounded pretty nice. They are great speakers and I'm confident they'll sound great with either amp. To these ears, the Spectron amps sound much more sophisticated than what the price suggests and therefore they get my vote.

The Spectrons MIII MKII SE are like no other amps I have heard before, Passlabs current lineup being my most recent.
Never heard or seen your mentioned amps and speakers so I cannot voice any comments.
But I can tell you this, no other amps have made my large planars play music so life like and real. Deep, tall and wide.
And the ultimate is to operate in mono config - 'totally unreal'
Terry

Terry, You prefer the new Spectons to the Pass XA200.5 on your speakers? Thats pretty impressive. I haven't heard either but I'm going to RMAF this year so I'll check them out. Sean