To be clear, I'm not arguing vinyl is a superior format, personally I strongly believe a humble (and typical) 16bit 44.1 KHz "consumer cd" type ready for delive

To be clear, I'm not arguing vinyl is a superior format, personally I strongly believe a humble (and typical) 16bit 44.1 KHz "consumer cd" type ready for delivery digital file is for 99.9% of listener use cases completely fine, and in any case far superior over any practical analog medium including vinyl. This is why I added "perceived" to the supposed technical advantages of vinyl. From the audio quality point of view, to me there is no point to using vinyl even if the chain is fully analog. It's just a funny thought to me that whatever claims of analog superiority (however fake or misguided they may be) are undone anyway by the digital part of the chain.