Celebration kicks off Thursday March 7 at 6 p.m. with event check-in. We will have the loudspeakers playing tunes in the Visitors Center and outside at the Tin Shed #2. The Annual Membership Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

Fun continues Friday March 8 at the Visitors Center with loudspeakers playing inside and outside starting at Noon. Curator Jim Hunter guides a Klipsch Museum of Audio History tour from 2 until 4 p.m. Then it's back to the Visitors Center Friday evening as Chief Bonehead fires up his grill to serve Bonehead Fajitas. Around 7:30 p.m. Trey Johnson takes the Tin Shed #2 stage for live music.

Saturday March 9 head to the Klipsch Factory for the Chief Bonehead Class in the Audio Lab from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. You MUST check-in Thursday or Friday at the Visitors Center to receive your pass to the class! Come back to the Visitors Center around 6 p.m. to celebrate PWK's birthday with BBQ and The Moss Brothers on the Tin Shed #2 stage.

PAVE THE WAY Brick byBrick - CAMPAIGN DETAILS

Fundraising goal: $20,000

Campaign Kickoff: September 18, 2023

Installation: Outside the KHMA Visitors Center / Large bricks (8x8) will be

placed as pictured around a small pond and the (4x8) bricks will be placed as a foot path around the outer edges and beyond.

The Dope From Hope Book

The first-ever publication of Paul W. Klipsch’s cult audio newsletters 'Dope From Hope'.

22.03.11 - The Klipsch Museum Of Audio History will be hosting an auction during the week of the Paul W. Klipsch Birthday Bash. The auction will take place at the Klipsch Education Center (near the Hope Airport) on March 11, after the annual museum members meeting at 10am. The items to be auctioned include a pair of Klipschorn loudspeakers. For more details please click here for the item list.

Prove it to me: How Hempstead and surrounding communities’ proving grounds produced not only area jobs, created a “legend in sound'“, and helped win World War II.

Klipsch Museum Association making progress with Talbot Fieldhouse renovations.

The Klipsch Museum Of Audio History was featured in the Sunday edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

The Klipsch Museum of Audio History in Hope is a find not just for audiophiles, but for those who are wanting to learn more about one of the most interesting audio pioneers of our era.

KHMA, in cooperation with KGI, supplied the speakers for this event. The movie is still in mono, so a splayed pair of KP-396’s comprised the center cluster, and a KP-1802 provided the last couple of octaves. We were told that the man who originally scored the movie heard things he had never heard before. Sound familiar?

Time capsule update: The Hope Prescott News is a new publication that fills that void left by the defunct Hope Star, Hope’s long-time newspaper. We thank them for the local coverage. With education integral to our Mission and Vision, it is great to see The Klipsch Museum (and curator Jim Hunter) standing with representatives of the Hope Public Schools in this Bicentennial pay-it-forward effort.

A RARE BEAST 

In addition to the legendary acoustics and impressive upgrades already included in the AK6, the Klipsch Museum of Audio History is proud to offer a limited production of one (1) pair of unique Museum Edition Klipschorns – Numbered AK6 ME-001 and AK6 ME-002 – with official documentation verifying their provenance.

Paul Klipsch has been considered by many to be the epitome of the “self-made man”. However, he would be quick to tell you that he “stood on the shoulders of giants”. Having friends in strategic places also greased the skids for Paul. While we do not have his earliest contacts with Sherman Fairchild, it is clear from over 200 pages of correspondence that this industry titan took many opportunities to help out “the little guy”. Never heard of Fairchild? Take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Fairchild.

The earliest correspondence so far discovered is from May 1944. Paul wrote to Sherman about the lack of bass response from Sherman’s 1943 “Klipschorn” woofer. The woofer was built by Sherman’s carpenter from early drawings supplied by PWK, and it still utilized a 12” driver. The system was illustrated in The Architectural Forum of April 1943. This was before Paul’s own HF horn was designed, so a Western Electric multicell horn was utilized. Paul’s bass performance “diagnosis by letter” took quite a while, but eventually resulted in his visit to Sherman’s  New York City penthouse, and the application of “about 2 pounds of putty” to stop some serious air-leaks. Earlier correspondence to Sherman from Altec Lansing’s John Hilliard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Hilliard  expressed Hilliard’s doubt in the performance of the yet-to-be named Klipschorn, as compared to larger cinema speakers. The putty removed those doubts!

The Klipsch Museum is located in Hempstead County Arkansas.  December 15, 1818 saw its creation under the Missouri Territory, and actually pre-dates the creation of the state of Arkansas.  It was one of the three original counties, and now compromises eleven modern counties.  It even included parts of what is now Texas and Oklahoma. 

As part of the celebration, a time capsule is being buried for eventual opening in 2068.  KHMA was asked to supply as much as “1.5 inches” of 8½ X 11 paper documentation relative to one of the county’s most celebrated residents, Paul W. Klipsch.  Well, as PWK would have said, “That’s like waving a bull in front of a red flag!”  It didn’t take long (but several toner cartridges!) to amass KHMA’s input.  Rest assured, the capsule is welded-shut, ¼” stainless steel, with the contents vacuum-dried and subjected to Argon gas more than once.