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

You can’t if the album originally recorded and mastered in analog (mastertape or direct to disc). Pressing also very important. The best way to play those albums is analog way (not digital). You need a proper analog equipment (cartridge, tonearm, turntable, phono stage ...).

But you can make a good digital copy, it will never be the same as the original press. 

This reminds me of the story about the ants and the dinner table. It goes something like this: by accident some ants discover a table filled with food of all kinds. After their initial exitement they start thinking about how to tell the ’folks back home’ in the colony about their discovery and after some deliberation they decide to draw a map of the table with detailed sketches of all that delicious food. When they get home they tell the others about their discovery and show them the map. The colony then gathers around the map and starts discussing all the marvels to be seen on it and what it might taste like. They get so immersed in this interpretation game, none of them can be persuaded to follow the scouts back to the food table and taste it for themselves. After a while the scouts give up and go back to the table and eat what they can, wondering what the hell went wrong.....

why do i keep opening these silly threads even though i know better?

what is the over/under on how many stupid vinyl/digital threads Sam will open before he is ignored completely?

what is the ’mean’ IQ of this forum?

and i'm not calling Sam 'stupid'; i'm sure this is some sort of doctoral thesis research on internet forum tolerance limits.