No doubt but we have rather different knowledge bases on which to reason about how audio works which is likely to lead to drawing rather different conclusions.I took something different from your post.
I was refraining from stating what I really think about people like John Curl in order to maintain a civil tone and because he is a person putting his audiophile trade/reputation on the line to some extent whereas I am semi-anonymous non-audiophile chatting on an audiophile forum with nothing much to lose or gain. I have refrained from comment/speculation about the chap from Onix for similar reasons although I am intrigued to know what is going on and whether what I suspect happened in the past did. A topic for conversation over beer but not archived posts on a forum.