Help me understand compliance!

Perhaps you will indulge me a little poetic license.  I assure you this is pertinent, not crazy stuff.  A person says something that is totally outrageous.  A listener accepts the message at face value without reservation.  That is compliance.  Second scenario:  A person says something that is factual and provable.  A listener rejects the message resolutely and without qualification.  That is non-compliance.  As applied to phono playback, any given cartridge/arm combination traces a record groove.  Does it comply?  How well?  What do you hear?  Clues that the combination is not fully complying with the requirements would be sibilance and similar forms of unnatural sound.  The violin, human voice, and piano are three extraordinarily difficult instruments to accurately record and reproduce.

As one engineer to another we can communicate with each other in technical terms and understand each other.  The great beauty of science. In layman's terms my explanation of the matter has left you with an inability to track my thought process.  We need to increase your compliance to see this philosophically.  :-)  Not everybody as the scientific method at their fingertips.