the A class amplifiers faithfully follow the sound waves..
the cutting needle faithfully follows the sound waves...
the grooves in the record faithfully follow the soundwaves..
the needle on the record faithfully follow the soundwaves..
the speakers faithfully follow the sound waves...
the soundwaves faithfully follow the soundwaves...
Even with a crackle and pop, you are hearing the real thing...you hear betweeen the noise..
You are there...
You missed the point of vinyl, which is that the inaccuracy sounds good. Digital inaccuracy, like what you get out of most crappy builtin DACs, doesn't sound good. If you have to have inaccuracy, which you do, vinyl folks prefer the vinyl kind. It doesn't bring you closer to the original sound, it just sounds old, and old must be closer to the past, right? But it sounds better, so you are right to enjoy it.
(said this in another tree but: my understanding is CD sucks among digital formats, not necessarily vinyl rocks.)
For what it's worth, I am a member of a private music tracker and there are plenty of vinyl rips available. I've found that in many cases, the vinyl rips (which are digital files, by the way) sound better than the CD. This isn't because a) vinyl is better and b) CDs suck, it's because the CD masters in many cases compress the audio more and there's less dynamic range. Ironically, CDs have a lot more dynamic range than vinyl!