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GOLD SOUND History

    Thanks to your support, Gold Sound has grown & thrived for over 34 years.

1926 Ron's Dad, Irving Gold, builds his first AM
          breadboard cat whisker radio
1943  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
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 of these systems use Gold Sound designed &
     built 4-way systems with multiple 15" woofers &
    horn-loaded 12" midbass, plus midrange &
     tweeter horns.
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
January 1990, Awarded International CES
    Innovation award
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
2008, Gold Sound wins "Best of Englewood" award
October, 2008, Gold Sound is the only Colorado
     dealer featured in Stereophile's on-line blog
January, 2009, Gold Sound is the only Colorado
    dealer in January, 2010, Stereophile

This page last updated -07/16/10