Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!tesla!jeff From: jeff@tesla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: KLH anyone?? Message-ID: <113@tesla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 17:45:07 EDT Article-I.D.: tesla.113 Posted: Wed Jun 29 17:45:07 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 03:15:47 EDT References: <922@pur-ee.UUCP> grkermit.424 Lines: 16 KLH = the initials of Henry L. Kloss, hardly a hacker, more an entrepreneur. Kloss knows how to design good stuff--i.e., simply. Thus, he built the AR-1, etc., founded AR, and sold it to a conglomerate. THen, he founded KLH, built good basic loudspeakers, and sold the company to a conglomerate. Then, he founded Advent, built even better basic loudspeakers. Unfortunately, before he could sell that company to General Foods or the like, he decided to compete with Sony in projection TV and the company went bankrupt. Now operating with legal protection, and without Kloss, Advent is out of projection TV and, I hope, still making loudspeakers (you know, the ones with the best price/performance ratio on the market). One of the new Advent "saviours" is Peter Sprague, of the Sprague [capacitor] family, who, with money made from a wise investment in National Semiconductor ten or more years ago, has also helped (or tried to help) the Aston Martin motorcarc firm. As AR is not what it used to be, so is KLH. Does anyone know what H.L.K. is doing now?