Not going to knock your passion one bit, everyone has things they love about audio, but I come from the broadcast world, and from their inception we’ve hated carts and reel-to-reel from an audio quality pov. Sure, carts are massively convenient, and rtr on slow play lets you play out or record hours and hours of program material at a time, but holy shit the wow and flutter and noise was so annoying, and storage sucked. Was so glad to move to digital when CDs came out.