How audio giant Klipsch got its start in Arkansas

By Kyle Kellams,

Randy Dixon

Published August 21, 2023 at 11:31 AM CDT

Out of a tin shed in 1946, Paul Klipsch began to sell the Klipschorn speaker in the small town of Hope. Klipsch invented the device and was inducted into the Audio Hall of Fame and the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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Randy Dixon

Randy Dixon is the Director of News Archives and Media for the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

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