JRDG Capri vs. Parasound JC-1

The Capri is a lot of preamp for the money. Slightly warm (found this out after comparing to a passive preamp), but in my system very good frequency extension and balance. Never compared it to a JC-2.

Not knowing anything about your system is a handicap to giving you sound advice. The quality of performance of either of these preamps will depend on proper preamp to amp matching, and amp to speaker matching.

I have the Rowland Capri now and I am using it with the Rowland 102 amplifier
so I'm assuming that matchup is appropriate. As for speakers, my horns are driven by B&C DCX 50 compression drivers with 8 ohm impedance and my woofers are driven by a Perreaux PMF 1850. They are JBL Le 15B in their native JBL cabinet, again 8 ohm.
The JC-2 is on the way and I'm trying to decide whether to open the box or just sell it sealed. I'm assuming a sealed box with a full factory warranty will fetch more money than one I claim I just opened to take pictures or whatever.

So that's the real question, Do I just sell it or try it out first and cost myself hundreds of dollars for the privilege?

Macrojack,

please open the box. I am sure you will end up liking the JC-2 better. I am quite confident ... almost confident enough to consider making you this promise...if you decide to sell the JC-2, you can send me an email and I will consider sending you a check for your loss :-)

Seems like you have the synergy thing going with JRDG. Personally, I'd open up the JC-2 and give it a listen anyway, but maybe in your case leaving well enough alone is better.