This is a nice piece, and although I deeply despise cassette tape in almost all of it's forms, I understand the author's point of view. As a form factor, they

This is a nice piece, and although I deeply despise cassette tape in almost all of it's forms, I understand the author's point of view. As a form factor, they are quite nice, and have a comforting rattle. As a medium, they suck arse. Almost all domestic analogue audio recording media suck. No amount of waffling about "warmth" or authenticity is convincing. People like it because it reminds them of their youth, or a specific timeframe. vinyl? great cover art, finicky, fragile, terrible dynamic range. 8 track? infinite loop, great. I hope you have a stable winding head. Cassette? shite. Its the equivalent of shooting everything with high contrast, pushed ilford black and white film (think super grainy press pictures) or overly green/red saturation of kodachrome. Its great for a specific type of music, but sucks as a general medium