Post by RdM on Mar 13, 2021 13:07:26 GMT 12
Also involved in CD development.
"Ottens, who died on Saturday, had little patience with the renewed popularity of the cassette tape – or even vinyl."
“Nothing can match the sound of the CD,” he had told the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. “It is absolutely noise and rumble-free. That never worked with tape … I have made a lot of record players and I know that the distortion with vinyl is much higher. I think people mainly hear what they want to hear.”
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Lots of other news sites reporting this. A couple more:
