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We may infer from these graphs that the Nikon images benefit more from the post processing, but get that now familiar (and not always pleaseant) digital look, where the Leica images are more closely related to the classical film look and here the sharpening effect is less pronounced.
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You know, I've been evaluating images lately from camera's without AA filters, including the S2 and digital backs. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that while the non-AA images are sharper without post-processing, they actually look more 'digital' than AA-filtered images, not less. To me there's nothing film-like about color aliasing, edge-aliasing, or moire. The latter two go down as resolution goes up, but I find even the faintest hint of color aliasing very objectionable. So I'm beginning to think that skipping the AA filter may be preferable to having a poor AA filter that filters too much, a well-designed AA filter is preferable to not having one at all, at least for color.
His comment about the D3x images looking 'digital' after sharpening makes me question his sharpening workflow. With a good deconvolution-based sharpening routine, the results can be very film-like as long as you don't oversharpening. I'm finding images from the D3x to be more film-like than any other DSLR I've seen, going back at least as far as the D2x.
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Stunning as the M9 pictures are, they must be put in context and then the Nikon D3x images are just better.
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That's gotta sting for some of the leica-philes.
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