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...
