Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Someone would buy it. Some are over the moon about reel-to-reel - supposedly one of the best sounding playback formats available, but I've neither listened to, nor even seen one in the flesh.
When I was a wee lad, and we lived in Rochester, Dad sang with the Rochester Oratorio Society. He had one tape from a performance, I don't even know of what, because we didn't have a tape deck. I think he borrowed one from a friend, once, when I was a yute.