Paul Wilbur Klipsch the Life...the Legend [Hardcover]

Maureen Barrett (Author), Michael Klementovich (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Netsource Dist Services (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582442266
• ISBN-13: 978-1582442266
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,338,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is not a biography of Paul Klipsch, May 24, 2004

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Steven A. Boggs (Ashford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paul Wilbur Klipsch the Life...the Legend (Hardcover)

This is one of the worst biographies I have ever read. In fact is it not a biography of Paul Klipsch at all. It is a tribute to him by his second wife, ghost written by the authors. Paul's life before his second wife hardly exists. We learn almost nothing of his life with his first wife. Worse, the technical aspects of Paul's life are almost ignored. Paul W. Klipsch was a great engineer, an entrepreneur, and a great man for what he did with his money (an Engineering school is named after him for his extensive support). But what made all this possible were the technical innovations which he brought to the audio industry, and these nontechnical authors don't have a clue what that is all about. So this is not a biography of Paul W. Klipsch. A better title would be "My Life with Paul W. Klipsch" by his Second Wife.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, February 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Paul Wilbur Klipsch the Life...the Legend (Hardcover)

I bought this book intending to dislpay it near my vintage stereo system that features a pair of Klipsch La Scala speakers. That will not be happening. This book is amateurishly written and poorly edited. Stories are told and then repeated again at length only pages later. The authors set up each chapter by describing some virtuous attribute of this man they so obviously adore and then proceed to describe someone quite the opposite (for example, they report that the "extremely open minded" Mr. Klipsch impulsively ripped the radio out of his car to avoid listening to music that was not to his tastes). Remove the "filler" - pages of patent specifications, pictures, lists of awards - and there remains precious little content, far less than one would expect in summarizing the life of such a legendary personality.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only a fraction of the story as told by PWK wannabes, December 7, 2005

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Legendary Loudspeakers (Arkansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paul Wilbur Klipsch the Life...the Legend (Hardcover)

The authors of this poorly written biography may have met the man in his twilight years and obviously garnered their information from very limited resources. Therfore only a mere part of the real story has been told and indeed a biased one at that. P. Wilbur, as his closest associates knew him, was robbed of his legacy by a bunch of wannabes and they told their side of the story which is now in print for their own benefit. I gave it one star for the fact that it does document some of his achievements.