To the original what? Original (master?) recording, or original live sound?
There is an awful lot to understand to understand what is happening in all of the steps involved, and I don't understand that much at all, but, a record carries an analogue track, irrespective of what steps were involved between the live event(s) and that record groove.
That said, I do not accept that it is impossible that that analogue groove cannot be a better representation of the live event(s) than what many? all? all-digital systems can achieve. At the mind-numbingly simplistic level, if all the steps in making that groove are, in total, "more faithful" to the original live sound, than the steps in producing a CD, with the right replay gear, the record is capable of sounding most like the original live sound.
Not well explained, but hopefully well enough to make sense?