You're right. It doesn't. Nonetheless whenever I'm at a hi-fi show and I walk in a room playing a commercial CD of something I happen to have on CD transferred from vinyl (like Rickie Lee Jones' "Pop Pop" for instance, or something from Simon and Garfunkel or Led Zep), I say "I have a different version on this CD...." and they play it. I don't say it's from vinyl and you don't hear any noise of giveways either that it's a "needle drop" (hate the expression)...and the reaction is always WHAT VERSION IS THAT? IT SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER!)...
This happens all the time. I once played a "needle drop" of "Stairway to Heaven" "dropped" from a 12" 45rpm version in a big room filled with a lot of people (and a big system).
When it ended, the room burst into applause and people said they'd never heard "Stairway..." sound so good... then I tell them it was from vinyl and some are surprised and some not...
"euphonic colorations?" I don't know. I don't care. It sounds more "real."
BTW: Paul Simon's engineer Roy Halee prefers listening to vinyl over any digital format...and he's heard enough master tapes....
I say, go with what you like...but when people visit me and I play them digital and analog, invariably they say the TT sounds better.
I compared the 96k/24 bit download of "Raising Sand" versus the LP for some fans of the music who are not audio nuts and they thought the record sounded much more real....
Once, Greg Calbi, who mastered "Graceland" when it first came out, paid a visit and I played him a track from the LP using a ridiculously expensive turntable that I own and he said he heard more from the record than he'd originally heard from the master tape!
That's because the rest of my system is far more resolving than what he used for playback in 1985...but still it shows that vinyl can extract a lot of information...
not that it makes any sense... Pure Vinyl is great though...I just reviewed it for Stereophile...published in a few months.