Yes, a connection to the physical world.

Sometimes especially on Zoom I look at my cabling and think it's amazing that images of other people and their voices are going through that cable.

Only on Zoom and similar video conferencing. For all other uses I don't even think about it.

I'm not going to say the date but my birthday is exactly 4 months before a certain holiday. So some years back (too many, alas), on this holiday and 4 months after I turned 33, my friends put on a party to celebrate both the holiday and my 33 1/3'rd birthday. Naturally, LP records were played.

Watching the reels spinning at different rates and the tape moving on an intricate path, in a high-end open-reel tape recorder with multiple motors and multiple heads, e.g. a Revox, was even more satisfying.