The story of stereo

摘要

In the late 1940s James Caesar Petrillo, the union bruiser who ran the American Federation of Musicians and had cheerfully banned all recording for several years, was told about plans for stereo recording. His immediate reaction was that his musicians would have to be paid double rates. Fortunately, American recording pioneer Bert Whyte persuaded Petrillo that his musicians would benefit because they would have to record everything all over again, so stereo was good for the union. The first stereo tape recorders, from Magnecord, went on sale in 1949 - the year after CBS launched the vinyl LP. The first stereo LPs went on sale in 1958 when Audio Fidelity Records beat the majors with a batch of titles that used the new Westrex stereo system that the industry had just adopted as a standard.