Gold sound-History

GOLD SOUND History

    Thanks to your support, Gold Sound has grown & thrived for over 40 years.

1926 Ron's Dad, Irving Gold, builds his first AM
          breadboard cat whisker radio
1944  Irving Gold works on the first remote,
          electronically-controlled turret guns on B29
         aircraft. Works with new small company,
         IBM & receives the Silver Star medal for
          his gunsight design
1958  Ron Gold helps Dad fixing tube TVs & amps
1961 Ron Gold builds his first Knight-kit radio
1965 Ron Gold builds his first 3-way speaker
1965 Ron Gold builds an electric guitar using a
     turntable cartridge as the pickup
1966 Ron Gold modifies his first amplifier, tube
    Harman-Kardon Citations
1966 Ron Gold researches perfect pitch at
     Interlochen Music Camp
1967 Ron Gold fixes & modifies his first short-
    wave, a 1937 tube Hallicrafter S20
1967 Ron Gold studies music at University of
    Michigan summer school at Interlochen, MI
1968-72 Ron Gold studies music at Columbia
     University, NY, NY
1969 Ron Gold designs & builds his first electronic
     music tone control
1975 Ron Gold studies sound recording &
     reinforcement at University of Colorado, Denver
Feb. 1976, Gold Sound begins; in our first year,
     customers include State of Colorado, the First
    Baptist Church of Denver & National Jewish
     Hospital
1977-1981 Gold Sound provides sound for all the
     stages at the Capitol Hill People's Fair*
1978 Gold Sound provides sound for the
     Central City Jazz Festival*
1979 Gold Sound provides sound for the
     Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival*
1979 Gold Sound provides sound for Jackson
     Browne & Bonnie Raitt*
*All systems used Gold Sound designed & built
     speakers with multiple 15" woofers & horn-
     loaded 12" midbass, mid & tweeter horns, all
    with electronic crossovers.
1980 Ron Gold studies solar design at
     University of Colorado, Denver
1981 Gold Sound provides sound for Willie Nelson
     at Denver's Mammoth Gardens
1982 Ron Gold studies architectural acoustics at
     University of Colorado, Denver
1983 TODAY Show features Gold Sound
1986-90 INSTALLATION NEWS has five
     articles featuring Gold Sound speakers
1986-90 Gold Sound speakers installed in tour
    buses, etc., for Cyndi Lauper, Dennis Rodman &
     Chuck Mangione
1988 Gold Sound speakers installed in all U.S.
    Citroen models
May 1990 Purchase of our present location,
     4285 South Broadway
1990-91 DENVER POST, ROCKY MOUNTAIN
     NEWS & DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL have
     articles & photos of Gold Sound
1991-92 NASA buys Gold Sound designed
     speaker systems to produce the sound of a
     rocket blast-off in their Langley, VA laboratory
1992 Boeing buys Gold Sound designed
     speaker systems
1992-2008 Lockheed-Martin buys Gold Sound
   designed speaker systems
2008-2015 Gold Sound wins "Best of Englewood"
    award
October, 2009, Gold Sound is the only Colorado
     dealer featured in STEREOPHILE's on-line blog
**January, 2010 Gold Sound is the only Colorado
    dealer in any 2010 STEREOPHILE
February, 2011 Gold Sound is in February, 2011      ABSOLUTE SOUND
July, 2011 DENVER POST South Hub has a full

    page & color photos, all about Gold Sound.
October 2012 STEREOPHILE praises Gold Sound's
   RMAF display of Focal, Cambridge & VPI
October 2014 Ron Gold leads RMAF Seminar on
    vintage & new tube amps with Kevin Deal of
    Prima Luna & Charles Kirmus of Dared &
    Rogers Loudspeakers
February 2016  Gold Sound is in business for
     over 40 years
October 5, 2016  Gold Sound has a seminar with Andrew Jones,
    world-famous speaker engineer for Elac, KEF, Pioneer, TAD &
   Infinity with the world debut of the new Elac integrated amplifier.

** "Gold Sound debuted Parasound's Halo JC3 MC/MM phono preamp, with balanced & single-ended [RCA] outputs & the new budget Z phono preamp. Both Parasound's Richard Schramm & legendary designer John Curl were on hand.
    The Gold Sound room was where Ortofon launched Cadenza, a new line of MC cartridges which include a Mono as well as Red, Blue, Bronze & Black models. The top of the line, the Cadenza Black, sports a nude Shibata stylus attached to a boron cantilever." STEREOPHILE 1/2010

This page last updated - 10/28/21