KLH (company)

KLH (company)

KLH is an audio company founded in 1957 as KLH Research and Development Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Henry Kloss, Malcolm S. Low, and J. Anton Hoffman originally to produce loudspeakers. [David Dritsas, "Audio's Dedicated Servant.(Henry Kloss; Kloss Video Corp.)", "Dealerscope: The Business of CE Retailing", Jan 2001, v43 i1 p28.] KLH had sales of $17 million, employed over 500 people and sold over 30,000 speakers a year before it was sold to Singer Corp in 1967.Ronald Rosenberg, "KLH of Westwood is Calif. Bound", "The Boston Globe", September 18, 1980.] Later it was bought by Electro Audio Dynamics Inc. and moved to California in 1980.op.cit.] .

KLH was then acquired by Kyocera Ltd, a Japanese conglomerate, and production was shifted overseas. Kyocera decided to stop manufacturing audio products in 1989, and sought a buyer for the KLH brand. The company is now known as KLH Audio Systems located in Sun Valley, California. Formerly known as Wald Sound and Verit Industries.

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External links

* [http://www.klhaudio.com/ KLH company website]


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