Analogue from Digital

It can go both ways. You can have a cd that was original analog recording. Most cd’s have a stamp on the jewel box that will tell you. DDD mean it was digital at every step. AAD analog recorded, analog mixed, digital to make cd. ADD analog recorded, digital mix and digital cd. My thought is to record digital and to press on album it would come down to the dac used as to how the album would sound. Just going through dac conversations here I would like you could have endless options

@sandthemall
I believe the RIAA curve is only applied during retrieval and not when cutting the record.

No, that is not correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

The correct answer nobody wants to give is vinyl always sounds better because even if all you do is drag a stylus through it this at least is analog, and analog beats digital, full stop period.

Nobody wants to give that answer because it makes no sense.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial question. I'm leaning towards confining my future vinyl purchases to true analogue recordings, buy CDs of digital recordings by artists I really want to support, and stream the rest.