glupson,
What it means, I suspect (and from what I've read, and though many may protest) is simply that the vinyl sound can be captured by digital. Which makes sense to me.
I don't do needle drop recordings for various reasons. My system isn't set up for it. But I have no desire. If I'm listening to vinyl, I want the whole experience. I also have left over mental aversions to digitizing my analog front end signal....those audiophile genes kicking in. I just like the division between fully analog and digital sources. If I sent everything through a digital converter it could actually make my life easier as it opens everything up to using digital room correction (though, frankly as my system stands I don't hear a need). Though this aversion to digitizing my vinyl signal raised it's head when I bought some subwoofers (not yet integrated). The subs don't have their own room correction and I will be splitting the signal between the mains and the subs. I know room correction can come in really handy for subs and that would entail digitizing at least the signal from the analog front end to the subwoofers. This would at least keep the signal fully analog to the main speakers, so I think I can wrap my head around that. Damned audiophile genes!