The only compelling, objective reason to record to analog tape is for its distortion quality. This is particularly true at slower speeds. At 30 ips, I’m not sur

The only compelling, objective reason to record to analog tape is for its distortion quality. This is particularly true at slower speeds. At 30 ips, I’m not sure it’s an especially useful medium. You may also be able to make an argument for analog tape delay, but — saying this as someone’s who’s been out of the engineering game for a bit, so with some grain of salt — this is digitally reproducible. For playback, digital can hold every candle you can think of. Resolution, SNR, absense of any degradation, ease of use, etc., etc. Given sufficient bit depth and sample rate, it’s as good as any medium ever needs to be (for human hearing).