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 :-)
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Other than you, who has made this claim? You’re suggesting that an LP can hold more data than a CD. That simply isn’t even remotely true.
It’s the mechanical aspects of the LP’s capacity to hold transient phase coherence, timing coherence of the same, across the two channels.

Since this is deeply connected to how the ear works, it tends to be fundamentally important. To the ear. if you look at how the ear works, this little bit of a point becomes critical.

If one wants to equal the inter channel timing of transients and phase coherence that an LP is capable of, the minimum is an approximate 7 million sample per second rate, at about a minimum of 20 bits of depth and with absolutely zero jitter in dc to lightspeed bandwidth. This was known and spoken of in the early 90’s. Odd that it is somehow forgotten or not mentioned.

Look at the whole question and answer set. Math is nice and is a great descriptor of things, as a tool or what not. But it cannot do anything in being a tool unless the tool user is equipped with the correct questions and the math is shaped well enough to be useful in those calculations. In other words one has to have to have the right question in front of them. Most folks don’t. Thus the circular arguments.

eg, if one thinks that this spec is not important as it is swamped by noise, wow and flutter, etc, one might remind them that the world’s finest FFT and intelligent filtering system known, is built right into them. The human body creates an incredible amount of noise for the ear. The ear/brain system filters this out. So much so we are not consciously aware of this huge wobbly and insanely polluted noise floor inside our own hearing.

The ear as being dumb and the instrument and math smarter, more capable? It would be difficult to be more wrong, if one said or thought such a thing.
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If one wants to equal the inter channel timing of transients and phase coherence that an LP is capable of, the minimum is an appoximate 7 million sample per second rate, at about a minimum of 20 bits of depth and with absolutely zero jitter in dc to lightspeed bandwidth. This was known and spoken of in the early 90’s. Odd that it is somehow forgotten or not mentioned.
This is just silly. Were it true, you could fit the entire Godfather film series on a single LP side.
Cleeds & others here point to the issues of the "evidence" presented by the question. The virtues of analog are an inconvenient truth for those not at all prepared to do genuine comparative testing & do not trust or have developed their intuition to properly & deeply do so. I'm always a little surprised to almost never encounter any reference to the top (or really any other) audio reviewers when sound quality is discussed in AG forums. Valin (perhaps the most respected) of Ab Sound has said digital can sound excellent but is no match for analog as far as low-level information is concerned in numerous areas.
It's like not trusting your eyes to evaluate Art & needing scientific tests to verify what you think you see - or want to. Anyone who claims the long discredited history of putting science before listening is miraculously been overturned will always try to falsely claim they've found data that "proves" their point.
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From a proud U.S. citizen.

You think that’s bad? You should see what goes on in U.S. between the many different cultures that make-up this great land.
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To stay on topic,
What sounds good? What sounds best?
What’s the best way to reproduce music?
It’s all a matter of opinion and we’re all entitled to our opinions.
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And then there was MP3, which was a hijacked technology that removed 90% of the information afforded by 16/44 and yet most people couldn't even tell the difference, let alone care. Convenience mattered. Transfer over the internet mattered. Free music mattered. In the end did it damage the music industry? Vinyl is on the rise, albeit a very small fraction of the total sales. CDs will make a comeback too.