Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?

When asked about the LP, Rudy Van Gelder, who gained fame for recording: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, and many others on Blue Note, replied, "Good riddance". That tells me something.

Once the original signal goes to the mic, accuracy is lost, engineer twiddling on the eq also departs from accuracy. So the question should be..... what screws up the signal less, digital or analog. The high rez digital I have heard recently equalled the best analog I have heard and exceed lesser analog by a good margin. The best is the one which uses the best mic and has the least recording engineer editoralizing. Both digital and analog can be great, but will the engineer allow it?....jallen

Great post by Jallen. Kudos on that one.

Vinyl has presence, you are there, something digital needs to improve on.

To me, "more accurate" and "better sounding" are the same thing.

In both cases, the best analogue I've heard still beats the best digital I've heard - although the gap is narrowing year by year.