LT61,
I know what you mean. I stare nostalgically at my last cassette machine, sitting there unused and gathering dust. It was an amazingly good Sony Dolby S deck. Dolby S was a consumer version of Dolby's professional SR noise reduction, but it never really caught on in the consumer sector and it came a bit too late, some years after Dolby C appeared.
I was reluctant to abandon cassettes for road listening, and the aftermarket in-dash unit I got, which operated a CD changer in the trunk, also had a motorized flip-down front panel that revealed a cassette deck within. I used it for a few years for old compilation cassettes I'd made up, but then CD dominated everything.
The real problem is what do you do with all those old cassettes? Throw them out? I hang on to old formats far too long, even though I never play them. ..
Regards,
