Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

The reason vinyl sounds better is the instrument timbre and the interaction of them. There is no electronic tool for measuring this. Regardless of the format, albums recorded with instruments played separately have a similar problem - lacking vitality and authenticity bc those of us used to live performance miss these musical interactions. Modern digital sampling helps (often with better mastering and mixing) a lot but compared to old digital sampling vinyl is astounding - there is zero contest.

Direct stream w/ SB2 vs RPM3 with EVO III through a gold note PH-10 > my DAC is theoretically better than the phono including better cables.

For me to compare vynil vs digital it will never end, But with a train good ears and who knows music for the most part they will prefer vynil.The soul of music of vynil it’s hard to accomplish on digital. Again I love both format , that’s why I have both.

You are right. There is no electronic tool to measure something that does not exist. 

There is no electronic tool for measuring this.

Timbre definitely exists... it’s why one guitar sounds different than another. Why nylon strings sound different than steel. 
Audio2design is a fool arguing with facts like a homeless person yelling at a street sign. 

The problem in assessing the alleged superiority of analog over digital or the contrary is simple to formulate:

Human hearings evaluation of an analog or digital format, in a specific room and in a specific electrical grid, is more impacted, unbeknownst to most, by the embeddings of the audio system, than by the analog or digital format itself most of the times...

The more important clue of a good S.Q. is the evalution of the naturalness of instrumental timbre...

But the experience of timbre in listening is influenced and conditioned by the mechanical, electrical and mainly acoustical embeddings of the audio system at least on par with the particular format to be evaluated...( without speaking of the specific hearing apparatus of any subject)

Then all those who pledge for an absolute superioriy of the vinyl over digital in ALL cases are going too far, over estimating their experience, which would be different in different embeddings or with different electronic components...

All those who pledge for an absolute superiority of digital over analog in all cases are similarly going too far for the same reasons...

The perception of timbre is one of the most complex matter in all acoustic pertaining to too many sciences to enumerate them...Linguistic, music, neurology and physics, mathematics and engineering being only the main one...

The complete description of the factors playing a role in the perception of timbre cannot be reduced to only digitalization method... The humain brain and his direct relation to the acoustic settings of his environment ask and solicit at the same times analog and digital functions, receptors and motors functions...

Then no single experience can establish the absolute superiority of a format....

The perception of a tone and his colored variation in time, timing with other colored tones or timbres, in a specific room, is a subjective phenomenon also; pretending in the absolute to reduce it to digitalization is only collapsing all the sciences and human experience implicated here in a engineering absolute pretense which at the end is only that: a pretense ignoring all that contradict it....

Pretending that vinyl is always and will be always superior, pertain to an illusion also, but a different one...One cannot extrapolate one experience to all other possible experience.....

Happy New Year....