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

"Isn't that true for analog (vinyl in most of the above posts), too? It is an approximation, attempt to reproduce, the original event. "

The microphone to the recording system, what ever it maybe is an analog device. There are no steps, no divisions, or resolution with analog, but there is with digital. This is what I was pointing at. There is no Nyquist theorem, which based on an approximation. 

A recording will not be able to truly duplicate the original performance. But you can tell the difference between an analog original and a digital original. On the other hand, these days I am not sure you can really call the recording engineers produced in a trade school an engineer. Engineering schools are ABET accredited, are there any trade recording school that can meet the criteria? I don't know of any.

This is a much better read about the subject and about the limitations of science/engineer thinking:
https://www.stereophile.com/reference/23/index.html

Digital is like the fresh raw porterhouse steak in the movie The Fly that Jeff Goldblum teleported from one pod to the other. When the atoms of the steak were disassembled and then reassembled the porterhouse steak looked still like a real steak but when it was broiled and tasted it didn’t taste like a real steak 🥩. Yuk!

Pffft!....... I like digital....but I LOVE the sound of analogue vinyl.    Just to confirm my brain wasn't becoming digitized and overly clinical, I got out my old world atlas and sure enough....it was definitely FLAT.

Analogue is a 'real' copy of the sound impressions where Digital is merely coded ones and zeros read by a machine and sound is produced in the process.  There is no 'there' there with digital.  There are NO sonic impressions.  Just a digital program reading directions in binary code.  Zappa's Jazz From Hell album is a good example.  Brilliant and performed without any musicians.  Cold,. hard and exact.  But even that album becomes musical when the vinyl copy is played next to the digital. 

Flat-earthers indeed!  To those who prefer musicians to machines as music makers I think the analogue/digital divide needs to be judged by our ears, not another machine.  Those with the sensitivities to hear music will make the same choices and judgements and do not need to have a machine tell them what and how to 'hear'.  As Captain Beefheart put it, "How'd you get a name like Crazy Little Thing?"