I have heard a lot of tape on my vinyl visits. I have seldom liked any classical performance on tape. Most of the Decca EMI type performances were in fact poor on tape. I don't know the source, possibly not the master.
Then there were some small scale performances. Some of these had great sonics, but made classical sound like a jazz band, too much in the room for my concert hall feel. The best of the small scale chamber like I heard was the Yarlung at Myles, and he had the Doshi. His tape set up was really good, and from what I understand from reading posts in that there are better transports than the Technics he had. Others mostly had the king cello or no external pre and many Studers. I also tried to compare tapes from different sources over three visits over the last few months
So without a proper compare (which I am not interested in doing on the tape front at the moment), my conclusion is that the Doshi is a must, good tapes for the music I listen to are rare, and in almost all cases I enjoyed the vinyl more, though the performances were different. It was quite clear that tape had me immediacy, dynamics, tone, bass, stage. So not for me yet.
I am still way behind on data points on tape though. So could change impressions.