There's a thriving cottage industry taking real studio masters from original tape (from the era when actual studio engineers would use tape) and making copies for "discerning" audiophiles like you to play on their reel-to-reel machines. Very authentic.

Except of course each time you make such a copy you'd damage the original irreversibly, and these are the real master tapes, when they're gone that's it.

So what they _actually_ do is make a single digital copy and then copy that back to make each of the tapes they sell. So you're getting an analogue copy of a digital copy of the original. By any reasonable thinking that's the worst of both worlds.

But don't worry, paying extra for something that's objectively worse is audiophile tradition. Keep it up.