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.
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.