Vinyl

This is a common statement from many in the music industry when it came to digital. The fact remains that digital should be the best way to record something in the studio, as a matter of fact I would say at least 85% of all studio recordings are digital. As well what we hear afterwards is a total dogs breakfast when it comes to digital and the media of choice, the CD. 

For sure the downstream mastering and engineer is the problem.

As well I have read interviews and YouTube videos where mastering engineers like Bernie Grundman will state that analog recording is the best sounding period. And he has a much longer history that RVG does.

When RVG was cutting all those classic BlueNote records back in the late 50s to 60s, his main problem with vinyl was that the playback equipment from that era could not handle the dynamics and frequency of the recordings. Tonearms and cartridges could not play some of that music so he had to back off on the bass as well push treble some, if not needles were jumping out of the grooves.

Today's turntable technology and cartridge designs are light years better and can easily handle what he recorded, this is why you now have Kevin Gray remastering all the BlueNote catalog from the original tapes and not having to cut any low end, he has gone on record saying he is able to cut what is actually on the tape, so what we now hear is much closer to what RVG was recording in studio.

As far as vinyl was never any good is clearly an embellished comment IMO, if it was it would have fully disappeared in 1985....It is the one media that can handle more frequency than we can actually hear, low end down to 7Hz and upper end to over 50KHz, the CD cannot do this. That's all that needs to be said...buy and listen to what you like.