I know what you're thinking, "this debate again?". Well it's been around since the dawn of digital recording back in the early 1980s. Is analog better than digital or vice versa? Well to simplify things, for the price you pay for a digital recording, paying the same price for an analog recording may not get you better results. On the other hand the quality threshold for analog is much higher than digital. The more money you pump into an analog recording the better it will sound, digital does not have this luxury. Same goes for vinyl equipment vs CD equipment. Vinyl equipment will sound better than CD equipment at their maximum spending thresholds.
So what's the big deal about analog? Simple it captures everything perfectly. When you record digitally, it only captures frames of the waveform, but not the entire waveform. Many will say FLAC can compare to a Vinyl, but the truth is FLAC can only compare to CD which doesn't even begin to compare to Vinyl. The only things that make digital better than analog are this:
1. It's easier to record digitally, analog makes it a long tedious process if you make mistakes frequently.
2. Digital recordings do not degrade over time, analog tape reels and vinyl records wear away over the years and playback degrades them further.
3. Digital recordings weigh nothing, analog recordings weigh in the lbs.
These three things give digital it's own inviting quality, but no matter what, analog will always sound better than digital. There is no contest.
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