Harvard newspaper article on Analog vs. Digital

Matter of taste.  Surface noise on vinyl is not for me.  I'm not sure how it makes performance more natural since there is no surface noise at the live performance.

Well, he has whole chapter on surface noise.  Ambient noise in the recording will be the same for digital and analog.  Same goes for microphone noise.  

teo_audio  He is not talking about digital vs. analog in general but about particular difference - the lack of noise in digital.  I'm not sure if it is a tape hiss or surface noise but, according to him, it suppose to improve reception of music.  It suggests that adding noise to live acoustic performance in very quiet place, would improve it.