Casa del Suono Museum, Niche 4 - Pocket Sound: from the Mobile to the Portable Casa del Suono Museum, Niche 4 - Pocket Sound: from the Mobile to the Portable

The evolution of the techniques of sound processing and diffusion led towards better quality and less expensive systems. These characteristics had an extraordinary spin off both in the popularization of the radio and gramophone and in the versatility of their use. Alongside the integration of the equipment in domestic furniture, devices also began to be produced from the 1920s that could be used outside the house. This category initially concerned not radio but only portable gramophones: the first extraordinary examples of miniaturisation in the field of sound reproduction

Expositions of portable devices