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'Soundstream' was a company established in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah, that manufactured the first commercially available digital audio recorders. It was founded by Dr. Thomas Stockham, Malcolm Low, Jules Bloomenthal, and Robert Ingebretsen.

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The corporate logo of Soundstream, Inc.

Soundstream was the first company to offer commercially a digital audio recorder, which was designed by Stockham from his research in recording audio digitally from his research at MIT and the University of Utah in the 1960s and 70s. It used a 16-track Honeywell instrumentation recorder using 1"-wide open-reel tape for its transport, which was in turn connected to separate digital audio processing hardware designed by Soundstream.

Soundstream also provided on-location recording services using its own recorders, such recordings were released on labels such as RCA and Telarc, as well as providing editing services with hard-disk based digital editing systems of Soundstream's own design, the first of their kind.

In 1980, Soundstream merged with the Digital Recording Company, Inc. (DRC), and became DRC/Soundstream.

Unfortunately, Soundstream failed to patent most of their technologies, eventually leading to the demise of the company, after being beaten in the market of digital audio recording equipment by competitors such as Sony, Mitsubishi, and Denon.

See also

• [Thomas Stockham]]