Drafted into the service during the Korean War, Kloss dropped out of MIT and would never complete his degree. He purchased woodworking tools in order to make furniture for his apartment, but instead became involved in audio, building enclosures for a speaker system designed by an MIT professor and his student to improve the sound of live FM broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. To support his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he entered in 1948, Kloss worked part-time for a contractor. As a boy, he was a precocious builder, adding rooms and bathroom fixtures to the cabin he shared with his mother and two sisters. Legendary audio engineer Henry Kloss was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1929 and raised in the area. In addition, the company sells through its own catalog and a sister Web site,, and Creative Labs distributes its multimedia speakers around the world.

Cambridge SoundWorks sells to the New York market through an exclusive distribution deal with J&R Music and Computer World, a major electronic retailer in the city. Products are sold through 24 retail locations, with 12 located in Massachusetts, seven in California, three in New Hampshire, and two in Maine. is a subsidiary of Creative Technology and manufactures a wide range of speaker systems for home stereo, home theater, car audio, and personal computers. Located outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Cambridge SoundWorks, Inc. In fact, we don't sell anything we wouldn't recommend to our very best friends or own ourselves.ДЎ953: Henry Kloss co-founds Acoustic Research.ДЎ988: Kloss and Thomas DeVesto start Cambridge SoundWorks.ДЎ996: Kloss retires from Cambridge SoundWorks.ДЎ997: Creative Technology buys the company. NAIC: 334310 Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Creative Technology, Inc.

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