You might want to look for a used parasound HCA 3500 amp. Its monoblocks in one case, with tons of power and very close in sound quality to the JC1s (JC1s had a more refined treble/upper midrange) But the HCA3500 had better bass/midbass responce. Plus a lot cheaper. I used it for about three years and never had any problems with it. however, over the course of two years with the JC1s i had three break downs.
bi-am vs better monoblock?
I have old school Infinity Kappa 8.1 vII's which are very powerhungry speakers. I have a adcom gfa-5500 that use to power these speakers & they were never enough for my liking. My fiance just moved in so I used her parasound hca-1500's on my kappa's & since she had enough I bi-amped the speakers. Definantly a HUGE improvement over the Adcom...... I still wouldn't mind a little more power so I was wondering that if I do go with better amps am I better off bi-amping these again (or keep them the way they are) or should I go with something like a 600w bryston amp or something else similar?
Definantly a huge improvement from adcom to 2 parasound amps.... would I get a similar improvement going from parasound to bryston/ whatever amp ??
Definantly a huge improvement from adcom to 2 parasound amps.... would I get a similar improvement going from parasound to bryston/ whatever amp ??