What cassettes do peaple like these days ....

"But you are right about tape wear, and eaten tapes, not to mention stray magnetic fields. Pre-recorded cassette tapes are quite inferior to mini-discs, but home recorded cassettes on a good machine will blow away a mini-disc."

Nope. Minidisc will blow it away.

Uraniumcommittee, nope. Mini-disc loses to cassette on both the top and bottom end.

I heard some minidisc tracks made from cd we used breifly with our pa system, they were terrible. tizzy, thin, no warmth.

I don't know what a minidic is, but I do know that minidisc sucks

cassettes were in the grave for five years TEN YEARS AGO.
I threw out my tape player and the cassettes back then
Around the time the recordable CD became popular.
The main reason to abandon cassettes is the restricted timing factor. It was a P.I.T.A. to arrange music to fit the cassette. With CD it is never a problem. Ditto accessing a track.
I suppose you still use VHS too..
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