[JavaBrewer]

I remember 8 track tapes and cassettes. They filled their roll back in the day of no other options. Dolby B and C and Dbx. That also a time when I would record a tape from my home stereo and put a song on the track multiple times cause fast rewind was hard on the medium. Thank CDs arrived in what the late 70’ early 80’s and tape hiss became a distant memory pretty quick.

I love the look of retro stereo gear as it was cool in my days growing up. I believe there are retro looking audio equipment that also support digital/streaming. That is the direction I would go to keep the original nostalgic look. Unless you like tape hiss and fiddling with old school media, which is fine as well.