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The Early Headphones
The First Headphones (or at least the early ancestors) were first used for telephone operators. They were really heavy. It was a single earpeice that was as heavy as having a boombox on your shoulders (around 10 pounds) and rested on your shoulders. -
The First Headphones for music
When the Electrophone System was invented, These new Headphones looked like stethoscopes. Now people could listen to the opera and other things of the radio system at home. Subscribers would listen throught tthese headphones at home thatn a mordern offerings as very large people produced very big sounds on a stage miles and miles away. -
The First Modern Headphones
Nanthiel Baldwin created the first modern headphones and all of them were sent to the U.S Navy.Baldwin never patented them. -
The First Dynamic Headphones
The first dynamic headphones to hit the market were the DT-48's from Beyerdynamic. Dynamic Headphones are still, to this day, the most popular type on the market -
AKG producing their firstheadphones
With the design of the headphones in their mind, AKG produced their very first headphones. They were called the K120's. After they created this model, more popular models followed. This madde AKG quit the film equipment buisness and focus on audio. -
John C. Koss
John C. Koss changed the headphones in a way that made Dr. Dre jealous. He created the first Stereo Headphones (Koss SP-3). Over the next few decades, Koss would have dominated the headphone industry and would have done it without a college application. -
The First Electrostatic Headphones
It happened at a show in Tokyo, when Stax launched the world's first ever electrostatic par of headphiones. The SR-1's went into production a year later. -
The First US Elecrostatic Model
A decade after, Koss released the first US electrostatic model. The ESP-6's were around two pounds were exactly light but were still better than the ones created one century before. -
The First Walkman
Sony made the first portable headphones, also known as the 'walkman' were Sony 's MDL-3L2 headphones. From then on you could listen to music while doing other things. -
The First Solutions
The 80's offered the first solutions, both the earbuds and the in-ear headphones made a scene in the 80's. The didn't reach the peak of their popularity until Steve Jobs but that was years later -
The First Neckband Headphones
If you wanted to keep your hair in check and hated the earbuds that couldn't isolate sound well, Sony thougt you might want a neckband headphone.
