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  • Incredible contribution!
    I hope he knew what an impact it had on the richness of people's lives.

  • I also have very fond memories of farting about with a tape deck as a kid. Rest in peace dude.

    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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