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Re: What year did "Stereo" recordings start

As others have noted, two channel recording experiments have been around for a long time, but the first commercially available ones were right around 1960.

If someone wants to get into a minucia (sp?) discussion about various techniques, I'd be happy to offer my own experiments from the early 70s when I experimented with many-channel recording and playback.

As a practical matter, I would say that in the course of stating when "such and such" started, most of us are interested in commercially delivered and accepted products. The fact of the matter is that no homeowner in 1940 or 1950 had stereo playback equipment, so whatever experiments or demonstrations had been done were purely experimental.

Otherwise, I might be tempted to say that I developed the first surround sound recording and playback system in 1974 (discounting the goofy quadraphonic idea). And I'm pleased to say that it's still more than 5.1 does, and we've had 30 years to work on it. Makes me wish I was a manufacturer. :)

When an idea was first tried, and when it was first "truly available", are two different things.



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