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Headphones have become as much about style as they are sound quality. This may never have been more relevant than when Lil Wayne wore these $1 million dollar pair of Beats.

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The iPod changed up the whole music universe. From their inception in 2001 to today, over 300 million iPods have been sold all with the accompanying pair of earbuds.

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine joined forces and, along with Monster, created Beats by Dre headphones. Designed with deep bass and great sound quality in mind the Beats line quickly grabbed a large market share and could be seen on just about every NBA player as they walked from the bus to the locker room

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Bose unveiled their QuietComfort line. These headphones helped by blocking noise.

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Both the earbud and the in-ear headphone made their way onto the scene in the 80’s even though they wouldn’t reach their peak in popularity until later.

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All of a sudden, in 1979 headphones had to be portable. Included with the purchase of the first Walkman were Sony’s MDL-3L2 headphones and everything you needed to rock out to London Calling while roller skating in your driveway.

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A decade after introducing the first stereo headphones, Koss unleashed the first US made electrostatic model. The ESP-6’s clocked in at around two pound.

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At a show in Tokyo, Stax debuted the world’s first ever electrostatic pair of headphones. The SR-1’s would go into production a year later.

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In 1958, Koss created the first stereo headphones and launched an all out assault on awaiting ear canals. Over the next few decades, Koss would come to dominate the headphone industry.

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With design in mind, AKG produced their first pair of headphones, the K120’s. This model, and other more popular ones that followed, were enough to make AKG quit the film equipment business and focus just on audio

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The DT-48’s from Beyerdynamic became the first dynamic headphones to hit the market. Dynamic headphones are, to this day, the most popular type on the market

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In 1910 Nathaniel Baldwin began manufacturing the first modern headphones. He crafted them in his kitchen and sold them all to the U.S. Navy.

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In 1895 people began listening to the  local opera house from the comfort of their own home. They would listen through headphones that looked more like stethoscopes than a modern offering as very large people produced very big sound on a stage miles away.

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Before MP3s, dubstep and premium Spotify accounts, headphones had little to do with music at all. Back in the 1880’s, the first headphones were used by telephone operators. It was a single earpiece that rested on the user’s shoulder and weighed over 10 pounds .