Ray Bay <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Stereo was invented in 1954 by the Fletcher boys... but the first >recording equipment generally available to put it on vinyl in a commercial >way was in 1959... there were stereo recordings and recording systems >being tested in 1957 in preparation for the already planned commercial >development I think I have a faint memory that I heard a concerto in stereo by Karajan from Berlin in 1944, you could hear the anti - aircraft artillery in the back. They said it was the first stereo recording and it was a tape released by the Russians who took it at the end of the war. I don't remember if it was a Beethoven or Brahms symphony. It was sent in the Swedish radio P2. Thomas Holm Ramlosa Sweden.