Raphael
Dream catcher.
Here's some web-read on Superscope . .
Superscope was founded by the Tushinsky Brothers in the 1950s to promote a process by the same name to produce wide screen motion pictures. I guess they wanted a share of the market dominated by Cinemascope, Todd-AO, Panavision and others.
Unfortunately, Superscope never caught on with Hollywood film makers. The brothers then decided to try the audio business. After a visit by Joseph Tushinsky to Japan in 1957, Superscope became the exclusive distributors of the first Sony tape recorders in the US. Right around the same time Delmonico was awarded the same for Sony's novel transistor radios.
By the late 50s, Sony ditched Delmonico and started Sony Corporation Of America with Akio Morita presiding over the company.
They tried to gain the US distribution rights to the tape recorder line as well, but the Tushinsky brothers refused and I am guessing they had the legal documents to do so. The agreement was for 20 years I believe.
Superscope grew exponentially in the years to come, absorbing Marantz in 1964 and like Brian pointed out, acquiring controlling interest in Standard Radio as well. Sony was just starting to make inroads in hi-fi equiment at the time.
Finally in 1977, Sony was allowed to directly distribute their tape recorder line. Their contract with Superscope had expired...
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Seems to me that Superscope couldn't help to be anything but good with both early Sony and Marantz influences.
I have a CD-310. It's one of the cassette decks in their compact series and is an impressively built, handsome piece, and more collectable than alot of Marantz stuff.
Superscope was founded by the Tushinsky Brothers in the 1950s to promote a process by the same name to produce wide screen motion pictures. I guess they wanted a share of the market dominated by Cinemascope, Todd-AO, Panavision and others.
Unfortunately, Superscope never caught on with Hollywood film makers. The brothers then decided to try the audio business. After a visit by Joseph Tushinsky to Japan in 1957, Superscope became the exclusive distributors of the first Sony tape recorders in the US. Right around the same time Delmonico was awarded the same for Sony's novel transistor radios.
By the late 50s, Sony ditched Delmonico and started Sony Corporation Of America with Akio Morita presiding over the company.
They tried to gain the US distribution rights to the tape recorder line as well, but the Tushinsky brothers refused and I am guessing they had the legal documents to do so. The agreement was for 20 years I believe.
Superscope grew exponentially in the years to come, absorbing Marantz in 1964 and like Brian pointed out, acquiring controlling interest in Standard Radio as well. Sony was just starting to make inroads in hi-fi equiment at the time.
Finally in 1977, Sony was allowed to directly distribute their tape recorder line. Their contract with Superscope had expired...
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Seems to me that Superscope couldn't help to be anything but good with both early Sony and Marantz influences.
I have a CD-310. It's one of the cassette decks in their compact series and is an impressively built, handsome piece, and more collectable than alot of Marantz stuff.
