In regards to sampling, not necessarily if the right material is itemized, you can get the sound you're looking for if what you're sampling is/has that sound.
that's cool if you think so I totally disagree
every evolution and new iteration of digital music storage formats has involved a listening hurdle to real audio heads because they hear the loss of weight and dimension in sound. from the first cd's pressed to all the early digital storage formats before lossless there's been a constant quest to get it right but it never is 100 the same and it physically can't be. what happens more often is we actually adapt to the change in sound but newer listeners more than old heads because they don't know what's missing
it was nikkaz who still swore by vinyl and 8 track tapes when we were coming up with cd's and cassette tapes... they could hear the characteristics we miss. how sound is recorded, mastered and played back all have a role in that "sound"
you can take a fire sample and choke the life out of it with digital degradation as often happens with digital samplers and unlike with analogue samplers it's not a desirable kind of degradation it's harsh. for example the first half of the cure on Kings Disease when hit sped up that sample it sounds harsh because of whatever digital sampler he's using algorithm. sped up samples sound way better on hard samplers the sound degradation is actually pleasant