Though KLH was sold to the Singer Corporation in 1967, Kloss remained at the firm for a short time to assist in the development of additional speakers and electronic music products, and the firm continued to attract design and engineering talent. At Cambridge-based KLH, Kloss continued to build speakers such as the classic KLH Model Five and Six, and produced one of the first small FM radios with high selectivity, the Model Eight. Anton Hofmann (son of pianist Józef Hofmann) who had also been investors in AR. Kloss began his custom of eponymous products by lending his last name's initial to KLH as a founder in 1957, along with Malcolm Low and J. The AR-1 was the first commercial acoustic suspension loudspeaker. Although they were inefficient in power consumption compared to ported designs, they had extremely low distortion.
By using an enclosure with a sealed air cavity behind the speaker cone which acted as a spring to damp woofer motion, they were able to make less-expensive, bookshelf-size speakers. Until then, speakers of quality had to be quite large. Together they developed the AR Model 1, which changed the way that speakers were designed. Villchur, a former teacher of Kloss, had conceived a novel way of building an accurate loudspeaker. He co-founded Acoustic Research Corporation (AR) with Edgar Villchur in 1954. He earned an Emmy Award for his development of a projection television system, the Advent Video Beam 1000.ĭuring the course of his career, Kloss founded or co-founded several significant audio equipment manufacturing companies. In 2000, Kloss was one of the first inductees into the Consumer Electronics Association's Hall of Fame. He was responsible for a number of innovations, including the acoustic suspension loudspeaker and the high fidelity cassette deck. Kloss (rhymes with gross) was a student in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (class of 1953), but never received a degree. Henry Kloss (1929, Altoona, PA– January 31, 2002, Cambridge, MA) was a prominent audio engineer and businessman who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s.
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