Alot of discussion here on this topic, i got reel and cassette and cd and lp, to make a point? All i can say with certainty is at chicago axpona 2017 show, i went to alot of rooms and listened to some uber expensive turntables , but one small room i visited had the best sound ive ever heard in my life, Frank Zappa was playing on a seriously good sounding/looking Technics 10" reel playing 15" p.s. probably a master tape, my God! i could close my eyes and reached out and touched the man! All those 30-100k turntables sounded pretty mundane compared to that, so in my mind and ears the RTR tape @ 15 ips cannot be beat providing the deck and tape are 1st rate in this life or the next to come,imho.
