Kloss, Henry
(1929–2002)
Kloss, Henry (21 Feb 1929–31 Jan 2002) Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Audio Hall of Fame member and Emmy award winner Henry Kloss founded or helped to found five different and successful electronics companies, and is justifiably considered to be a legendary figure in consumer-audio (and video) history. In 1954, Kloss and Edgar Villchur cofounded Acoustic Research, Inc. (Kloss had been one of Villchur’s students at NYU, and had previously been building Baurch-Lang loudspeakers for mail-order…