Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By the 70's Kloss was long gone from KLH. You are probably thinking of the Advent receiver. Kloss founded Advent which made mostly low priced components.The Advent speaker was the company's bread and butter product, but they also made electronics and a cassette recorder. The Advent receiver did have a rotary tuning dial, just like the early KLHs, but FM tuning was accomplished by means of a simple 3-gang variable capacitor, not varactor diodes.Its build build quality was poor, and QC non existent. I bought one from Sam Goody's in NY only to have it die a few weeks after purchase.Goody's sent it in for repair and after it came back it died again. After the second repair I sold it and got something else. I understand they now sell for quite a bit on the second hand market, mainly because of the very good phono preamp. Advent was a successful company, but Kloss poured most of its profits into developing a home projection TV system which he believed would be the Next Big Thing. These R&D expenses eventually bankrupted the company. In the '90s Kloss founded Cambridge Soundworks. - ----- Original Message ----- From: <Afterswift@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 18:54 Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: KLH [was:That's Kvetch With a "K"] > In a message dated 9/27/03 3:50:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > alal@duke.poly.edu writes: > > > KLH made many receivers, not all had the typical rotary tuning dial. Which > > one are you referring to? > ------------------- > I think the model I'm referring to was sold during the 1970's, about the same > time as the KLH 21 radio. Now that you reminded me, as a kid I recall Jean > Shepherd loved to advertise the KLH 8, which was the original tube version. KLH > was the only advertiser he didn't lampoon. > > br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html