Paul Wilbur Klipsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Wilbur Klipsch

American engineer

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1904

Place of Birth: Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 05-May-2002

Profession: engineer, entrepreneur, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Paul Wilbur Klipsch (born March 9, 1904 in Elkhart, Indiana – died: May 5, 2002 in Hope, Arkansas) 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.
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.”