Analogue warmth

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There’s no doubt that digital has come a long way.....but adding artefacts to digital recording to try and emulate some imagined distortions in analog is IMO travelling down the wrong road. What we need to do is to find better alternatives to all the digital processing that currently robs digitally processed music of its warmth.

The distortions that cause "warmth" in analog recordings are real, not imaginary. It's hard to argue with the fact that digital recording methods are objectively more accurate (in the sense of reproducing the original signal) than analogue, as f1eng pointed out above. So it's not the case that digital processing "robs...music of its warmth", rather that analog methods add it in the form of euphonic distortion.

Whether you prefer the warmth caused by such distortion is a personal and subjective matter - it seems that you do, which is fine by me so long as you accept that others have different preferences and neither is right or wrong. Whether it's a good thing to use DSP to emulate analog distortion is a different matter again - fair game, I say, if it helps the engineer achieve the sound he or she is looking for.