Analog audiophiles are literally just the same kind of people who judge the taste of wine by the price tag.

"I can hear the difference!" They keep saying despite falling for a dozen different "analog only" vinyl companies that use digital somewhere cause its literally just objectively more efficient and indistinguishable.

They recently sued one of these companies who invented a process that makes less vinyls for more money, but has less in-between steps between master and finished vinyl. Then it turned out they actually made a digital recording of the master tapes because otherwise they were gonna start harming them due to fucking with them all the time.

But no, this ruined their value, both due to using digital and cause it meant that the supply wasn't going to be limited by the tapes disintegrating eventually.