ABSTRACT
A high-fidelity equipment company started by Henry Kloss, Malcolm Lowe, and Tony Hofmann in 1957. Hence the letters K, L, and H. From the beginning, the company produced a variety of consumer-oriented products, most of which were loudspeaker systems with acoustic suspension woofer designs licensed by Acoustic Research Corporation, which all three KLH principles had helped to start before moving on to found KLH. (The three sold their AR shares to Edgar Villchur, the primary founder of AR, before moving on to begin their new company.) In addition, the company marketed the six-foot-tall, Model 9 electrostatic speaker system (designed by Arthur Janszen), and produced a top-quality (and expensive for its time, at $160) table radio, as well as the first high-quality portable stereo hi-fi system, both designed by Kloss. In 1968, the company also produced the first consumer-grade tape recorder utilizing Dolby noise reduction, the reel-to-reel Model 40. [Website: https://www.klhaudio.com./]
See also Loudspeaker HOWARD FERSTLER
A trade name (taken from the name of the sorcerer in Parsifal) used for gramophones and disc recordings, originating in Germany. The manufacturer in 1907 was Stephan Hain, of Krefeld. By 1912 the Klingsors were being made by the Polyphon Musikwerke AG in Leipzig, producers of the Polyphon label; Hermann Krebs and Heinrich Klenk were patentees. In 1912 TMW reported that the patent had been acquired by Theodore Isaac, to make and sell the instrument in Chicago. The Klingsor device was patented in the U.S., #899,491 (filed 28 Feb 1907; granted 22 Sep 1908).
