I don't want to be rude, but to me it's similar to saying "Bud sucks, Coors rule".
It does not really help others making an opinion.
Perhaps I'm too much a quibbler nitpicker engineer and not enough a salesman politician TV expert artist, but this kind of assertion should be backed by comparative audio abstracts. Or a demonstration of the superior workflow.
It's actually like saying, digital works well, but he prefers analog. He didn't say digital sucks.
Some people love digital painting, but it lacks something in a lot of people's opinions, including mine. And you know what, opinions are worth something.
Abbey, you have an inflated sense of your abilities when it comes to engineering and music making. You are definitely on the rude side, and I don't mind saying it. As is JR and a few others here. Inflated egos with a sense of your place here as some kind of rulers of the audio design field, at least here on groupdiy.
For some, audio design is both art and science, not one or the other. Back off with the who's right or wrong, or calling people phools, or claiming everything has to be backed up by a flow chart. I've tried THAT 1510/1512 chips as mic preamps up against a Neve 1073 and I didn't need a diagram to tell me which one sounded better to my ear. Does the THAT chip work? Yeah. Does it have good specs? Yeah. Does it leave me feeling like it lacks something? Definitely.
Even within digital realms there are some plugins that are good, some notsogood. It is backed up by the valuable opinions of the people who make the music. In 3d rendering, there are good rendering engines, and then there are notsogood rendering engines. Some of this is just the amount of resources, some of it is the people who made the engines to begin with. They just don't get it.
I have a lot of appreciation for those who made products within tight budgets and made them available to the masses. They served a good function and allowed a lot of people to get stuff done. The basic rendering engines are not sports cars. A Peavey or Soundcraft is no Neve.
You can't compare Chevettes to Corvettes, or to Ferraris. It just doesn't work. Some stuff is just better.
Adam