About sharper, smoother, harsher, closer, etc...
In my opinion:
The shaver needs to be as much in tune with his edge, as his edge needs to be in tune with his skin.
"Shaveready" means to me that an edge is keen enough to cut, without pulling or hanging up on the whiskers. If you shave long enough with a particular type of shaveready edge, your technique will automatically adapt to the most efficient way to use that type of edge. Granted, your beard and skin type will have their saying too, but small nuances in applied presure, angles, scything motions, stetching tactics, and other variables will greatly contibute to the end result and can be quite different when you alter the type of razor, and the way the edge was sharpened.
In that respect, edge preferences are always a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Bart.