So, I think this is an important myth to get over...
Well that seems a kinda "biased" approach :)
Whenever anybody says that "Max sounds smoother than Pd" (or viceversa of course) we should force him to answer these three questions:
- define "smoother", what the hell does it mean (is it less
clicks/pops? is it less dropouts? or what else?)
are you comparing with the same hardware?
Let me see the patches (ok this is not a question - this is a demand,
lol)
If he/she cannot provide these data, we should force him/her to apologize for what s/he said - not because it is false but because it doesn't mean anything :)
We could speculate a lot about why a person may think Max sound smoother than Pd and be wrong, or about why Max may actually sound smoother than Pd and "be wrong" (e.g. what-you-get-is-not-just-what-you-did), OR why Max may actually and surprisingly sound smoother than Pd "for a good reason" (do we really know every detail to the last bit of any given sample of a sinusoid?)... But that would be only speculation until we know what we are talking about.