QuoteBut instead of playing it directly, the music player records the audio in a cassette loop in real time. Then it plays back the music, giving you warm, nostalgic vibes with hints of lo-fi and subtle saturation.

You realise you can post-process ANY audio using FFT and digital filtering to reproduce these with perfect fidelity, right? And before someone jumps in with "but digital doesn't reproduce perfectly" (which is wrong anyway - learn something about Fourier transforms and wave analysis), analogue tape isn't that good a recording medium and will degrade the signal (in fact, that's implied in the quote!)

Seriously, audiophiles are some of the weirdest, most delusional people I've met. They're why Samsung is thinking about releasing a simulated vinyl "record player" that uses a large circular touch screen to show the "record" turning (and let you touch and push to move the disk around).

Definitely people who live in museums.