I go regularly to concerts of un-amplified music. I don't regard that a home music system is good because "I like it." I regard it as good only to the extent that it reproduces acoustic music in real space as close as possible to what I hear at an acoustic musical event.
You obviously listen to a great deal of home music through an analog system or systems. Compared to others therefore you. like me, are listening to a great deal of measurable distortion (certainly more than in good digital) and yet we may very well find that the analog music we hear at home is our best possible representation of an actual musical event, clicks and pops notwithstanding. I, for one, am not concerned at all if some alleged "scientist" measures or does not measure a great deal of distortion in my system.
So it may be with the Viv. If it makes records sound like the real thing, I would be unconcerned with anyone's measurements of it. That may make owners of conventional arms uneasy. I have a conventional arm. I am not uneasy.