Cassettes still rock!

Thank the lord they were not CD quality, I likely would not be bothering to listen to them.
Its got to be a special CD to hold my attention right now. Most are so overly compressed it aint funny!

Now a good remastered SACD or DVD-A is another story entirely!

Eggs ackley! CD quality can be generally defined as thin, honky, bass-shy, compressed, generic, irritating, two dimensional, boomy, congealed, and like papier-mâché.

A Nakamichi deck and Maxell MX, hard to beat really. 

Never really gave Maxell tapes a fair shot.
Once I tried TDK SA I stuck with them.
My zx7 is calibrated to that tape exactly.

I imagine probably as good though.

@geoffkait 

I can get technical, but can you do so? Do you know the definition of dynamic range? I don’t think so. It is obvious from your post that you cannot differentiate between the dynamic range of the song and the dynamic range of the medium.

And don’t get me started about tape being a “natural medium”—that is nonsensical audio jargon.