Anthem STR vs Parasound JC 2 BP vs any other sub $5,000 Preamp?

Gentlemen, I am the WRSM for Anthem and thank you for considering the our STR PREAMP.  What kind of Amp do you have to mate with?  There is also our STR INTEGRATED...Our products have a minimum 309 hour break-in period by the way, so you may want to verify the amount of time not just on the unit, but the input as well when auditioning.
I don’t know where either of you are located - I cover just about everything West of the Mississippi River. If you have trouble finding or auditioning the unit, please reach out to our company directly, or through the Anthem website, and have them put you in touch with one of us Regionals and we’ll do what we can to help.  This forum has many restrictions and block phone numbers/email addresses -otherwise I’d have you contact me directly.  Thank you again!

If I go with the Anthem it’ll be the STR Power Amp. 

What room correct have you considered so far?

BTW - the 4 items I listed are all at the $5K MSRP or less. You can configure options on a few of them to go up higher in price.

Really only two, Anthems and Lyngdorf... both have pretty great reviews from the people who give them a chance.

Audioholics (Gene) has chosen to purchase Anthems STR Pre and Pro after doing some pretty in depth testing... far more than I see most big review sites doing which has me leaning heavily towards them. 

I've heard the STR integrated and the Lyndorf both in the same room and both are very good specially after the room correction software has had its go. Actually really surprised me to be honest how well it works. I've had serious thought about dumping my tube amp and going that route as I also have a hard room to deal with. Hard to say what ones better both do many things really well. I'm not getting into which I prefer as I was in a room at my local audio shop listening to speakers I've not heard before, Dynaudio 3 ways don't recall the model mid sized floor standers think around $10K. That said both do some great things in hard to treat rooms. Both are easy to listen to as well, regardless of the class AB-D conflict lol. I think the Anthem was the nicer looking amp though if that means anything to you. 

I've been a tube guy for a long time and neither of those two amps had me running for the door both were engaging and non fatiguing. I could easily live with ether that's hard for me to admit. 


glen