Paul W. Klipsch - the legend

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Paul W. Klipsch first started his speaker production after
    the Second World War, in a rented tin shed in Hope, Arkansas.
    He had then passed 40 and patented the Klipschorn the same year.
    This has been the cornerstone of the company ever since.

    
The first experimental modell, the X-1 was built in 1940.
    However, a long and thorough education had preceded this period.
    He studied electrical engineering first at NM State University
    and graduated later at Stanford. As business started to grow,
    he was able to purchase a building at the military South West
    Proving Grounds - where had worked during the war. This building
    has since become the Klipsch Museum of audio History. The present
    factory is just across the street.

    
Mr. Klipsch has received an abundance of awards and titles
    for his contribution to speaker design. He is a Fellow of the
    Audio Engineering Society and in 1978 was inducted into Audio
    Hall of Fame, a very prestigious award. His university has named
    lecture halls after him. In 1997 he was taken into the Engineering
    and Science Hall of Fame as the 46th. member, together with such
    names as Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers.

    
Paul Klipsch i s Klipschorn and he first started to turn his
    mind towards the development of this while working in South America
    as an electrical engineer with the railways in Chile. Observations
    of the difference in sound level between direct-radiating (cone)
    radio speakers and horn speakers was so radical as to make him
    interested in the general physics surrounding this. Horns had
    been used for a long time in the fast-developing movie industry,
    but these were so large and bulky as not to be practical for
    home use. His solution was remarkable - he folded the horn back
    into itself and utilized the walls of a corner as the final part
    of the horn. In 1945 his work had progressed so far as to warrant
    a patent for his Klipschorn.

    
It is only fitting that the Klipsch company now is heavily
    engaged in the "Home Cinema" industry, as this was
    the area where horns were first developed and utilized, out of
    a dire need as amplifiers at that time had little power to move
    air, and horns had a much higher efficiency than regualar speakers.
    Therefore, distortion also became less as amplifiers needed not
    be pushed as hard. This ability in a speaker is just as justified
    today with the realistic sound levels yielded by modern program
    material and the superior dynamics built into the digital medias.


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