Let them believe it so they can keep getting sub-par recordings lmao.

Slate's cool and all but it's replications always sound like relatively poor mimics of what it is trying to copy. The reason really comes down to math and how analog works.

When you perform any form of manipulation on a data set (in this case an audiowave) the extent of noise that gets introduced almost entirely depends on its resolution. Analog signals theoretically have infinite resolution, so they take electronic transformation really well without sounding cheap, whereas, there's only so much manipulation you can do to a digital file because it is inherently compressed, thus too much manipulation results in too much distortion.

This theory applies to lots of things. Photography is a great example. Take two identical photos, except one is low res and the other is high res. Apply the same filter to both of them (highlights, lighting adjustment, contrast, etc), and then compress them to the same size. Right away you will notice significant distortion in the lower res photo, yet, even after you compress both photos to the same size, the high res photo still possesses a more accurate image, because its data manipulations took place in the high resolution, thus minimizing distortion of the overall image.