Klipsch Refines Electronics, Speaker Plans
Attendees at the Custom">http://www.cedia.org/">Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association Expo 2001 will be the first to see new Aragon products, parent company Klipschhttp://www.klipsch.com">Klipsch; announced in late June. The Indianapolis-based audio manufacturer will unveil new Aragon/Klipsch home theater systems at the annual show held in its hometown the first week of September. The show's stature has grown to such an extent that many companies now choose to debut new products there rather than at the January Consumer Electronics Show.
Klipsch Shifts Gears
Memorial Day is the traditional beginning of summer. This year, it will mark a new chapter for Klipsch">http://www.klipsch.com">Klipsch Audio Technologies.
Klipsch to Show Red Oak Finish, Demo Active Crossover at Audio Advice Live
Klipsch willl introduce a Red Oak finish option for its Heritage Forte IV and Heresy IV loudspeakers at Audio Advice Live 2025. The finish, paired with gray heathered grilles, marks its first public appearance.
KnowledgeLINK Launches GetPlugged.com
Hoping to "forever alter the way people shop for medium to high-end home entertainment products," KnowledgeLINK has launched its e-commerce website, GetPlugged.comhttp://www.getplugged.com/">GetPlugged.com;, which it claims will "educate and entertain consumers, and seamlessly link them with the nation's best A/V specialty retailers and custom installers." The site offers what it calls "a highly informative, fun, uniquely interactive shopping experience for the audio-video consumer."
Krell "Trade Up" Deal
Would a piece of Krell electronics be the crowning jewel on your equipment rack?
Krell Demo A Killer
On April 14, Krell Industries invited the New York–based audio press to its first-ever American demonstration of its Evolution electronics separates, at Sound By Singer. In a surprise move, the company also debuted a complete "re-imagining" of its flagship loudspeaker, the LAT-1:">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/382">LAT-1: the $55,000/pair LAT-1000. "We set out to improve the LAT-1," Krell CEO Dan D’Agostino said, "and in the end, probably the only parts we retained from the original design were the top and bottom panels. The LAT-1000 is essentially a completely new design—although it does retain the same footprint as the LAT-1, since that proved so popular in Japan that we didn't want to mess with it." And, he said, patting the aluminum top-plate, "Let me tell you, it was hard to pack all of this new technology into a package this size."
Krell Gets Tough
Consumers prefer to get a good deal, and dealers like to maintain a healthy profit margin. Somewhere in the relationship is a perfect balance, where buyers get a legitimate product for the best price while dealers make enough money to ensure that the customer can be supported properly.
Krell Working to Resume Operations
On August 29, 2024, Wm. R. Kennedy Buhler, aka Wil Buhler, informed Krell dealers, distributors, and customers that Krell is well on the path to reopening.
Krell, Conrad-Johnson, McIntosh, and Parasound For Sale Online?
Treading the fine line between authorized retailers and the used equipment market, New Jersey online retailer WorldExchange.comhttp://www.world-exchange.com">WorldExchange.com; announced last week that it has launched a consumer electronics shopping Web site that offers "deep discounts" on a broad array of mid to high-end audio/video components whose manufacturers, the company says, normally adhere to "restricted distribution and price-maintenance policies."
Label Panic in the Year 2007
In a week in which Radiohead released non-DRM digital files of its new recording, In">http://www.stereophile.com/news/100807radiohead/">In Rainbows, for whatever price consumers felt obliged to pay, and Madonna and Nine Inch Nails both announced they were going to release their own music without help from record labels, two of the big four labels had drastically different reactions to the new realities of music distribution.