I love this video! I dropped by the factory in the early 90s and they gave me the key to the museum across from the factory and let me walk around in there for a couple of hours by myself. This video brought back some great memories. Thanks for sharing.
I own a pair of Cornwalls with consecutive serial numbers . I have enjoyed them since the late seventies . After you hear Klipsh , everything else leaves you cold ! Thank You !
Very true I started with Klipsch in the early 80's had legacy's and B and W after that now going back to Klipsch because nothing else was the sound I was looking for.
1:24:02 "My experience has dictated to me that a significant form of distortion is inversely proportional to efficiency." You want the diaphragm of the speaker to move as little as possible."By attaching a direct radiating speaker to a horn, we increased the efficiency by 15 dB."... "And decreased the distortion by 25 dB." One minuet later he freely admits one of his designs, the short horn, was not a good design. Paul is great! An Engineer, tinkerer, ambassador, and entrepreneur and IMO a true America hero!
I ordered a pair of Klipsch neckband R6 and after already being a huge fan of their vintage concept audio and newer, I know I'll still enjoy buying into a fabulous company. Built on passion. I know the market changes some aspects of what the company was based on as same a many Including Walmart where outsourcing becomes the norm. Anyway. I love the name and what this man stood for.
I'm a native of Hope, Arkansas where Paul Klipsch started his audio empire which is where this manufacturing plant is. I can honesty say that these are the best speakers in the world. Pricey but you get your money's worth
Great interview. I have watched your video 3 times. I bought my Cornwalls in 1979 and now have one blown woofer but plan to replace it soon. May upgrade everything inside but have mixed feelings on that.
Thanks for this great video,a piece of history. I have a pair of Klipschorn KB WO's made in 1989....so these are all the employees that built mine. This is wonderful.
Paul Klipsch sees Amar Bose walking on the other side of the street. Paul cups one hand on each side of his mouth and calls out, "Hey Amar, how are you today?" Amar cups his hands in front of his ears and calls back, "i'm fine, thank you!" Sorry, I couldn't resist.
What a revealing and incredibly honest and intimate inside look at PWK, his company and legacy. I own a pair of Heresy IIIs and love their breathless efficiency and clarity. Besides that they are a beautiful representation of American ingenuity and craftsmanship.
Awesome stuff! Been to the museum in the early 90's. Never met Paul but he did respond to a letter I wrote him about a 7 driver design... he had a lot to say ;)
Klipsch is headquartered in HOPE AR, correct? but where does Indianapolis come into play? Is that one of their production facilities ? thanks in advance for answer this quandary for me. I once went to a concert in Indy a long time ago and the place was called Klipsch music center or something like that (the venue - outdoor concert park)... i'm sure it was a sponsorship title from the company in Hope AR. Anyway, that's what brought me to this cool video.
that must have been the good glue they used before they made the KLF 30 and 20. those babies let go after a few years, Klipsch staff said just screw'm back together
I actually have a mint pair of those speakers, (military Tangent box-speakers) an still sounding awsome! Hardly use. Very rare klipsch speakers these days! I'm taking offers people.......
I to have met Paul Wilbur klipsch on two different occasions.. I too have been a klispch fan since 1976 my first children wear a pair LSI's bought from the same place I heard klipsch thank you Tom at West Bank on audio I also on the set of MCM's 1400 and that special person I want to thank for those you know you I'm talking about if you get a chance please hit me back I also all of their herseys that was made in the 70's they had a recall on those because the glue didn't hold I come close to buy a set of kps at 3500 dollars a stack I pass that up I don't have anything left a more my brother up in Monroe so all of my klipsch, if that guy sees this please contact me it's a shame that Paul had to let his cousin come involved in the business when they started making the audio video that's when the change was coming and Miss Gina if you hear me I like to hear from you I guess that makes me a number 2 klipsch fan.. And when Mr clips made a reference to Broussard he was trying to think of my name and that is where I am from but my name is biglane ...
