I'm not sure about pure (I'll argue with anyone who says any system will allow you to "hear the music just as the artist intended"), but I will say, for me, analog systems take me back to some place "when I was me," not to mention the fact I really believe the well made vintage preamp you buy for $250 would cost you $1,500 or more in today's equipment.
Then the problem is I love having a component system with all the toys my Mom wouldn't let me buy when I was 16. At 50, I have a great TEAC reel to reel, a very good Kenwood cassette deck and turntable, a fabulous Onkyo (TX-4500) integrated, B&W speakers with stands my cousin and I made (their wood is so hard nothing transmits through it), a great Marantz CD player, and the silly Beam Box FM-8 (it gets 80% of all FM stations while sitting in my basement).
Through diligence, the help of many people on this website, and many equipment mistakes, I ended up spending about $500 on my system. I had a fair amount of luck and used even more brain cells learning about electronics.
I also learned the cartridge and stylus used on your turntable have a HUGE impact on how your system sounds. I spent ~$250 on my Shure cartridge and JISCO stylus, far more than in any single piece of equipment above. And once you have those turntable necessities, don't forget to get a good surface cleaner for your LPs as well as a way of removing surface static electricity from them... and then something called the OMZOW Zero Dust stylus cleaner. Believe it or not, a clean stylus, which only comes about through intentional and careful effort, will remove 90% of the snap, crackle, and pop experience of listening to your records.
So now I can say that vinyl really does sound better than a CD and way better than any music streamed over wires, cell phone towers, or the plate in my head.
That is the problem, though. Playing an LP on a boom box without properly cleaning it (and I'm not talking about using a $4,000 record cleaner here) will only make most people remember why they bought CDs (no background noise) and then, for variety's sake, started streaming playlists they created on Amazon Prime.
I'm glad, however, the dying recoded music industry has found a way of eking out a few more bucks, this time from my daughter's generation. It has rewarded us with the release of many great album's we would otherwise have to spend $100+ to add them to our collection.
