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there are not enough 1's and 0's to capture ALL of the source material.

But there are enough physical differences in the grooves of an LP to be more accurate? Technically, an analog recording does the same thing as a digital one, only without being tied to a standardized clock.

All this, including the stylus having to ride in the track, fighting centifugal forces outward, gravity & inertia as it bounces in the track (both vertically and horizontally - I assume if we're talking fidelity, we're talking at least stereo discs!), wow, flutter, pressing anomalies, dirt, dust, stylus wear, groove swish, and a handful of other issues.

I will say if you had a record of infinite size spinning at an infinite number of revolutions per minute in a "physics vacuum" that, yes, an LP could come a lot closer than a compact disc to the original source material. But to be honest, you're asking a whole lot of a 30cm platter of 180gram/m^2 vinyl and a little piece of wire with a diamond chunk on it.

Bren R.