If you want to save money, and hear good sound again, there is only one way listening to the domestic electron tube. Somebody suspects electron tube, they worry about the electron tube and get the trouble, they afraid that electron tube is short-lived and dislike the appearance of electron tube. In fact, these questions are mostly prejudice, a lot of views are that the transistor is developed in initial stage; it has exaggerated the defect for the electron tube in order to propagate the transistor. The valve amplifier of electron tube is played not troublesome, but also there is much enjoyment - -The same work putting machine, use the electron tube of different producer, different period instead, the sound will change a great deal. Certainly, you can have used all the time with the electron tube of the former factory too, you will find, its sound in different periods will have some delicate changes: The new machine will usually be a bit harder , be quicker, will melt gently progressively afterwards, the speed of the sound will be slowed down too. Electron tube can “sex” it is higher than transistor to want, overload capacity might as well a little , protect circuit little and a lot of, radio station , plane , satellite grounded receiving station ,etc. still use the electron tube in a large amount now. Talk about the life-span question of the electron tube, so long as you think about the television of the family will be understood, the picture tube is actually a big electron tube, though its life-span of marking has 5,000 hours only, but its real life-span is very long, what the television of 8-10 is being still used is customary, but its luminance and contrast ratio have already dropped. The electron tube of the home audio frequency is usually smaller, voltage and air pressure are far smaller than the picture tube, increase of time can make sound to be progressively gentle to take only, speed slacken a bit, four light, five light radio of many the fifties and the sissies can it uses to be a clear proof still up to now and the manufacturing engineering of the electron tube improves by a wide margin now, so, needn't worry about the life-span question of the electron tube. Put and generally weld the craft by setting up a shed in good electron tube work , the volume of the components and parts should be far greater than the transistor machine, the inherent line totally adopts the electric wire cable, the leeway of selecting machine and rubbing machine is very large, there are a lot of substitutes of the tube , it is very convenient to maintain too! the recovering and will be better than the transistor machine greatly of machine maintenance, can appear transistor machine make awkward state that can't be repaired because a certain tube is damaged never. The sound of the electron tube machine is more thick , comparatively speaking, the control , frequently loud promotion , dynamic increase of the noise are more difficult, the investigation that must be overall while choosing, receive to lose just and sound only with the voice, unless you are only used for listening to the voice. It must take a little time more while choosing the electron tube machine, after starting the machine an hour , touch the power transformer and output transformer, feeling the following their temperature, similar products, it is good that temperature is low. Whether there are noises to listen to the voltage transformer, pull out the signal source, turn on great volume, listened to the noise in the loudspeaker, including the noises of high frequency and low frequency, left 1 meter of loudspeakers, these noises can't almost be smelt. While testing , not only there should be voice , should but also have the piano , violin , symphony or ensemble of traditional instruments, must test some trends heavy song a bit , can't stare at some kind of music’s attach undue importance to one thing to the neglect of the other, because some electron tube work showing machines can only display the music with good intermediate frequency , high frequency can not go up, bass can not come down, frequently loud and very narrow, feel excellent to hear for the first time, hear getting long to can is it get fed up to produce, because they only for cater to some psychology of restoring ancient ways of people, attempted to totally get back to magnetic tape deck , gramophone , in medium wave radio era, so long as intermediate frequency was good and enough in the apparatus at that time, present CD , SACD , DVD-AUDIO require the sound to be loud with the trends frequently more and more. There are a lot of kinds of the electron tube, the commonly more used one is but not a lot of, among them the EL84, EL34, KT88, 300B are the most daily again, the production of these tubes were regarded Russia, eastern Europe and our country as much, the amount of production is large, the price is cheap and quality is steady, the general fan is suitable for from the moment that the work that these tubes form is put and played. The power of EL84 is small, generally in charge of recommending for pair, the power is about 10-12 watts; EL34 is in the majority with one pair of one that is in charge of recommending, power is about 30-35 watts; the power of KT-88 with a bit larger, the power around 8-10 watts. The ones that need proving are, the power putting in work of the electron tube is different from the power putting in ordinary transistor machine Class B or the first class-B work, because the voltage transformer is exported, its driving force and power validity are very high, according to now ordinary sensitivity of audio amplifier, watt of powers voice already heavy enough in more than ten square meter in room. It is produced completely by hand that the work of the electron tube is put, the circuits are all ripe and classical,so difficult point that make whether voltage transformer make, structural design and production technology, experience and technical know-how and important in production, so don't take the risk of buying the products of the new factory, even if it totally models according to a certain device, its is unripe but exposed quickly too. The ones that put present appearance and before greatly in work of the electron tube are different, become beautiful rich in artistry than general transistor machine , see several gallbladder machine of our station, there is domestic some other brands product that works and all seems to coordinate very much, the stainless steel chassis of surface of the mirror mixes with the real wooden panel of birch, luxurious and feel cordial naturally , the metal paint that voltage transformer shell and electron tube have covered the shell and adopted the automobile even more, the complete machine does not have a silk burr, workmanship is extremely meticulous . Puts the sound of pushing away and can have been heard for a long time by people, and will like more and more in work of the electron tube ; Its thick , fine and smooth sound and abundant overtone, have already made a lot of people fascinated, are you interested to have a try?
