RIP Lou


I like this quote:
" “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.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-dies-aged-94/ar-BB1etO...
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I mostly just bought records, then recorded them, either on TDK or Maxell CrO2 tape. I liked the Metal tapes too, but they were much more expensive for a teenage hifi kid. Vinyl-to-tape cassette just sounded so much better than a store-bought copy. And of course my equalizer was influencing how good the tape sounded in my car too. My car too had an equalizer and so could make up for any deficiencies when on the road.

I had several nice home tape decks but the best was a Teac R999X purchased while in the military. The auto-reverse feature was problematic but that deck had great record features allowing beautiful sounding cassettes to be made.

Car audio was for many years the bastion of cassettes. Thank you Mr. Otten for the product and the memories.