can i recreate the sound of vinyl by encoding the vinyl frequencies onto digital audio?

Cakyol, pops, crackles, clicks, and rumble occur at frequencies well below 20kHz, the standard upper boundary of human audibility where the vast majority of us don’t hear. Well done Hi-Rez digital gets you more information in the audible range, ideally., Thereby approaching the fidelity of very high quality vinyl reproduction. For some, Hi-Rez digital exceeds very high-quality vinyl in that regard. All of that is a matter of opinion and the subject of an argument in which I do not engage.

Lew here.  Sam, who is "not a troll" has been successful despite his near illiteracy in starting another useless vinyl vs digital argument.  Maybe that was his goal. Sam, in the world of science or even in the world of polemics, you need to state your experimental conditions, the equipment you use, the methods, and the data that you think allows you to claim such complete success.  That would require a couple of pages of writing with charts and graphs.  Maybe you can post that information somewhere else and provide a URL. If you're really only saying that you make vinyl to digital recordings, as Mapman and others have mentioned, and you think the results are identical to the vinyl source, join the club.  Lots of people think that.  Lots of people do that. There's a minor industry built around that belief and preference. (See Tascam, for example). You were not the first.  You did not invent the idea, even.  You can even find entire websites devoted to this sort of mental masturbation. If that's not what you are saying, what then?

Lew here.  I'm with Mike.