Some tables have soul and some not


Why is that? Do you think it is always very subjective?
Say, Nottingham Spacedeck does have it and SME does not even if in some respects SME can be called a better or depending on model much better table.
Thoughts, opinions, name callings ?
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In a recent interview, Frank Kuzma had a Q&A exchange in the following:

Q: "Is there a place for mystics in audio or simply good and great engineering?"

A: "Well, we still do not know why Stradivarius violins sound superb - is that mysticism or just forgotten great engineering."

Maybe all this talk about turntable with "soul" is just good and/or bad engineering that people forgot to talk about.

Ok, I'm done.

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Atheism is a religion too, if you know what I mean.
Both BMW and Lexus are good engineering, but the former usually has soul and the latter has not. Mercedes is somewhere in between. Same with Hi-Fi, probably even more complex. Good engineering doesn't hurt, true.