Shausler, it was my intent to comment on your thread earlier. Even though I have a good bit of CDs, I have some vinyl albums too. What I do is I put all of my vinyl albums on Maxell XL II 100 minute blank tapes. Now I know that those tapes are made for recording CDs, but you should try recording your favorite album on those tapes. You will be amazed at the amazing sound quality. Albums that are digitally remastered especially soung good on these tapes. Albums in my collection that are remastered are Miles Davis'Nefertiti, Steely Dan's The Best Of Steely Dan-Reeling In The Years and Chaka Khan's What Cha Gonna Do For Me?. Also jazz albums like Freddie Hubbard's great album [color=red:828544f37a:e534c3ba62] Red Clay sounds good on these blank tapes as well. Plus a lot of these tapes I play on my walkman. You can pick up greater details in music on a walkman. So yes, I still play cassettes pretty regularly.