Cassettes still rock!

Well, they never rocked, at least in the sense of high audio quality. The typical dynamic range is about 8 bit (seriously), wow and flutter can be bad, they melt in hot sunshine and degrade with use. You may like them for sentimental reasons, but most cassettes sucked big time. They best metallic tapes with Dolby were respectable, but still not CD quality.

@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.