Its microphones were used for The Beatles' 1966 German tour "Blitztournee"; the likes of Elton John, ABBA, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney all sang into them and/or used its studio headphones; and every media site at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was equipped with its headsets. It played a pivotal role in getting personal listening off the ground, and today it’s behind some of the world’s most iconic and acclaimed headphones in both the pro and consumer space. We are, of course, talking about Beyerdynamic, which over the past century has been – and still is – a true heavyweight in the music world.
What started out as Eugen Beyer’s ‘Elektrotechnische Fabrik Eugen Beyer’ cinema loudspeaker manufacturing company in Berlin in the early 1920s soon evolved into the brand we are familiar with today. The public broadcasting and radio revolution spawned its expansion into headphones in the 1930s, and then came the microphones for which they are now just as well renowned.