It's disrespectful not to let others finish what they are saying before jumping in with your comments, the guy kept doing it to PWK which I found extremely irritating and I think Paul did, also but was polite enough not to tell him to STFU. Jay Leno does this constantly.
I love this video! I dropped by the factory in the early 90s and they gave me the key to the museum across from the factory and let me walk around in there for a couple of hours by myself. This video brought back some great memories. Thanks for sharing.
thats cool!
I own a pair of Cornwalls with consecutive serial numbers . I have enjoyed them since the late seventies . After you hear Klipsh , everything else leaves you cold ! Thank You !
Very true I started with Klipsch in the early 80's had legacy's and B and W after that now going back to Klipsch because nothing else was the sound I was looking for.
1:24:02 "My experience has dictated to me that a significant form of distortion is inversely proportional to efficiency." You want the diaphragm of the speaker to move as little as possible."By attaching a direct radiating speaker to a horn, we increased the efficiency by 15 dB."... "And decreased the distortion by 25 dB."
One minuet later he freely admits one of his designs, the short horn, was not a good design.
Paul is great! An Engineer, tinkerer, ambassador, and entrepreneur and IMO a true America hero!
Paul Klipsch saying "Diggers of Decayed Stumps" made my year. Same with, "I have a photographic memory, but it never developed."
and "I let more bag out of the cat than I intended"
Thank you very much for sharing this video. With the passing of time (and of PWK) it is now a significant historical document.
I ordered a pair of Klipsch neckband R6 and after already being a huge fan of their vintage concept audio and newer, I know I'll still enjoy buying into a fabulous company. Built on passion. I know the market changes some aspects of what the company was based on as same a many Including Walmart where outsourcing becomes the norm. Anyway. I love the name and what this man stood for.
Really enjoyed your meeting with Paul. Thanks for posting,
I'm a native of Hope, Arkansas where Paul Klipsch started his audio empire which is where this manufacturing plant is. I can honesty say that these are the best speakers in the world. Pricey but you get your money's worth
+WALERSO I am very disappointed
@@WALERSO may I ask why? Just curious.
It's sounds like Paul is a pilot too from the conversation in the video. I wonder what type of planes he flew, does anyone know?
@@harpoon_bakery162 Old klipschhorn with wings! I would also like to know what he flew if anyone knows?
Great interview. I have watched your video 3 times. I bought my Cornwalls in 1979 and now have one blown woofer but plan to replace it soon. May upgrade everything inside but have mixed feelings on that.
This is great to see, thank you for posting it!
Thanks for this great video,a piece of history. I have a pair of Klipschorn KB WO's made in 1989....so these are all the employees that built mine. This is wonderful.
This is as candid as it gets. Wow.
Paul Klipsch sees Amar Bose walking on the other side of the street.
Paul cups one hand on each side of his mouth and calls out, "Hey Amar, how are you today?"
Amar cups his hands in front of his ears and calls back, "i'm fine, thank you!"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Funny stuff. Sadly, they're both gone now.
Great video, love my Cornwall II's, thanks for posting this.
I have a pair of LaScalas and love them. Didn’t have the layout for a pair of K horns but these are truly terrific.
What a revealing and incredibly honest and intimate inside look at PWK, his company and legacy. I own a pair of Heresy IIIs and love their breathless efficiency and clarity. Besides that they are a beautiful representation of American ingenuity and craftsmanship.
