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An all Parasound system - Good idea?

My brother- in- law visited last weekend and heard my 2 channel system for the first time.  Slightly ocd, he spent much time online and emailed me last night to say he was going to put his own system together and was planning to buy all of his components from Parasound, in part because he thinks a single brand will optimze performance and compatability, and because he is enamored by the John Curl connection. To that end, he plans to buy  a JC2 Preamp, A21 Amp and JC3+ phono amp.

I have told him focus on  speakers first, then source components. That notwithstanding, is the "All Parasound " a good idea to avoid the possibility of components not playing nice together or should he not focus on brand loyalty and shop for "best in class" components instead?

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georgehifi
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I’m also a John Curl fan, and the Parrasound products he designed.

Did you look at the Halo Intergrated (John Curl design) everything but the kitchen sink comes with this, even a DSD ESS Sabre Dac and a phono stage. Not quite the power of the A21. but still very respectable.

Cheers George
erik_squires
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The integrated, according to Parasound's website:

 http://www.parasound.com/hint.php

is NOT designed by JC. They state "Power amp circuit topology designed by legendary John Curl." Meaning, they took what JC did for other amps and adapted it.

Still a very nice Integrated!


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bubba12
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I'm surprised more people don't use the same thought process. I use the JC-1's with the JC-2 because it just seemed to be the smart thing to do. Lol. Surprisingly they work well together. 
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georgehifi
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The most important section of the Halo Integrated, is the poweramp section, this is directly taken from the A21 23 with slightly less rail voltage which is JC design.
The rest of the integrated is a dac, phono stage, input switching and preamp gain stage is Parasound design.

Cheers George  
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stringreen
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I have long advocated having a single manufacture provide all the components...  You can be assured that they all work to their best. 
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