Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?

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.

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***Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?****

Good question.
Fun question.
Misplaced question?

My vinyl front end sounds more musical and is more satisfying than my digital set up. The answer to this question is a personal one each of us has to make. My advice is to be an artist as you set up your front end. Digital or vinyl. That is...set it up with passion and follow what pleases you. Most of don't have unlimited financial resources and their are extremely musical systems to be created at all prices levels irregardless of format. This will sound weird but instinctively it comes to me as being true. The sound of plastic, ie vinyl, imparts a beautiful tone to the music recorded onto it. Because materials have to do with resonances and real instruments are materials vibrating, i believe it to have a inherent sonic advantage because of this and possible downfall if pops and ticks drive you crazy. For the most part and i know they're are always exceptions, vinyl sounds just a little bit more "human" to me than does digital. Therefore in a democratic audiophile world i would vote that vinyl is "more accurate". I might be wrong about this but this is where my journey has led me thus far.

Cheers...