I think the folks around here will trust the designer that not only measures but listens as well. You still offer only speculation. If you want to give it a shot I'll sell you a NX-Otica kit and you can see if your speculation holds true over what I have measured and heard. Then you and try it for yourself.
And again there is a lot you are not taking into account. I covered most of it already and have tried to explain it to you but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
When Bill Johnson of Audio Research Corp. was still alive he would make appearances at ARC dealer's shops to talk about his products with those shop's clientele. At one such appearance I attended, Bill told a story I find appropriate to repeat here. In the late 70's Bill sent a new model pre-amp to Harry Pearson of The Absolute Sound magazine for a review, and soon heard back from Harry, who told him the pre-amp was defective. Bill asked him to send the pre-amp back, he would take a look at it. Upon it's return he did just that, and found the pre-amp to be working fine. Bill called Harry to investigate the matter, and learned that Pearson had in preparation for evaluating the pre-amp utilized a new tweak spreading through the high end, the shorting plug. A shorting plug is a regular ol' RCA plug that has had it's hot and ground legs soldered together; when inserted into an unused input jack, it shorts that input to ground, thereby preventing any noise from entering the pre-amp through that unused input. A good idea, one I use to this day. But Harry, lacking even the most basic electronic knowledge, had inserted shorting plugs into the pre-amps unused OUTPUT jacks! Uh, yeah, that will make a pre-amp act "defective" alright!
The moral of this story obviously being, a little knowledge is, as the old expression goes, a dangerous thing. Professional audio designers have always used measurements to evaluate the basic correctness of a circuit, cross-over, driver's frequency response, whatever. That's not the end of the design process, but no professional designer does so without taking many, many measurements. The educated ear is the final arbitrator, but the notion of the irrelevance of technical measurements to the sound quality of an audio product is one created by subjective reviewers like Harry Pearson. The "real" audio critic J. Gordon Holt, founder/owner/reviewer of Stereophile Magazine, being a trained electronic engineer, used measurements regularly in his reviews. Stereophiles current editor, John Atkinson, continues to do so. Gordon, unlike all the other professional reviewers in the U.S. in the 1960's, also listened at length to the device under review, and described it's sound character and quality to his readers. He single-handedly created subjective reviewing, and Harry Pearson and his Absolute Sound Magazine single-handedly destroyed it's credibility. End of history lesson, and of story with a moral, one I believe not lost on y'all
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