Some here might be surprised to learn that I've given up on the cassette thing completely, although with no small amount of reluctance, given the time and money I'd invested. It was fun - I've particularly enjoyed collecting great NOS blank tapes - but for me at the end of the day it became too much of a hassle, thus distracting me from other areas of the hi-fi hobby that make more sense now. For example, it's tough to justify recording vinyl to cassette when a properly done digital recording from lp can produce an equally good copy, without the added noise, and vinyl is one medium that does NOT need more noise introduced to it. I still have my Nak decks (both in need of repair, one of the big reasons why I've had it with this stuff), but I've sold almost my entire sealed blank tape collection in the last year or so.