IMO,
Millions of records were made without digital that sound perfectly great. I would not dispute that digital is cleaner, however the average listener would not notice the difference at all. One has to ask themselves, who are they recording for, the average listener or a recording expert to judge. To me it is not night and day. It's more like late evening to night.

I think sometimes now with all this new and improved technology, we get way overly invloved in tweeking and perfection. Somewhere in all that, I think the music gets lost and the pure joy of making it and putting out a very acceptable cut.
jam on,
Terry