Klipsch

With little more than an advanced degree in electrical engineering, unorthodox ideas about acoustics, and a workshop so tiny that two people could barely squeeze inside, Paul W. Klipsch founded a company to make loudspeakers in 1946. Today, Klipschorns are among the most prized state-of-the-art speaker systems, primarily due to the vision and rigorous scientific standards of Klipsch himself. In Paul Wilbur Klipsch: The Life…The Legend, authors Maureen Barrett and Michael Klementovich have created an in-depth exploration of this American visionary in the only authorized biography of Klipsch to date.

Klipsch has been a ballistics expert, serving his country in World War II, a geophysicist, an amateur pilot, and a determined suitor. In this biography, we get not only a window to his scientific genius, through original articles, transcribed lectures with original drawings, notes, and the text of his twenty-three patents, but a glimpse of his original personality, especially encapsulated in the special bond he has with his wife, Valerie. Their lively relationship is the foundation for many of the anecdotes that Barrett and Klementovich use to illuminate Klipsch’s distinctive way of thinking about the world around him.

Paul Klipsch’s achievements have been honored with awards too numerous to name; he has multiple honorary degrees and has been enshrined into the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame for his contributions to the fields of acoustics, ballistics, and geophysics. Additionally, he has been a generous benefactor, contributing his time, energy, and money to better educate America’s youth, and to further scientific understanding. Most of all, he has created an enduring legacy in the minds of grateful audiophiles. Paul Wilbur Klipsch: The Life…The Legend captures the essence of a unique intellect: a pioneer, an inventor, a husband—a modern Renaissance man.