The thing that detractors of analog tend to forget...is that the analog signal is capable of millionth of second (and far better) accuracy in temporal timing between the two different channels.
we hear through two ears and we hear complex harmonics.
this millionth of a second accuracy is within the capacities of even a small 30hz-15khz (-3db) 50 year old tube tube amplifier. throughout all of it's frequency ranges and in the scope of complex stacked and interleaved harmonic structures.
We listen with both ears, to form the stereo image, not one ear, and one speaker and one channel.
A digital system would have to sample at 2+million samples per second to even come close to that.
With a theoretically perfect zero jitter response, which is in practicality --impossible.
I tried to explain this to people back in the early 90's. No-one was listening.
People are finally getting it.
LP's for example, are so temporally accurate with the placement of inter-channel structures, that a stereo digital system would have to sample at over 7 million samples per second, with no jitter at all..to begin to equal it.
edit; and when you decouple the two given digital channels with seperate clocks..this creates tremendous amounts of micro level noise or hash, where the two channels do not agree with one another in the inter channel micro domain. Thus you damage the very tiny little bits that you spent all that extra money trying to chase down. separate dacs with completely separate boxes per channel is a disaster. don't ever do it. the result is mud, the opposite of micro precision and sweetness.
. recording engineers are familiar with this problem which is why they have master clocks with 5-10-20 outputs to slave their processors together.
