This comparation is not quyete good.
In the case of an tube radio, you don't feel only the apparatus, you feel also the clear and worm sound provided by the tubes.
P.S. I'm not an old man... I'm only 26.
P.S. 2 I'm curios, will any digital stuff ever match this:
http://www.50er-radios.de/satu-563.html (see the image above).