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Gallery: 60 years of Sony audio equipment
Tokyo's Sony museum showcases its audio electronic evolution, from the 1950 Type-G tape recorder up to 2009's latest high-spec roll out
The day after racking up recession-busting quarterly profits of US$290 million, Sony hits us with a new exhibition from the heart of its Tokyo empire that looks back on 60 years of electronic audio innovation.
The show, which runs from now until Christmas Eve in the intimate Sony Museum inside the firm’s former HQ in Shinagawa, focuses on the original core of Sony’s business -- audio equipment.
Its centerpiece is the Type-G tape recorder, unveiled in 1950 as Japan’s first in what would become a world-dominating recording industry. Today’s iPods and their ilk owe everything to the clunky gray two-reeler of 60 years ago.
Visitors to the show will get to gaze at everything from the Type-G, through an early Walkman-style tape recorder that orbited the moon on Apollo 10 in 1969, to a distinctly dated-looking SACD deck from 30 years later.
As for a personal favorite, it would have to be the 1995 CMT-M1 compact hi-fi system nicknamed ‘Kubrick,’ presumably because it wouldn’t look out of place next to HAL and Dave on 2001. Check it out alongside some of Sony’s other classics in the gallery above.
Details: To visit the exhibition, you’ll need to make an appointment first on +81 (0)3 5448 4455 or fax +81 (0)3 5448 2560 [Japanese]. Open weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oh, and it’s free.
Click the image above for more images of Sony's 1950-2009 history
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