Hmm, interesting!
I get the nostalgia thing, back in the 60’s my parents had a Fidelity record player, I loved it to bits. The mechanics of it were fun. I’d stack singles under the arm, play records at the wrong speed simply because it sounded silly and still remember the smell of burning dust as the valves became hotter.
Wouldn’t go back to cassettes though, anything over a C60 would result in a terrible tangle 
Maybe not cassettes, but LPs yes!
You can’t beat the sound of a vinyl on a good quality HIFI with equally good quality speakers. Listening to the same piece on an LP and then on a modern tech device is like listening to two different versions. Listening carefully, the sound of some of the instruments don’t come through so explicitly on digitals 
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It is nostalgia Chilli,what else have we got to hold onto from our past.
…because we all revive that ancient art of crossing the room to perfectly placing the needle back to the beginning of the song because we want to replay it…for the sixth time.
I still have cassettes and still play them.Not the quality for the audiophiles but top of the pops for convenience.
Speaking as a guitar player, the older type of valve amplifier cannot be beaten, as in the Fender Princeton here👇
Vinyls were invented about 100 years ago, and public interest is still going strong, how long did CDs last? They seem to have disappeared quickly 
Nostalgia is one thing but quality is another.
Hopefully new generations will start to appreciate quality again, rather than quantity.
That is completely wrong. CD’s are still popular with the classical music enthusiast such as me and to save me trvelling into the City, I now select and buy mine from HMV.
Classical Vinyl Records and CD | Buy Classical Albums | HMV Store
I still have one !
I still have a “stack” music centre - comprises record player, tape player, cd player and radio. Currently it is sitting in a spare room which I had planned to turn into a “snug” with a TV and DVD player - that plan has been put on hold for a while! I also still have an extensive collection of LPs and a VHS player!!
Just leave the arm off the top of the record Surfer and it will just keep on playing… 
Long before youtube it’s how I used to copy down the lyrics to the songs, keep playing it over and over and writing a sentence or two as it went past…
I don’t think there is any doubt about the quality of a recording on a CD, I have spent a life building amplifiers and since hearing my first CD on some of my amps I found that it brought a new dimension to the sound, the quality just can’t be created on any other recording device except when it’s streamed from the internet with sites like Spotify and youtube etc…
This would explain the downfall of the CD, people don’t want to spend hard earned cash on something you can hold in your hand. Had the internet been around in the days of vinyl even sales of those would have declined, but now because of the many collectors and appreciators of good music, especially from the 50’s 60’s 70’s and 80’s it needs to be collected in it’s original form, vinyl. It’s the same with the trend of classic and older vehicles being so popular now. People don’t want the complexity, fuss and inefficiency of modern technology, it should be kept simple and pure…With this interest in older stuff, do you think the people are trying to tell the techy’s something?
I obviously wasn’t meaning that nobody listens to CDs anymore, but if we were to ask 100 youngsters, how many would say that they spend time sitting at home listening to CDs on their CD player? For example, my kids are both in their twenties and just like so many their age and younger, only ever listen to music on their mobiles or pc with earphones. New cars don’t even have cd players anymore, just USB.
I still have a BSR MP60 turntable with a little used Shure cartridge in it. Also a Technics cassette player designed to be in a stack. Both haven’t been used in years.
I put all our CD’s and some vinyl onto a USB stick some time ago. I still have the collection but mostly listen to our music using the USB stick. I recorded in the ‘.flac’ format (Free Lossless Audio Codec), so the quality sounds pretty good. Having said that, MP3 sounds OK as well. Older ears don’t hear high frequencies as well as they once did.
I can empathise with that big time Sheila!
I’ve long been harbouring the idea of setting up a dedicated 70’s room.
Better things to spend money on at this moment in time 
It’ll have to wait.
