What brand was better than it is today?

KLH, the 9's were pretty nice. Those were the first fancy speakers I ever heard. What do they make today?

IMHO, the obvious choice, hands down with no competitors in sight, and as someone else already mentioned, is Altec Lansing.

With the caveat that today’s company is a completely different entity: if I am correct, today’s company bought the trademark and that is the only thing linking the two.

I second Olsmobile  :)

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“KLH, the 9's were pretty nice. Those were the first fancy speakers I ever heard. What do they make today?”

Oddly enough, I just saw a new pair of KLH speakers at Decibel Audio in Chicago, and I was quite surprised.  I owned a pair of KLH One’s from 1977 to who knows when, and loved them in their time.  I asked the salesperson if he knew anything about who was making them now, and didn’t have much info except that it wasn’t a corporate conglomerate.  I think the model was the Kensington or something like that.  I got to a/b them with a pair of mid-range Harbeths, and they kind of held their own, at less than half the price of the Harbeths.  They looked very nice also, looked like high quality construction at least on the outside.  I think the KLH pair was$1300, the Harbeth pair was $4000.  I was very nicely surprised considering how low KLH went quality-wise in the 90’s.  I still have the One’s cabinets in the basement.  Seeing the new model was like bumping into an old friend.

Dave

Dave-

That's pretty cool. I honestly had no idea. That $1300 is way more than I spent for my KLH 9's in the misguided days of my youth.

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