@clearthinker. The page that we are looking at here has been smashed into loads of tiny little packets of data and put back together again.
Also, there is an underlying implication in your posts that it is digital alone that has insurmountable problems. Two observations on that:
First - Digital audio has been massively improved over the decades and the issues you refer to such as clocking accuracy have been commensurately improved.
Secondly, it's not as if there aren't fundamental problems with vinyl reply including warped and off centre record pressings, noise of various kinds, limited channel separation of phono cartridges, tracking distortion etc. That is aside from the fact that many pressings are of poor quality and that audio quality declines progressively as pressing runs extend.
There is no perfect medium for audio recording and reproduction, but thanks to the efforts of scientists and engineers both digital and analogue are improving. In both cases, at the state of the art level incremental, improvements are very expensive.
Just for context, my vinyl system consists of a Clearaudio Innovation TT/Univeral Tonearm, VdH Crimson Cartridge and Passlabs XP27 phono stage - so I am not anti-analogue/vinyl.