Gold sound-History

GOLD SOUND History

    Thanks to your support, Gold Sound has thrived for over 49 years.

1926 Ron's Dad, Irving Gold, builds his first AM readboard cat whisker radio.
1944  Irving Gold works on the first remote controlled, radar-guided ball turret guns on B29 planes, working with IBM. He's awarded the Silver Star medal for his gunsight design.
1958 Ron Gold helps Dad fixing tube TVs and 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 on the bridge as the pickup.
1966 Ron Gold modifies his first amp, a tube Harman-Kardon.
1966 Ron Gold researches perfect pitch at Interlochen Music Camp.
1967 Ron Gold has his first preamp and power amp, tube Harman-Kardon Citations.
1967 Ron Gold fixes and 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
1970 Ron Gold visits N.Y. speaker manufacturers Ohm Acoustics, Rectilinear Research and Becker.
1970 Ron Gold receives commendatory letter from Benjamin Elec., importer of Elac and Miracord turntables.
1975 Ron Gold studies sound recording and reinforcement at University of Colorado, Denver; Roy Pritts, Chairman of the Music Dept., asks Ron Gold to teach the class about professional speakers and studio monitors.
Feb. 1976, Gold Sound begins. Early customers include State of Colorado, the First Baptist Church of Denver, National Jewish Hospital.
1977-1981 Gold Sound provides sound for every stage at the Capitol Hill People's Fair, Denver*
1978 Gold Sound provides sound for Paul Simon in Denver* Gold Sound provides sound the Central City Jazz Festival*
1979 Gold Sound provides sound for the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival*
1979 Gold Sound provides sound for country swing band Asleep at the Wheel in Colorado Springs*
1979 Gold Sound provides sound for Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt*
*All systems used Gold Sound designed and custom built speakers with multiple 15" woofers; horn-loaded 12" midbass: midrange and tweeter horns 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, nationally syndicated, features Gold Sound
1986-90 INSTALLATION NEWS has five articles about speaker design, featuring Gold Sound speakers
1986-90 Gold Sound speakers installed in tour busses, etc., for Cyndi Lauper, Dennis Rodman and 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 and DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL have articles and photos of Gold Sound.
1991-92 NASA buys Gold Sound designed speaker systems and crossovers to produce the sound of rocket blast-off in their Langley, VA. laboratory
1992 Boeing buys Gold Sound designed speaker systems for their flight simulators.
1992-2008 Lockheed-Martin buys Gold Sound designed speaker systems.
2008-2020 Gold Sound wins "Best of Englewood" awards.
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 with color photos about Gold Sound.
October 2012. STEREOPHILE praises Gold Sound's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest display amps, speakers and turntables.
October 2014. Ron Gold leads RMAF Seminar on vintage and new tube amps with Kevin Deal of Prima Luna.

"Gold Sound debuted new JC3 MC/MM phono preamps, 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 - 4/5/25