Ordered my new amp today... been a long road!

@audiomaze - I have read that the Parasound amps take a very long time to burn in (like 400-600 hours sometimes.  Some people say 1200 hours on the JC1)}.  That being said, my own experience with A21 and JC1 amps were the same as yours.  The amps are very refined in the midrange, but in the end, the highs just were not crisp enough.  I even did the Hi-Fi Tuning Supreme silver fuse upgrades (that was an expensive test of nothing).  The A21 has 5 fuses that affect the audio signal path and the JC1 has 7 fuses.  The silver fuses did help but in the end the sound became too unatural (sterile / solid state) from the silver influence.  This is just the sonic signature of Parasound.  I think they fuse the crap out of the amps because the fuses actually slow down current draw and helps voice the amp to be more warm sounding with rolled off highs.  This is exactly the same thing you see in the Marantz equipment, which is also voiced warm.   The 10T speakers that captbeaver has do tend to be very bright on the highs, so the Parasound might actually be an nice fit.

Oh, in addition to Parasound JC1s, I tried Bryston 7B3 monobocks.  Those were not actually bad, but way to fast/thin sounding.  They could not keep up with either the JC1 or Emotiva in body and bass.
I tried some Classe M300 monoblocks.  All the sound was there, but to me it just sounded flat.  Completely non-exciting.  No life or emotional engagement.  I'm sure caphill will chime in here and tell me that I'm completely crazy, but that is what I ended up with in my system.  Strangely, when I switch to stock power cords on the Classe amps, it got a little better, but I just was not impressed at all.

@jetter - sorry, I can't remember writing that and I had so many different fuse combinations in my Parasound equipment that it was possible I was getting confused.  The Parasound is definitely not the fastest amp.  When using stock fuses, I think it has good mid-midrange, but the upper midrange and highs are warmed/softened and rolled off somewhat. 

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After trying several amps in my system and hearing a crap load of equipment at RMAF, I am actually back to using Emotiva XPR-1 monoblocks for everything.  Except I have basically ripped out all the guts and did a massive rebuild/upgrade on everything internally (HUGE project).  The XPR was always an awsome sounding amp (with Furutech fuses), but I always wondered if I could do better and the Emotiva did have just a little bit of harsh grain to it.  So, right now, I have four modified XPR-1 amps and a modified Emotiva XPA-DR2 amp for surrounds.

hey capt.  I wasn't going to respond to that post cuz it really seemed like a troll.  lol.