In Memory of Henry Kloss

Memoboy, I believe your story has roots. While the store I was a part of sold Advents..there was never a question as to replacement drivers.

For speed and sonic merit, the Advent voicecoil wires were light and quick to move..but would not stand up to some of the head-bangers that used them. Advent would replace the drivers even when user damage was obvious.

Little know was Henry's (as well as many others at Advent) excellent taste in what were great demo recordings. Some of the early LP's that Advent suggested for demo's are still some of the best of recorded music.

I sold Advent product in the early days..and remember many, many things about Mr. Kloss and his ground-breaking products.

At the audio store I worked we would compare large Advents to the Yamaha NS-1, Dahlquists and the ESS AMT-1 with the Heil driver....often to have customers like the Advents best!

Once, at the CES in the Drake Hotel in Chicago, I had the pleasure of seeing a videotape (1" Sony?) on the prototype of the Advent Videobeam at 1:00 AM with several of the people from Advent.

Mr. Kloss was truly one of the greatest in the audio/video world. For us audio lovers there is much we owe to the likes of Nelson Pass, Mr. Conrad and Mr. Johnson, Mr. Johnson at ARC...and (thank God) so many more,...but to none do we owe more thanks than Henry Kloss.

Without Mr. Kloss and his Large Advents...the high-end would not have evolved as it did.