Immink says the myth is that Sony exec Ohga's wife insisted on the 74 minute length, based on a very slow performance of Beethoven 9, which normally isn't that

Immink says the myth is that Sony exec Ohga's wife insisted on the 74 minute length, based on a very slow performance of Beethoven 9, which normally isn't that long. But he also says it's not true. This is in his classic paper on the history of the CD. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322951358_Shannon_Beethoven_and_the_Compact_Disc https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322951358_Shannon_B...