Funny how streaming/digital still chases that analog benchmark.

No analogue music company brags about how digital their product sounds. They just don’t.

it isn’t because analog or digital is better... music IS analog by its fundamental nature

analog as in "not digitized"... not analog as in "in a record groove" (which may sound nice, but has its own distortion, noise and compression, not to mention it has usually been digitized in getting there)

proper distinctions are important, enough conflation in our world as it is...

Indeed, Audio2.

Where bit depth is 16 bit, that’s 65,536 amplitude values in every sample.  If you were to try and get the same number of amplitude values in a vinyl groove you would fail, because the molecules are too large. Divide the depth of the groove by 65,536 and the result is smaller than a vinyl molecule.  A pure diamond LP, perfectly cut, might just enable 16 bit in theory. 
Vinyl can be cut to an equivalent of about 10 or 12 bit.   Which is one reason the noise floor is higher for vinyl. 

Easy to see who the posers and the vipers are. 

Checking out your old thread skypunk?