Dutch inventor of the audio cassette tape dies aged 94

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[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report.

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[Texas Eagle]

Are they going to bury him or are they going to toss him out the window of the hearse on the way to the cemetery?

Hm. Somehow that was funnier in my brain.

[Chode]

i still have one... the tapes are prolly dust, but

[Texas Eagle]

Or a reel-to-reel. What a nightmare.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

LOL

[gr8eman]

I thought CDs were an absolute Godsend with superb sound quality and instant changing to any song.

As a live music guy I can say CDs weren't that great. If you listened to a first or second generation of a concert track recording and compared it to the CD digitization there really was no comparison!

[gr8eman]

I remember reading something like that somewhere. Loved my cassettes, and Yes they sounded way better than CDs. Anolog rules...Suck it Digiphiles!

[linMcHlp]

Used the higher quality cassettes, plus a Norelco cassette recorder/player. Worked great.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Don’t worry. You can see him on cassette tapes and CDs at any flea market. /sarc

[Chode]

still got my 7”Sansui tooo... 8^)

[Texas Eagle]

The casket will probably get wedged in the hearse and they’ll have to use a pocket knife to pry it out.

[Neverlift]

We used to break the tape and throw the cassette out the car window while hanging on to the end of the tape. It would unspool for what seemed to be a mile and keep dragging and bouncing around. It was a riot on the interstate.

[Deaf Smith]

"Loved my cassettes"

Then came the day your favorite cassette jammed in your player, rendering both useless.

[Texas Eagle]

Wow. And I thought I was a pack rat.

[Texas Eagle]

It’s probably a pain pairing it with your Super-8 I’d imagine.

[Texas Eagle]

Yeah. That was the mental image I had when typing my little thought.

Couldn't quite get it to translate.

But then, most of the thoughts that pop into my brain would be better off left un-posted.

One day I will be able to discern which thoughts to post and which to not. But it is not this day.

[plain talk]

“Not much better than the dreaded 8 track tape.”

From a sound standpoint it was worse. 8-track using 1/4” wide tape running at 3 3/4 ips vs cassette tape using 1/8” wide operating usually at 1 7/8 ips. Less surface area per second of music.

I remember when cassettes came out. From a practical standpoint they were nice but I could tell the audio quality was not as good as 8-tracks.

Of course 8-tracks had their own problems as we all know.

[dfwgator]

Heh Heh

[Texas Eagle]

I remember those days. I'd have my cassette recorder sitting on my nightstand right next to my clock radio and the second a song I wanted to record came on, like Nights In White Satin, I would jump up and hit the play/record buttons and tape it.

Yeah. That sounded great. Felt like you were right there in the recording studio.

[Texas Eagle]

Couldn’t they just rewind him?

[DoodleBob]

I bought a reel-to-reel recording of Beethoven’s 9th. Nothing ever topped its sonic quality.