I must confess, there was a time back in the 1980s when I forsook my beloved LPs for the convenience of cassette tapes. I had always used cassettes as backups or to play in a car, but as the format packaging got better and more releases were offered with replica artwork and recorded on high-bias tapes, I didn’t think I was losing much. Besides, my shelfs were groaning under the rows of records I had accumulated in my first decade of serious record collecting. ►