HISTORY OF DESIGN

MY ESSENTIALS : WIRELESS HEADPHONES

                                                                                                   BY: KARAN PAWAR

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 I TRULY CONSIDER MY HEADPHONES AS MY ESSENTIALS BECAUSE I CAN'T GO OUT WITHOUT IT, IT STAYS WITH ME FROM THE START TO END OF THE DAY AND JUST CAN'T WALK OUT FROM CRIB WITHOUT PLAYING MY MUSIC AND IT MAKES MY CALLS MUCH MORE EASIER AND I CAN JUST PICK UP MY CALLS WHEREVER.

1890: THE 10 POUNDS HEADPHONES

IT ALL START HEAVILY IN 1890 WHERE THIS HEADPHONES WEIGHT WAS 10 POUNDS AND IT WAS SO BULKY AND UNCOMFORTABLE IT WAS INVENTED BY EZRA GUILLILAND, IT FEATURED ONE EARPIECE ATTACHED TO A PHONE AND A LARGE MICROPHONE RESTING ON THE SHOULDER.

1895: THE STETHOPHONES

HEADPHONES CAME IN 1895 WITH THE WHOLE NEW ENTIRE OF WAS TO BE THE NEW TYPE OF HEADPHONE FOR THE COMMERCIAL OR PERSONAL USE FOR HOMES, THE NEW LOOK OF THE HEADPHONES OF TO BE LIKE STETHOSCOPES, BECAUSE OF THE HIGH COST MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T GOT IT.

1910: THE BALDWIN'S

IN 1910, THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL PAIR WAS CREATED BY NATHANIEL BALDWIN WHICH HE HANDMADE IN HIS OWN KITCHEN AND SOLD FOR MILITARY USES. HOWEVER, BALDWIN SENDS A LETTER ACCOMPANIED BY TWO PROTOTYPE HEADPHONES WHICH HE OFFERS FOR MILITARY TRIALS. INITIALLY, HIS PROPOSAL WAS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY, BUT AFTER THE FIRST TESTS THEY IMMEDIATELY MADE A REQUEST FOR MORE.

 

1937: FIRST DYNAMIC HAEDPHONES

IN 1937, BEYERDYNAMIC'S FIRST DYNAMIC HEADPHONES DT-48 APPEARED IN THE MARKET. THIS EVENT WAS A HUGE LEAP IN TECH AND ALTHOUGH A FEW DECADES LATER THE ELECTROSTATIC HEADPHONES CAME IN, THE DYNAMIC ONES ARE STILL THE MOST POPULAR TYPE OF HEADPHONES IN THE MARKET. IT'S ADVANTAGES WERE SIMPLE DESIGN AND SOUND QUALITY WITH LESS DISTORTION. THE COMPANY BEYERDYNAMIC HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE SINCE 1924.

1958: KOSS SP-3

THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN HEADPHONE DEVELOPMENT WAS IN 1958 AND JOHN C. KOSS WAS THE CULPRIT WITH THE CREATION OF KOSS SP-3.

MUSIC LOVERS APPRECIATED THE EXCELLENT STEREO SOUND OF SP-3 WHICH DELIVERS QUALITY UNHEARD OF UNTIL THAT MOMENT. THE DESIGN WAS HIGHLY APPRECIATED DURING THE DEBUT OF MILWAUKEE Hi-Fi EXHIBITION IN 1958. IN 1960's KOSS BECAME THE UNDISPUTED LEADER IN THE HEADPHONES MARKET.

1968: SENNHEISER CAME UP

IN 1968, THE GERMAN COMPANY SENNHEISER RELEASED THE WORLD'S FIRST OPEN ENDED HD 414 HEADPHONES. THAT'S WHERE THE HIGH END STORY BEGINS. INTRODUCING OPEN HEADPHONES HAD A GREAT DEAL OF IMPACT ON THE MARKET AS THEY ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE MORE NATURAL SOUND WHICH IS PREFFERED BY THE LISTENERS.

1980: PORTABLE'S

THEN THE NEXT PAIR IN 1980 WAS BASED ON THE PREMISE OF THE FACT OF HEADPHONE HAIR, SO THEY CREATED A WIRE LIKE BAND THAT WAS SMALLER AND THINNER THAN SONY WALKMAN WHICH AT THAT TIME WERE BECOMING INTERCHANGEABLE BECAUSE OF THE AUX INPUT ON MOBILE DEVICES. BUT THEY ALSO CHANGED TO IN-EAR BUDS AND NOT HEADPHONES.

1997: SONY NECKBANDS

THEN SONY CAME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE HAIR BUT ALSO THE BUDS DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME AUDIO EFFECT OF CLOSING OUT OUTSIDE SO HERE WAS THEIR RESPONSE THE NECKBAND HEADPHONES.

2001: APPLE EARPHONES

THEN IN 2001 CAME THE FIRST IN THE POWER HOUSE LEGACY OF HEADPHONES MADE BY APPLE/STEVE JOBS FOR THE IPOD WHICH STARTED A LONG LINE OF MORE PORTABLE ON THE GO EARPODS.

2008: BEATS BY DR.DRE

IN 2008, HEADPHONES BECAME MORE AND MORE ARTISTIC AS A VERY FAMOUS EXAMPLE BEING BEATS BY DRE BECAME THE MOST POPULAR HEADPHONES IN THE MARKET BECAUSE OF THE SOUND QUALITY, NOISE CANCELLING AND THE BIGGEST REASON BEING THAT THEY WERE MADE BY STEVE JOBS AND LEGENDARY HIP HOP ARTIST DR.DRE.

2010: WIRELESS HEADPHONES

IN 2010 WAS THE START OF A NEW ERA OF WIRELESS HEADPHONES THE BIGGEST LEAP IN MY OPINION IN THE HISTORY OF HEADSETS.

NOTHING EAR 1 (MY PERSONAL OBJECT)

THESE ARE MY NOTHING EAR 1 WHICH I CARRY WITH ME 24/7 AND IT IS SO COMPACT AND EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF USE WHICH MAKES MY EVERYDAY EASIER AND FULL OF ENERGY IT PROVIDES ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION AND CLEAR VOICE TECHNOLOGY AND IT LAUNCHED IN 2021.

CITATIONS:

https://www.headphonesty.com/2021/05/when-were-headphones-invented/

https://vsystem.bg/en/blog/invention-of-the-headphones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Baldwin

https://lstnsound.com/blogs/main/a-brief-history-of-headphones

https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/a-history-of-headphone-design

https://semiengineering.com/the-crazy-evolution-of-earbuds/

https://www.sutori.com/en/story/the-history-of-the-evolution-of-headphones--GseNSVTWDfe8MZ4jUTpa4wMf