First Stereo Vinyl Record

When stereo records went into production in the summer of 1958 the labels selected their most popular mono titles for most of their inaugural stereo releases.

First stereo vinyl record.

As not to use up excessive space on the record surface with large physical excursions of the grooves. In 1958 the first group of mass produced stereo two channel vinyl records was issued by audio fidelity in the usa and pye in britain using the westrex 45 45 single groove system. The first record player released to the masses in 1895. The demonstration offered the first simulations of what hd vinyl records are likely to sound like ahead of actual hd vinyl physical record production.

The first stereo recordings on disks had been made in the 1930s but were never issued commercially stereo either true two microphone stereo or multi mixed quickly became the norm for commercial classical recordings and radio broadcasts although many pop music and jazz recordings continued to be issued in monophonic sound until the mid. The first stereo lps in the fall of 1957 sidney frey surprised the pubic by releasing the first commercially viable stereo record. The audio engineering software was created with mastering engineers scott hull and darcy proper a four time grammy winner. Though radio didn t kill the record player it certainly stole the spotlight for a while.

How does a stereo vinyl record work. In 1957 the first commercial stereo two channel records were issued first by audio fidelity followed by a translucent blue vinyl on bel canto records the first of which was a multi colored vinyl sampler featuring a stereo tour of los angeles narrated by jack wagner on one side and a collection of tracks from various bel canto albums on the back. Therefore an album that was initially released in mono in 1956 may not have appeared on stereo vinyl until 1959 or 1960. This gramophone record player was quite popular until the rise of radio.

The record industry had been trying to decide which of several different methods of stereo reproduction to adopt. Electro mechanical analog vinyl belt housed in a cassette used an embossing technique using a stylus to imprint the information was the first thing to resemble a modern audio cassette 16 2 3rpm vinyl record. Whereas the stylus moves horizontally when reproducing a monophonic disk recording on stereo records the stylus moves vertically as well as horizontally.