without a doubt, I believe that if you do a digital recording right, it will sound just as good, if not better to some ears(because of S/N ratios i suppose) than analog. I'm certainly not an analog purest in any sense of the form. Hell i'm only 22 years old so technically I can't be...... didn't grow up in that period
However there are some things, IMHO, that will never sound as good recorded digitally as it would recorded on analog tape. Like an entire drum kit for example.
However, as we start bridging that 24/48-192 sampling rates we're starting to hear things that you couldn't hear on DAT and even things that you couldn't hear on tape.
Wayne
i just can't quite agree with you there. even at 24bit/192kHz, it's still a "repesentation" of the analog signals. if you hear anything on that digital recording that's not on the tape(using an ATR with an extended frequency response), then that is noise inherant from the digital recording as far as I'm concerned.