Around 10 years ago, I worked with a bright young guy named Matt....college grad, quick on his feet, but his experience with music playback systems was limited to strictly MP3 players. He even thought CDs were archaic at that point. One day, he saw me looking at a nice Technics R2R deck on eBay...."what`s THAT ???", he wanted to know. So, I gave him the Cliff Notes version of how a reel deck reproduced sound, and he responded like I was talking about Amish horse and buggies.
"How can THAT possibly produce good sound ???" he asked.
"Tell you what", I said....why don`t you come take a listen, and judge for yourself. So, a few days later, he stopped by with Mike, another young co-worker. I seated them in a good listening position, and fired up one of the 1020Ls, with a good 7 1/2 ips CD dub of "Brothers In Arms", at a fairly healthy volume.
I had to smile when their jaws damn near hit the floor (and stayed there). After that, I put on some vinyl, a MFSL copy of dark Side Of The Moon. They must have said "WOW !" at least 49 times during that short timespan. They learned something that day....that "old tech" is not necessarily a bad thing....