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Dear @intactaudio : Seems that your post is more a one to hit me than to enhance the issue under discussion.

" for someone who insists on 0.1dB riaa accuracy for hi-fi, you sure seem to have a very loose definition of the word "significant" "

You can’t compare what significance has the eq. RIAA against a tonearm tracking error. Everything the same you can’t detect/aware of a 0.1° tracking distortion or the difference at most inner groove of only 0.01° tracking error.

"" I do not believe the "weighted" distortion measurements derived from the formulas is actually representative of the sonic penalty angular mistracking error can cause. ""

That’s only a " believe " that means almost nothing. Why not try to modeling the issue and come back with your certainty conslusions and in this way all of us can learn about.

" I generally trust arguments formulated from the listening chair "

That’s a subjective " anecdotic " opinion that can’t prove nothing for other people with different ears and different systems. Yes , maybe measures do not say all what is happening down there but always are facts and not " believes ". Remember that ears is a way limited " tool " that is didifferent in any human been.

R.

@mijostyn "Humans are entirely incapable quantifying what they hear. More than likely whatever they think looks better, sounds better". 

I have to refute this statement, being influenced by the Earliest of the London Punk Scene.

I can assure the worse it was looking, the better it sounded.  

Strangely I also remember Peoples Vomit in a Mosh Pit had an appealing aroma as well, back in these days 🤐. 

I lived in Camden 1976-1977, and between The Hippodrome/Camden Palace/KoKo and Dingwall and on up to the Roundhouse there was lots to slip up on adorning the sidewalks (or pavements as we Brits call them)! Or was Peoples Vomit a punk band I missed?

If you took all the conflicting, but earnestly put forth generalizations from learned persons, in this thread and put them in a closed container and shook the container up, you'd have one heck of an explosion.

@pindac +1  Excellent counterpoint!