A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzRvSWPZQYk

There will still be some flat earthers who refuse to believe it....
Those should watch the video a second or third time :-)
cakyol

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It’s also interesting that in the end this video turned out to be an  ad for selling digital remastering software.  It makes me wonder why they would spend so much energy on discussing the limitations of vinyl.  Are they worried that customers will be wanting to remaster in analog instead?
On a more practical level, vinylistas don’t seem to care that most current lp issuues Of Classic albums use digital masters, due to the sticky tape phenomenon.  Vinyl bigots like Fremer and Dudley were embarrassingly silent on this after touting many of these releases only to have the remastering engineers spill the beans.  So if they prefer lps made from corrupt digital discontnous sampled waveforms, that preference must be based upon something completely unrelated to that waveform 
@stevecham 
who cares if the cutting head has to make a continuous path, if the the information contained in that path is from a discontnous waveform?  Vinylistas are reacting to some byproduct  of the whole vinyl reproduction chain that they identify as pleasurable, and the rest of us hear as artifactual or distortion.
  Vinylistas always are clamoring for digital systems that sound “analog like”.
Before I sold off my analog system, I tried to make it sound as non analog as possible.  I had a battery powered pre amp because it was quieter with darker backgrounds and I was fanatic about trying to improve speed stability, reduce surface noise, wow, flutter, you name it.  Eventually I decided this is crazy and will go 100% digital.