KLH (company)
KLH is an American audio company founded in 1957 by Henry Kloss , Malcolm Lowe and J. Anton Hoffman under the name KLH Research and Development Corporation in Cambridge , Massachusetts . The company name "KLH" is derived from the initials of the founders (Kloss, Lowe, Hoffman).
Initially, the company only produced loudspeakers , later also other products, such as the Model Eight , a sharp, good-sounding table radio , optionally with a second loudspeaker, some audio devices that used transistors and a portable record player ( Model Eleven ).
In the year prior to its sale to Singer Corporation in 1964, the company had sales of $ 17 million, employed over 500 people, and sold over 30,000 loudspeakers. In 1980 the company was owned by Electro Audio Dynamics. bought up and settled in California.
After that, KLH was taken over by the Japanese Kyocera group and production was relocated overseas. Kyocera stopped manufacturing audio products in 1989 and found a buyer for the brand name in Wald Sound and Verit Industries . Today the company is located in Santa Ynez , California and operates under the name KLH Audio Systems .
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Dritsas: Audio's Dedicated Servant . , in Dealerscope: The Business of CE Retailing , Jan. 1, 2001
- ↑ a b Ronald Rosenberg, "KLH of Westwood is Calif. Bound," The Boston Globe , September 18, 1980.