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When did stereophonic tape recordings become available to some home listeners?
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Inventor Thomas Edison listening to a phonograph.
Stereophonic tape recordings became available to some home listeners by 1956, specifically for owners of certain deluxe tape recorders. While two-track stereophonic tape for the home became more common throughout the 1950s, these early offerings preceded the widespread commercial release of stereophonic phonograph records, which arrived in 1958.12