Re: RF chipset for audio

In article <1gxmlma.nq9x30ojfvu4N%poppy.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
poppy.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adrian Tuddenham) writes:
|> Ban <bansuri@xxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> > martin griffith wrote:
|> [...]
|> >
|> > Sennheiser is a big microphone company, who invented the wireless mikes.
|>
|> That sounds to me as though some salesman has been re-writing history.
|>
|> Wireless mics have been around for a very long time and a company I
|> worked for in the 1960s had been making receivers for them, to special
|> order for the BBC, many years before they came into more general use.

According to the history page on sennheiser.com, the wireless "Mikroport"-system
was introduced in 1958. Seems quite early to me. Maybe they weren't the actual
inventors, but at least they brought it into public usage, as mikroport is still
a synonym for wireless mikes.

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