Klipsch Audio Technologies (pronounced /ˈklɪpʃ/) is a consumer and professional speaker company based in the United States. Founded in Hope, Arkansas in 1946 by Paul Klipsch as Klipsch and Associates, it produces loudspeaker drivers and enclosures, as well as complete loudspeakers for high end, high fidelity sound systems, public address applications, and personal computers. Since its inception, Klipsch has promoted the use of horn-loaded speakers as part of its goal to produce speakers which: The company advocates the superiority of horns for the aforementioned properties, but some audiophiles[who?] decry horns as having a coloring of the sound sometimes described as "honkiness".

Early Klipsch designs utilized a metal-throated horn whose aperture tended to exacerbate this phenomenon. In recent years, Klipsch introduced horns of braced fiberglass which were said to alleviate resonances that colored the earlier, metal designs. Klipsch also moved away from silk to different driver-diaphragm materials like phenolic, aluminum and titanium, and in 1989 they introduced a midrange horn with a tractrix flare which was said to further reduce "honkiness" and create a more open sound quality.

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