Phil Collins - Seriously Live

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Originally Posted by KentTeffeteller

VHS HiFi is analog, it is not digital. And is superior to linear audio tracks, especially when there's two channels crammed into the space of one. And some analog is better than others. Not all digital is junk. Not all analog is superior. Depends on a case by case basis.

100% correct! Digital, done right, sounds pretty transparent. If digital sounds bad, it's bad mastering or a bad recording. I suspect people who swear by analog like the distortion and maybe noise / hiss. These might be so low that you don't realize it's there. I suspect if you took an analog recording and digitized it to red book standards (not brickwalled), then played both back at the same time with matched levels, the person probably would not be able to tell the difference.