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The inventor of the cassette tape has passed away.

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Read about this yesterday,I remember my dad buying the portable Phillips cassette recorder and recording horrible live recordings of my mom and family singing at parties,later on he made mix tapes with his favorite Jim reaves,pat Boone,Charlie pride etc
I fondly remember my first Walkman it was heaven listening to ramones,deep purple,black sabbath etc
The amount of women I seduced with my mix tapes,can't thank him enough.
And then there was that maxell Ad ,I still have that on a t shirt
I hope they buried him in a large cassette casket,metal with Dolby c
RIP and thanks for the CD work as well
 
I just heard a story about him on the radio where they mentioned that he didn't really like the format because it was full of noise and distortion. But that was before they got into all of that noise reduction stuff. He also did work on the development of the CD.
 
Somehow I don't miss the cassette anymore because I can make "Mix CD's" now. And of course if you have everything digitally stored you can make any mix tape that you want almost immediately.
 
I feel like I saw some kind of short documentary about this guy years ago. By just the one invention of the cassette, he really had a ton of cultural impact. As a format, I think that it's been bettered by other stuff (CDs are cheaper, higher fidelity and easier to make "mix tapes" on), but somehow it was never more fun to make mix tapes as when I was recording them on cassette...
 
Aaron Hayman said:
I feel like I saw some kind of short documentary about this guy years ago. By just the one invention of the cassette, he really had a ton of cultural impact. As a format, I think that it's been bettered by other stuff (CDs are cheaper, higher fidelity and easier to make "mix tapes" on), but somehow it was never more fun to make mix tapes as when I was recording them on cassette...
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Agreed, this format was quite the improvement in portability, sound and reliability.

Heard on the airwaves in the mix of info on Ottens, that estimated 500,000,000 cassettes had been produced and that too was a ton of money in the making!


RIP innovator, Ottens.

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My Dad introduced the Philips Brand to the Bahamas back in the mid 60's. Also had a sound of Music store after that.
I still have a few of his Philips cassettes, including one of us kids singing with dubbed music. That was done on an Elizebethan Reel to reel then transferred to cassette.
I remember he and a buddy bought Philips tube amps and upgraded many of the components to Mil spec.
I used to DJ with it as a teen. Might have been 15 watts, but it ran the main speakers at 400 (800?) Ohm. Also had a pair of outputs @ 4 ohm.
Taught me to fix cassettes, made me popular with friends. Replaced felts, spliced tap, replaced cases etc.
RIP. Many great memories of Philips.
 
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