Awesome stuff! Been to the museum in the early 90's. Never met Paul but he did respond to a letter I wrote him about a 7 driver design... he had a lot to say ;)
F'n awesome vid, deff a historical document.
1:07:17 My set of 1989 Chorus with consecutive serials were likely made around the time this video was filmed.
Historical document!
Great Video, I still own a pair of Fortes II and I would never swap them out........any chance of some subtitles.
Awesome video! Wish I could own their new range of premier speakers!
Klipsch is headquartered in HOPE AR, correct? but where does Indianapolis come into play? Is that one of their production facilities ? thanks in advance for answer this quandary for me. I once went to a concert in Indy a long time ago and the place was called Klipsch music center or something like that (the venue - outdoor concert park)... i'm sure it was a sponsorship title from the company in Hope AR. Anyway, that's what brought me to this cool video.
indy is HQ, they moved there when PWK sold the company to his cousin Fred. Hope is the main factory for Heritage and Pro.
Klipsch saying don't touch please.. and hat off in my museum..
When asked how long it takes to make a K horn the employee said "about two R's"? I assume that's local time
Reason Gary left was he made to good a speaker for the price point! Yes, the KG-4's. Yes, they are that good!
Hey I think I see my 1989 Forte 2's!
Wish I could hear more of what the young man on the floor was saying, but good bit of audio history nonetheless.
What is the name of your tour guide?
Best of speakers.
Where is it?
that must have been the good glue they used before they made the KLF 30 and 20. those babies let go after a few years, Klipsch staff said just screw'm back together
Very cool vid!
Amazing
I actually have a mint pair of those speakers, (military Tangent box-speakers) an still sounding awsome! Hardly use. Very rare klipsch speakers these days! I'm taking offers people.......
Strangely quiet for a speaker museum and factory.
"Awesome" !!!!! :)
I to have met Paul Wilbur klipsch on two different occasions.. I too have been a klispch fan since 1976 my first children wear a pair LSI's bought from the same place I heard klipsch thank you Tom at West Bank on audio I also on the set of MCM's 1400 and that special person I want to thank for those you know you I'm talking about if you get a chance please hit me back I also all of their herseys that was made in the 70's they had a recall on those because the glue didn't hold I come close to buy a set of kps at 3500 dollars a stack I pass that up I don't have anything left a more my brother up in Monroe so all of my klipsch, if that guy sees this please contact me it's a shame that Paul had to let his cousin come involved in the business when they started making the audio video that's when the change was coming and Miss Gina if you hear me I like to hear from you I guess that makes me a number 2 klipsch fan.. And when Mr clips made a reference to Broussard he was trying to think of my name and that is where I am from but my name is biglane ...
I love my la scallas
If you want to save money, and hear good sound again, there is only one way listening to the domestic electron tube.
Somebody suspects electron tube, they worry about the electron tube and get the trouble, they afraid that electron tube is short-lived and dislike the appearance of electron tube. In fact, these questions are mostly prejudice, a lot of views are that the transistor is developed in initial stage; it has exaggerated the defect for the electron tube in order to propagate the transistor.
The valve amplifier of electron tube is played not troublesome, but also there is much enjoyment - -The same work putting machine, use the electron tube of different producer, different period instead, the sound will change a great deal. Certainly, you can have used all the time with the electron tube of the former factory too, you will find, its sound in different periods will have some delicate changes: The new machine will usually be a bit harder , be quicker, will melt gently progressively afterwards, the speed of the sound will be slowed down too.
Electron tube can “sex” it is higher than transistor to want, overload capacity might as well a little , protect circuit little and a lot of, radio station , plane , satellite grounded receiving station ,etc. still use the electron tube in a large amount now. Talk about the life-span question of the electron tube, so long as you think about the television of the family will be understood, the picture tube is actually a big electron tube, though its life-span of marking has 5,000 hours only, but its real life-span is very long, what the television of 8-10 is being still used is customary, but its luminance and contrast ratio have already dropped. The electron tube of the home audio frequency is usually smaller, voltage and air pressure are far smaller than the picture tube, increase of time can make sound to be progressively gentle to take only, speed slacken a bit, four light, five light radio of many the fifties and the sissies can it uses to be a clear proof still up to now and the manufacturing engineering of the electron tube improves by a wide margin now, so, needn't worry about the life-span question of the electron tube.
