are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD

Inna is right , " it still can sound better on vinyl " . But often doesn't.

Orpheus10 is right. Is it the RIAA process that is appealing? Because the record would be unlistenable without it.

Its technically possible but in practice I suspect not.

curious. is poster saying that digital recordings were played and recorded on vinyl (ie. transfered to analog) or that the vinyl is pressed with the information in digital format? What am I missing?

I'll give you an example. The album "Passion Grace&Fire" by John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia/Al di Meola. Digital recording,mastering. The year was 1981. I have it on Japanese original Mastersound CD, Japanese Mastersound DSD CD, Japanese LP, American LP. The best sound comes from Japanese LP followed by Japanese DSD CD. American LP and original Japanese CD sound about the same. I would guess that though my analog rig is better than digital it is not by much. So it is possible that if you put that DSD CD on EMM Labs player or something like that, it will sound better than Japanese LP on my Spacedeck, but that would not be the point.