Paul Wilbur Klipsch | |
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| Born | March 9, 1904 |
| Died | May 5, 2002 (aged 98) |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, lieutenant colonel, geophysicist, pilot, founder of Klipsch & Associates. |
| Employer(s) | Klipsch Audio Technologies Klipsch & Associates US Army Subterrex Independent Exploration Co. Chilean Nitrate Mining Co. General Electric |
| Title | Paul Wilbur |
Paul Wilbur Klipsch (March 9, 1904 – May 5, 2002) was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems, Klipsch used scientific principles to develop a corner horn speaker that sounded more lifelike than its predecessors.
The Klipschorn, which today is still manufactured and sold worldwide, proved popular. The resulting acoustics career of Klipsch spanned from 1946, when he founded one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, to 2000 when the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society published one of his papers.[1] He died on May 5, 2002, at the age of 98.
Fred Klipsch, former Klipsch owner and chairman and cousin to founder Paul Wilbur Klipsch, said, "Paul was a verifiable genius who could have chosen any number of vocations, but the world sounds a lot better because he chose audio."[2]
- ^ Delgado, Roy Jr.; Klipsch, Paul W. (October 2009). "A Revised Low-Frequency Horn of Small Dimensions". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 48 (10). Audio Engineering Society: 922–929.
- ^ "Paul W. Klipsch Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-08-09.