Fisher HP-100 (c. 1969–1970)
The Fisher HP-100 was a stereo headphone, launched with an ad campaign that called it "the world's first faultless headphones." That claim comes straight from Fisher's own marketing. Audio (November 1969, p.47) ran the boast in a full-page advertisement, along with the HP-100's headline spec: frequency response down to 19 cycles, which the ad said was just about the low-frequency cutoff of the human ear.
Comfort was the other big selling point. A follow-up ad in High Fidelity (February 1970, p.75) claimed that people preferred the HP-100's sound to $100 headphones, and its feel to earmuffs. It also said you could listen all night, and all the next day, in absolute comfort. Fisher's launch ad in High Fidelity (July 1969, p.43) made the same pitch, promising that wearing the HP-100 was as pleasant physically as listening to loudspeakers.
Beyond the advertising, the record is thin. No independent review, service manual, or detailed specification sheet has surfaced in the Archive's holdings. That leaves the usual numbers - impedance, driver type, weight, original price - undocumented. The ad campaign does make one thing clear: Fisher positioned the HP-100 as a premium attempt to make headphone listening a full-fidelity experience, at a time when most headphones were regarded as compromised, short-term listening devices.
Known from period advertising:
- Stereo headphones, circa 1969–1970
- Claimed frequency response down to 19 Hz
- Advertised as comfortable for all-day listening
- Marketed against $100 headphones (a premium price point in its era)
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