Vinyl comeback now, cassette tapes next?

Sure.

Right after the 8 track resurgence.

Bring back the Edsel and Corvair.

Rotary phones

and

Leisure suits

and

Floppy discs

yuk yuk yuk

>>07-26-10: Les_creative_edge
Using good cassette stock especially type II or type IV or even a good type 1 can give me near indistinguishable recordings of vinyl from my LP's themselves.<<

Reviewing your system, especially the turntable, I'm sure that's the case. I own a 1210 logging many hours of experience with it and a half dozen cartridges. The Technics is a decent product, a bargain at its' price point, but no match for my other tables. So it may appear indistinguishable to you now, but if you ever buy a real high end table, the difference will be immediately apparent.

A cassette playback system is no match for a decent analog front end. Apples and oranges.

That is not debatable.

Clio, I concur.

My Sony reel to reel makes scary good copies of vinyl.

Cassettes are cute, handy, and cheap but not serious analog. Then again, in some systems I've seen here, the cassette deck is actually better than the vinyl front end it's compared to. That may account for the cassette cheerleading.

IMO