ABSTRACT
A highly regarded and influential editor for Stereo Review magazine during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Klein grew up in New York City and became interested in audio and electronics at an early age. When he joined the army in 1945, he had already learned enough while working for radio-repair shops in the city to earn a position at the White Sands Proving Grounds, where he worked with scientists in setting up instrumentation for early rocket experiments. After his discharge from the army, he attended Brooklyn College, NYU, and Hunter College, studying social sciences and philosophy, rather than electronics. He also worked for various electronics companies as a consultant and paid troubleshooter during the early 1950s. This eventually led to a job for Popular Electronics magazine as technical editor. Two years after that, he moved on to a similar post at Electronics Illustrated, and in 1963, he became technical editor (later technical director) at Stereo Review magazine,a post he held for 20 years.
