Digitally remastered vinyl record? Seriously?

Hey, don't feel bad. I just noticed the same thing last week on some cassettes I picked up. Would you believe they were from the 80s?

Digitally remastered cassettes actually don't sound half bad. Sweeter than CDs but not quite as sweet as pure tape.

Cassettes sound better than CDs.  You can read it any way you prefer.

I cannot abide digital. I'm referring to CDs right out of the box, untreated. So in that sense I don’t agree it’s all about the music. Did you ever notice that of the three recording/mixing/mastering variations one sees for CDs, you know, the AAD, ADD, and DDD, that AAD sounds the most analog whereas DDD sounds the most synthetic, thin, uninteresting, monochromatic, kind of like papier mâché? And as I intimated earlier digitally remastered cassette tapes actually seem to get the best of both worlds - dynamics, low noise and analog sound.

I am usually listening to a vintage Sony Walkman portable cassette player, I have a bunch including the Sony Professional Portable Cassette Player. I use vintage Sony ultralight headphones. I listen to standard issue commercial audio tapes as original as humanly possible. Generally speaking I find audio cassettes much more true to actual musical instruments than CDs and more dynamic as well. One assumes it’s due to no house AC, no interconnects, no big old speaker cables, no power cords, no fuses, no big honking transformers, no big honking capacitors, not a lot of wiring period for that matter. Oh, and also due to the medium of tape.  It's a natural medium.  It breathes.

It’s the D3 Pro Walkman.