PERSONAL STEREO(1977)

PAVEL PATENTS THE FIRST PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER.

A portable audio player, used with a light weight headphone or headset is called personal stereo. it is used to listen song while walking jogging and relaxing.

Given its market domination from the movement it first appeared in 1979, many people might imagine that the Sony Walkman was the original personal cassette player. Its iconic status is beyond question it all but created the vogue for listening music on the move and is direct antecedent of today’s ubiquitous iPod. And yet seven years earlier, a lone inventor with little expertise in the field of electronics came up with a concept that was almost identical.

The story begin Brazil in 1972 when a German born former TV executive named Andreas Pavel sought a way of listing a music while going about his everyday business. His idea was for a tiny portable cassette player not that much larger than the cassette itself that played back audio through a small pair of headphone. He called his novel idea the stereobelt, the first personal stereo

Having left brazil and move to Switzerland, Pavel made approaches to many of leading electronic manufactures, but none were interested in his idea they believed that few would be prepared to wear headphone in pubic in order to listen to music. Although Pavel failed to find a backer for his idea, his faith was unshaken and, during 1977, he filled parents for his invention across the globe.

One year later Sony launched their renowned Walkman to immediate acclaim Pavel set out on what turned out to be a marathon legal battle taking up most of the next twenty five years. It was eventually resolved in 2003, with an out of court settlement in which Sony is believed to have paid Pavel in excess of $10 million.

The first commercial personal stereo was Sony Walkman created by Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka the co founder of Sony and Kozo Ohsone