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Review. Awards & Recognition Hi‑Fi News — Outstanding Product. (2018) SoundStage! Hi‑Fi — Reviewers’ Choice. (2019) Home Theater Review — Best of 2018.the JC5 into your system and the room changes. Bass hits deeper without bloat, vocals float free of the speakers, and big crescendos stay calm and composed—power with finesse that makes everything feel more alive. Designed by John Curl, the JC5 focuses on what matters: high‑bias Class A/AB with the first 12 W in pure Class A, 400 W x2 into 8 Ω (600 W x2 into 4 Ω), a 1.7 kVA toroidal transformer with 132,000 µF of storage, and 90 A peak current with safe handling of 1.5‑Ω impedance dips. Praised by reviewers “By any measure, the Halo JC 5 is a superb power amplifier.” — SoundStage! Hi‑Fi. “A well‑mannered big amplifier… capable of handling dips down to 1.5 Ω.” — Hi‑Fi News. “A stunning performer with great musicality and none of the sterility of more analytical amps.” — Home Theater

400 watts x 2 @ 8 Ω RMS, both channels driven

600 watts x 2 @ 4 Ω RMS, both channels driven

1200 watts x 1@ 8 Ω, in bridged mode

Circuitry designed by legendary John Curl Ultra-high bias Class A/AB operation 12 watts per channel of pure Class A power 90 amperes peak current per channel Stable with speaker impedance dips to 1.5 Ω Balanced inputs with discrete circuits CHK Infinium, custom 5-way speaker binding posts Neutrik locking XLR input connectors Vampire gold-plated RCA input & loop output jacks Direct-coupled signal path, no capacitors or inductors DC Servo and relay protection circuits AC turn-on inrush surge protection with relay bypass Dual-mono input stages with ±110 volt DC rails JFET input stage, MOSFET driver stage 24 beta-matched 15 ampere, 60 MHz bipolar output transistors 1.7 kVA shielded toroid power transformer with independent windings for each channel Independent power supplies for left & right channel input stages, driver stages, output stages 8,880 µF Nichicon Gold Tune filter capacitors for input stages 132,000 µF Rubycon filter capacitors for output stages Full power is rated all the way down to 5Hz for unrestricted low-end bass Harris hyper-fast soft-recovery bridge diode rectifiers Automatic turn-on by 12 V trigger or audio sensing 4 rack space chassis with rear carry handles Rack mount hardware is included