Is one transistor or electron tube from line out to recording head possible?

For example initially connecting a CD source line out to a Pleiades V6 or Pleiades 2N3053.


Then using the recording head as output transformer and the passing DC becoming magnetic DC bias to bring the tape to its linear operating center or slightly of center operating point.


Technically it is not a one transistor recording as there are thousands of transistors inside a CD player.


If it works with good quality it may show that a 2 to 3 transistor minimal signal path recorder is possible from mic to tape.


Would it produce a nice sound on sound too by re recording many times the tape without using an erase head current?