New JP-2C owner here. S/N 000083. My local mom and pop chain is also a Boogie dealer. They got one JP-2C in when the amp was first released and it has sat unnoticed. Tiring of staring at it every day, they recently marked it down to $1899. I'd seen it in there before but paid it no mind at $2499. Now with the price drop I was interested enough to check it out. I'd seen and liked all of the videos John Petrucci had done. After walking it through it's basic paces I decided to pull the trigger. I've had it about a week and I am fine tuning it and finding more tones that I enjoy. After I played it for a bit I set the controls to the Petrucci settings in the manual I hated it. After tweaking it back to something I liked I ended back up where I started. Go figure. I am playing it through a Soldano 4x12 loaded with Celestion G12H30 70th Anniversary speakers.
I had a Mark IIC combo back in the late 80s / early 90s. It may have been a IIC+. I really can't recall. Full dress with the wood cabinet and cane grill. I do not recall it sounding this good. I can recall it being heavy as hell with that EV speaker. I also had a Caliber .22 combo at some point in the 1990s. Cute little amp I took in on a trade but I didn't keep it long. That's my past experience with Boogie ownership. I like Boogie amps but cannot say that I have ever really loved them. I have been a Marshall kind of guy for decades. I like this one way more than the ones I have owned and played before and may end up loving it eventually. I'll probably never love it as much as my Soldano but that's a horse of a different color. I tried to upload a pic but I haven't the patience to deal with Photobucket.