YAMAHA HIFI HISTORY

HIFI BEGAN WITH YAMAHA

It is now over 70 years since the birth of the Yamaha HiFi player, the world's first audio equipment bearing the prestigious “HiFi” name. As one of the world's leading audio manufacturers, and reflecting our long history as a comprehensive musical instrument manufacturer, Yamaha continues to take on the challenge of creating superior HiFi audio products in order to deliver the profound joy of music to as many people as possible. In this site, we celebrate and recount the history of Yamaha HiFi Audio’ s innovations and accomplishments from 1954, when the Yamaha HiFi Player was born, on to the present, as well as pointing to representative products that have produced the sound of each era.