Thiel Owners

jafant is clearly someone who works in mediation, conflict resolution, marriage counseling, or a college professor.  Or fears discord in his 150 page thread!  It's all good.

Makes me satisfied that Steve McCormack thoroughly modified his already-stable power amplifier to meet the needs of my CS2.3, now using the slightly easier load of 2.4s, and can confirm it has great specs into load in stock form, much better specs now as confirmed by the designer, and sounds great driving them to my own ears, as well as besting 5 other $5-15k modern amplifiers in a all-day shootout last year!  I wish this were so for all Thiel owners (not only those in this forum).

I’ve now twice mated an Ayre integrated with a Thiel. Been super happy both times. 
Interesting that being able to discern how an amp sounds from measurements is “objective”,  lol. 

Laughing harder, that you actually *are* in conflict resolution and counseling without my knowing a thing about you!  Goes to show what I pick up on when my wife's a therapist, my neighbor a professional mediator, my father a (former) college professor...

Steve has been a 2-man show running SMC Audio for years since Conrad Johnson took over McCormack production for a few years before dropping it entirely.  So Steve's 'second' career is redesigning and optimizing his 'first career' mainstream amps to demanding customers (like me), and has all the test gear from a lifetime in the business.  I can't speak directly to C-J, but not many amp manufacturers see the relevance of 1 ohm specs, especially when there's nothing flattering about the power output into it for 95% of amps, especially a company whose foundation is tube amps.  All Steve McCormack's testing does is confirm his amps (or at least *my* SMC Audio amp) will remain fully stable into 1 ohm, not oscillate, melt, or blow up.  In fact, my tiny 'signature' box in the upper left is this amp...