60d Producing Soft Images

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He said "Those settings ARE applied..." stressing the word are which means to me he is contradicting what i said...

That is whats referred to as being "taken out of context." You did not finish reading the entire sentence before trying to comprehend what it said. His sentence was "Those settings are applied to the JPEG Basic that is embedded in the Raw file." Which does not mean that it is APPLIED to the RAW and then displayed upon opening. It is applied to the JPEG Basic data that is embedded into the RAW file. Just like you can create a DNG file that has all of the original RAW file intact inside of the file still. That way if you WANT the RAW file, with the right software, you can dig it out of the file. Files contain tons of data, not every little bit is displayed. Think of Metadata for an example. When I open my RAW file, do I see "1/100 F/5.6 50mm Flash did not fire" plastered across my image? No. That is because that portion of data is not displayed in the image.