WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era?

I hate to judge before all the facts are in but I might be the only one here who thinks that cassettes are great and often sound better than CDs or vinyl in most respects that matter. I’m not talking about the cruddy ones from the 70s but the ones from circa 85 to 95. Even ferrite tapes are good sounding. I have a lot of good cassettes now and it’s rare to hear noise between tracks and I never hear noise whilst the music is playing. I did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday. Perhaps you guys are oblivious to all the overly aggressive compression for CDs and vinyl. I can’t breathe! 😩 Maybe you guys need a good ear candling. 🕯

 hate to judge before all the facts are in but I might be the only one here who thinks that cassettes are great and often sound better than CDs or vinyl in most respects that matter.

Now you know I am VERY pro cassette tape GK with large money invested in a fully restored Nak zx7.
But even I might hesitate to go as far as that statement when you included records as well.

See, I told ya! 🤗 Of course it’s not entirely what you have it’s how you do it too. I have the advantage of avoiding the considerable distortion and noise that comes with house AC, AC ground, power cords, fuses, transformers, all that jazz. 🎶

A lot of hiss and tapes being eaten by a car deck. RR was a much better setup, if you could afford one. Me I lived off of .99 8 tracks from the weekend flea market...your deck eats it, no problem, buy another. We from back in the day lived through Vinyl. All the music was through vinyl. There were some decent rigs, even through the disco era of the mid 70's. 

Not quite sure how a crappy car tape deck can be the reason that cassette tapes per se were crappy.... lol
Some logic to it to someone I’m sure.........