cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl.

my husband prefers something called 128 as the quality.

- his amazing Wife

Hahaha :))
From this thread I like this signature. 

The rest is fake news

Surely Cassettes at 1.875" per second are far too slow to be able to complete with records, which in the day would have been recorded on tape running at 15" per second. That's 0.8523 miles per hour! 

At 0.15" wide Cassette tape is just too narrow and its limitations are exposed are easily exposed.

I agree with the premise that cassette as good as vinyl. Our RTR tech tweeked my CR5 and the only tape I put through it was TDK MA-XG and SA-XG that I cut for length. 

Is your record player labeled "Mattel"?  I bet it's swell.

LOL