Stereobelt

The Stereobelt is a Walkman -like device.

It was founded in 1977, developed by the German Andreas Pavel and logged first in Italy and later in other European countries for a patent. An initially planned self-marketing has never been realized. The first Walkman Sony TPS L2 was brought on the market by Sony in 1979.

Unlike the Walkman, Pavel was under the title "belt with equipment for listening to recorded music " pending invention from different to a belt around the body-worn components. Other sources, however, make different information about the title of Pavel's patent Thus says the magazine "knowledge" (12/ 2006) of the Süddeutsche Zeitung of a " body- bound ( n ) small system for high-quality playback of auditory events ." The database of the German Patent and Trademark Office, however, the following patents are filed: Battery-powered, electro-acoustic miniaturized array for high-quality stereo playback of auditory events (DE 2858302 C2) and electro-acoustic system for high-quality playback of auditory events (DE 2.813 million C3).

After a long unsuccessful lawsuit in the Pavel invested almost all of its assets, it came in 2003 to an out of court settlement with the Sony Group. Various media, including the New York Times, reported on a settlement in the eight-digit level. Presumably this was made possible only after the death of longtime Sony boss Akio Morita, who had always shown himself as the inventor of the Walkman.