KLH (company)

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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.[1] 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 1964.[2] Later it was bought by Electro Audio Dynamics Inc. and moved to California in 1980.[2] The company is now known as KLH Audio Systems located in Sun Valley, California.

As of September 2006, it appears that the company may have closed its doors. Its registration with the state of California as "KLH Electronics" is listed as suspended, and the product line available through retailers is extremely limited.

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  1. ^ David Dritsas, "Audio's Dedicated Servant.(Henry Kloss; Kloss Video Corp.)", Dealerscope: The Business of CE Retailing, Jan 2001, v43 i1 p28.
  2. ^ a b Ronald Rosenberg, "KLH of Westwood is Calif. Bound", The Boston Globe, September 18, 1980.

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