Started out in 1946. Osaka Denki ONKYO K.K. is established and begins manufacturing phonograph pickups. The CP-1000—the first product to bear the ONKYO brand. They manufactured intergraded stereo systems though out the years, they majored in turntables, early amps, preamps stereo receivers and also the cassette tape format beginning in 1981, The TA-W800, the world's first high-speed dubbing, double-cassette tape deck with a wide variety of tape-editing functions.