The 1701 Audiometer
In 1969 Grason-Stadler introduced the 1701 audiometer. It was the company's first combination pure tone/speech audiometer and would revolutionize the industry. Attention was made to every detail, for example; the VU meter accurately monitored all output stimuli and routing channels and signals to various outputs did not affect calibration, something that the competition had not yet figured out how to do. In addition the 1701 was also available in a automatic version which meant that Bekesy type tracings could be generated on an external X-Y plotter. The 1701 also included effective narrow band masking which took the guess work out of the equation. This any many other features led to the 1701 becoming the most popular audiometer of its generation.
