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Is my Kloss collection complete?

Let's not forget:

Advent 201 cassette deck
Advent 100 and 101 Dolby units
Advent 300 and 350 receivers and their phono sections
Advent Frequency control unit

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I'd love to come across some of the rare low production stuff . . .

Model Nine's are probably top on my wish list . . .

of the ones I own, my favorites are:

MINT Model 4 (single)
low serial # model 7's
'Epoxied' Model 6's - fully functional
Model 12's (still gotta recap xover, but they is NICE)

Ones I USED to have and regret selling:

Advent Model 300 receiver
super nice AR3's
SUPER CLEAN original Large Advents (Walnut)
 
markus, The model four and Seven are often forgotten, but are exellent speakers - they cost a good chuck of money back in 1960, about $200 each for the Seven and about $230 for the Four. All these early KLH's reflect high build quality and strong performnce.

I forgot to mention a story of the ultimate Kloss items that slipped away. About five years I sold a model 21 radio to a guy who turned out to be a Boston Globe reporter - he had interviewed Kloss for an article circa 2000. About a year after Kloss had passsed away in 2002 he had made contact with family members and was told that the contents of his basement had been cleaned out, meters, tools, electrical parts, etc. by a attic/basement cleanout company so the house could be sold.....Oh please say it' not true ! ! I can only imagine how interesting these items could have been, audio odds and ends owned by the man himself. I only hope that nothing of historical importance was dumped in the trash like notebooks. I think there would have been some very interesting things....Kloss was a hands on guy who liked woodworking, sketching and so on.

I myself live about 35 miles from Boston and have found my share of neat kloss items through the years and met a few former KLH employees and had some informative conversations.
 
anden said:
markus, The model four and Seven are often forgotten, but are exellent speakers - they cost a good chuck of money back in 1960, about $200 each for the Seven and about $230 for the Four. All these early KLH's reflect high build quality and strong performnce.

I forgot to mention a story of the ultimate Kloss items that slipped away. About five years I sold a model 21 radio to a guy who turned out to be a Boston Globe reporter - he had interviewed Kloss for an article circa 2000. About a year after Kloss had passsed away in 2002 he had made contact with family members and was told that the contents of his basement had been cleaned out, meters, tools, electrical parts, etc. by a attic/basement cleanout company so the house could be sold.....Oh please say it' not true ! ! I can only imagine how interesting these items could have been, audio odds and ends owned by the man himself. I only hope that nothing of historical importance was dumped in the trash like notebooks. I think there would have been some very interesting things....Kloss was a hands on guy who liked woodworking, sketching and so on.

I myself live about 35 miles from Boston and have found my share of neat kloss items through the years and met a few former KLH employees and had some informative conversations.
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRGGHH ! ! I can only imagine what got trashed :tears:

speaking of KLH employees, I bought my KLH 12's from a guy in NH that designed some of the later table radios . . .
 
Hi,

For me, Kloss is good enough! You have a fine list of Kloss designed items to look for. I have spoken to Mr. Kloss in the past about the Large Advent loudspeaker. I had a burned out tweeter on one of mine way back when. He sent me a replacement for free and told me anytime I needed something to call him or if I needed advice about his products. A rare thing his customer service was. A man of superb integrity.
 
I had a chance to get a pair of the biamped Large advents but didnt.
However the guy who had those had the Advent 400 with 2 speakers.
Similar to the Model 8 but plastic bodies and bigger knob. Im pretty sure that was a Kloss design, or am I wrong?
I do know I love the little guys tho. The little tuner is great but its mono, but the speakers are very versatile and have been used as my mains and my surrounds. now they will be my dedicated office speakers. great little things.
 
Wasn't there also a "Kloss" line of speakers in the late 70's. A buddy of mine had a set he was trying to get rid of last year. Maybe it was Koss, can't remember.....
 
