Yes they do bub. Its just obscured by the other flaws in your system.

You used to say the linn was as close to perfect as possible for a tunrtable - with the "ninja mods" (essentially J at mana writing his name on the chassis after a glass or two) - using exactly the same arguments. Look how that ended up.

The ATC sound is distorted. You just like the distortion. All speakers distort - ATC are better than most in some ways but until you hear something better - as when you compared the sme to the hallowed linn ninja...