more topics no one cares about. tape vs. CD

listen im not gonna tell you cassette is better than CD, CD has obvious advantages of adding no extra noise or change in the frequency spectrum. my boombox will not play CDs past 50% volume else it skips... tapes can go full volume. home recording on portatudios is a different story. the upper level portastudios go at double normal cassette speed, (and hopefully theres a pitch control you can go an extra 16% faster) which sounds beautiful. which begs the question why did they chose to make the official cassette tape speed so low? There are cassette tapes widely available that hold 90mins, and even 120mins at "normal" speed whereas most officially released albums barely clock in at 45, (42mins for most the good ones ive noticed). They couldve run doubl the speed they chose and actually had a competition for vinyl. then again who cares?