Toasted Almond said:
Mr. Kloss said of the original Model 6, "It's the first two-way I've designed that got EVERYTHING right."
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I think the Model 23 was the second one that got EVERYTHING right... :thmbsp: Very under-the-radar speakers (at least here in Hong Kong) compared to the ARs. I got mine off a truck at the audio flea market, after no one had bought them for at least two days. Couldn't believe it, after hearing them. :music: :thmbsp:
 
On the tvs. The 1000 and 1000A were Kloss designs. Henry figured out how to make the Schmitt crt. The 710 and 750 were electrohome chassis with Hitachi tubes, so they really aren't Kloss, although the 5" speaker and styrofoam enclosure were HK. The 760 and the VB125 were probably done by engineering teams. By that time Advent was dying. Henry then figured out shortcuts in schmitt tube manufacture, and started Kloss to produce the Novabeams. There were some cute ideas like the model 3(?) that was a small box with no screen which smell like HK, but by then Kloss was running out of money. The correct Advent speaker names are ALS, UALS, SALS,and PALS. The plastic cabinet Advent/2 has got to be in every collection.
 
did some research, the Advent 400 was NOT designed by KLOSS :(.
BUT it was designed by a wonderful man who learned a ton from Kloss,
Mr THX himself, Thomas Holman.
 
kloss was an interesting charactor, not your typical corprate guy who set out to become wealthy. He was really an idealist - bring the best possible audio to the public for the most reasonable price. he didn't want to sell select nich products to a few, he wanted as many people as possible to experience quality sound. He was no slouch when it came to engineering, having instructed in electronics while in the Signal Corps. - read the David Lander interview done in 1996 and it's clear that Kloss was very hands on. He refered to himswelf as a synthesizer, putting elements of audio together which in his words "should have been put together, yet they had not". A bit restless, often finding the need to leave a company and take a different course.

He marched to the beat of a different drum - driving around Cambridge, sleaves rolled up, in his old Checker sedan! I've heard many stories of people calling him for old KLH parts, and he say..."yah, I have one of those, come on over to my house and pick it up". The World of consumer electronics could use a few more like him today.
 
Jan. 1976 Audio Engineering mag. reviewed an Advent 400 receiver. Still Kloss? If so I remember a 420 also.
 
Updated Kloss Collection

As of today, here's an update on my KLH/Kloss collection:

KLH Model 6
KLH Model 17
KLH Model 24
KLH Model 31
KLH Model 18 FM Tuner
Large Advents
Smaller Advents
Advent/3s (not designed by Henry, to my knowledge) (SOLD)
Cambridge Soundworks New Ensemble II sat/sub system
Cambridge Soundworks Model 6 (SOLD)
Cambridge Soundworks Model 17 (NIB)
KLH TR-82 Table Top Stereo (again, not designed by H to my knowledge) (SOLD)
Tivoli Audio Model One Radio
Cambridge Soundworks Model 88 Radio

The Model 6s and 17s are wonderful, all-day everyday speakers. I had the 24s recapped, and was pleasantly surprised by their sound afterwards. I'm hoping someday to couple the Model 18 Tuner with a Model 16 Amp and run the 24s with them. Haven't listened to the 31s much. I wish they weren't vinyl veneered.

I guess you could say I like the East Coast sound.
 
I have a pair ensemble subs, that I know nothing about. Other than they are marked with a badge "Ensemble by Henry Kloss" I don't know if there part of a system or not, but I have never been able to integrate them with anything I own.

(There probably the 1st generation, since they look nothing like the photos I found of the ensemble 2's)


Can I ask if these subs are considered a decent product?
 
Most definitely you MUST get the KLH 6. It is the crown jewel, the holy grail, the...
Did I mention I have them?:D
 
anden said:
The item many Kloss collectors overlook and some don't even know exists is the Baruch-Lang corner speaker from 1952. Designed by MIT professor Jordan Baruch and graduate student Henry Lang, then assembled by Kloss in his apartment under the name Kloss Industies. They have the Kloss Industries decal. It contained four 4 inch drivers in a cabinet 21 x 13 inches.
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I found a very nice birch Baruch-Lang corner speaker today. Thought I would bump this thread with two images. While attending MIT in Cambridge, MA Henry Kloss did the wood working and assembly of this unique design.

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Cadillac Kid said:
I found a very nice birch Baruch-Lang corner speaker today. Thought I would bump this thread with two images. While attending MIT in Cambridge, MA Henry Kloss did the wood working and assembly of this unique design.
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See my pictures of one that was discarded at a Montville, Maine transfer station https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/mysterious-old-corner-speaker.462001/#post-5971810
I sold it to a guy at a Frankenfest who said it would go to Kloss' son.
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I did read your post last week. That is cool that it went to HK’s son. I think he might have been a member here? Not sure.

The construction of mine looks different than others I have seen. Mine has two birch trim pieces, mitered at the ends.

I will keep mine original. As you noted the sound is just ok.

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