Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people.

Are you sure all your dogs are barking ?

I have the impression that in fact more and more people are getting interested in tape, both RTR and cassettes. This might be a fashion moment and might be not, too early to tell. As for recording studios, that's how you record if you want quality - you use tape and analog recorder. Double that for acoustic music. Digital is consumer mass market medium, it can be listenable but that's all.  Instead of engaging in a futile task to make digital sound as analog, it would be better to invent better analog medium, better than tape.

Average consumers will consume anything that is average thinking that it is good. Audiophiles are not that.