Comments on Profile Post by E_Schaaf

No...... you're serious? OK, what ever blows your skirt up as they say in the south. I am glad I experienced them in the decade cassettes were popular.

I had a totl Aiwa "walkman" and really liked it. Beautifully made.

After loosing it, I couldn't find another one, and had to get a no-quotes Sony Walkman equivalent. Nice, but not as nice.

But cassette... <sings> Never going back...

I mostly agree with @bixby and @Thad E Ginathom but I think something good that was lost with cassettes was everyone making mixtapes. I'm grateful to my Dad for giving me a Kenwood receiver, Sansui tape deck, and some big woofer 70's speakers around age 9 and saying that music would become very important to me soon, so I should start finding what I like.

There's nothing competitively hifi about cassette sound quality in general but I deeply enjoy it for certain genres of music where the sense of pumping and saturation enhances the textures in the mix. House, lofi of various kinds, hip hop, reggae, dub, rnb... I do have some jazz cassettes that beat some lemon vinyl pressings of the same music. Give and take

Also helps that cassettes are often 1/3 the cost and a fraction of the size of a record. Plenty of nice sounding tapes of contemporary music still being released in Japan and Europe