CDs sound better when recorded to tapes?

The lack of high frequency extension of a cassette deck will help to balance out the thinner / leaner presentation found on many digital recordings. In effect, you've turned down the treble a bit and boosted low frequency response. This gives you the fuller, less glaring presentation that you find more enjoyable. Sean
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Does the cassette tape have charachteristics that make it sound different from the cd? Or am I just hearing the cd again when I play the tape on the deck, only with the treble down and bass up because I'm using the deck?

There could be multiple things taking place here. My comments were based strictly on the electrical characteristics involved with cassette decks and the sonic signature that it imparts on whatever is recorded. Sean
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Not in the way you say. For classical music I actually prefer many analog recorded CD's (ie, ADD, or AAD) over the pure digital (DDD) recordings.

I seem to remember this issue coming up before, perhaps in context of direct to disc recording. There is some characteristic of a magnetic tape recording (on a top notch machine) that is pleasant to the ear.