Put and generally weld the craft by setting up a shed in good electron tube work , the volume of the components and parts should be far greater than the transistor machine, the inherent line totally adopts the electric wire cable, the leeway of selecting machine and rubbing machine is very large, there are a lot of substitutes of the tube , it is very convenient to maintain too! the recovering and will be better than the transistor machine greatly of machine maintenance, can appear transistor machine make awkward state that can't be repaired because a certain tube is damaged never. The sound of the electron tube machine is more thick , comparatively speaking, the control , frequently loud promotion , dynamic increase of the noise are more difficult, the investigation that must be overall while choosing, receive to lose just and sound only with the voice, unless you are only used for listening to the voice.
It must take a little time more while choosing the electron tube machine, after starting the machine an hour , touch the power transformer and output transformer, feeling the following their temperature, similar products, it is good that temperature is low. Whether there are noises to listen to the voltage transformer, pull out the signal source, turn on great volume, listened to the noise in the loudspeaker, including the noises of high frequency and low frequency, left 1 meter of loudspeakers, these noises can't almost be smelt. While testing , not only there should be voice , should but also have the piano , violin , symphony or ensemble of traditional instruments, must test some trends heavy song a bit , can't stare at some kind of music’s attach undue importance to one thing to the neglect of the other, because some electron tube work showing machines can only display the music with good intermediate frequency , high frequency can not go up, bass can not come down, frequently loud and very narrow, feel excellent to hear for the first time, hear getting long to can is it get fed up to produce, because they only for cater to some psychology of restoring ancient ways of people, attempted to totally get back to magnetic tape deck , gramophone , in medium wave radio era, so long as intermediate frequency was good and enough in the apparatus at that time, present CD , SACD , DVD-AUDIO require the sound to be loud with the trends frequently more and more.
There are a lot of kinds of the electron tube, the commonly more used one is but not a lot of, among them the EL84, EL34, KT88, 300B are the most daily again, the production of these tubes were regarded Russia, eastern Europe and our country as much, the amount of production is large, the price is cheap and quality is steady, the general fan is suitable for from the moment that the work that these tubes form is put and played. The power of EL84 is small, generally in charge of recommending for pair, the power is about 10-12 watts; EL34 is in the majority with one pair of one that is in charge of recommending, power is about 30-35 watts; the power of KT-88 with a bit larger, the power around 8-10 watts. The ones that need proving are, the power putting in work of the electron tube is different from the power putting in ordinary transistor machine Class B or the first class-B work, because the voltage transformer is exported, its driving force and power validity are very high, according to now ordinary sensitivity of audio amplifier, watt of powers voice already heavy enough in more than ten square meter in room.
It is produced completely by hand that the work of the electron tube is put, the circuits are all ripe and classical,so difficult point that make whether voltage transformer make, structural design and production technology, experience and technical know-how and important in production, so don't take the risk of buying the products of the new factory, even if it totally models according to a certain device, its is unripe but exposed quickly too.
The ones that put present appearance and before greatly in work of the electron tube are different, become beautiful rich in artistry than general transistor machine , see several gallbladder machine of our station, there is domestic some other brands product that works and all seems to coordinate very much, the stainless steel chassis of surface of the mirror mixes with the real wooden panel of birch, luxurious and feel cordial naturally , the metal paint that voltage transformer shell and electron tube have covered the shell and adopted the automobile even more, the complete machine does not have a silk burr, workmanship is extremely meticulous . Puts the sound of pushing away and can have been heard for a long time by people, and will like more and more in work of the electron tube ; Its thick , fine and smooth sound and abundant overtone, have already made a lot of people fascinated, are you interested to have a try?
I so wanted to read your post but had to go eat a chili dog.
The fan is annoying. Poor Paul had to deal with him but he did it with grace.
Cool video but the visitor sounds arrogant and not very gracious for the tour
I didn’t pick up on that at all. Just sounds like some southerners interacting with each other. Nothing abnormal about it.
It's disrespectful not to let others finish what they are saying before jumping in with your comments, the guy kept doing it to PWK which I found extremely irritating and I think Paul did, also but was polite enough not to tell him to STFU. Jay Leno does this constantly.