Gold sound-History

GOLD SOUND History

    Thanks to your support, Gold Sound has thrived for over 50 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, 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. A recent book, THE BIRTH of LOUD, tells how Leo Fender used this design for his first electric guitar.
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's speaker designs receive commendatory letter from Benjamin Electronics., importer and distributor of Elac and Miracord turntables, plus EMI speakers.
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. At the N.Y. AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY Convention about 20 year later, Ron meets Roy Pritts and Les Paul.
Feb. 1976 Gold Sound begins. Early customers include State of Colorado, the First Baptist Church of Denver, National Baptist Assembly and National Jewish Hospital.
1977-1981 Gold Sound designs and builds the speakers and provides sound for these Colorado events and concerts: the Capitol Hill People's Fair [4 years] Paul Simon; the Central City Jazz Festival; Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival; the country swing band Asleep at the Wheel; Jackson Browne; Bonnie Raitt; and Willie Nelson.
Above systems used Gold Sound designed and custom built speakers with multiple 15" woofers; horn-loaded 12" in wood custom-built horns; midrange and tweeter horns, all with electronic crossovers.
1970-95 Ron Gold meets Audio Founding Fathers Avery Fisher, Paul Klipsch and Saul Marantz, plus pioneering engineers Roy Allison [AR and Allison speakers], Bob Carver [Phase Linear, Carver, Sunfire] Paul Klipsch and Ed Laurent [Dynaco tube amps].
1982 Ron Gold studies Passive Solar design at University of Colorado, Denver

1982 Ron Gold studies Architectural Acoustics at University of Colorado, Denver
1983 TODAY Show, nationally syndicated, features Gold Sound
1986-90 Ron Gold writes five articles about speaker design, featuring Gold Sound speakers for INSTALLATION NEWS.
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.
1990 The International Consumer Electronics Show, CES, awards Gold Sound their Innovation Award for Ron Gold's electronic crossover design.
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 1977-2025 Innovations for amplifiers, speaker systems, test equipment, etc, from Ron Gold appear in U.S. and Japanese products.

This page last updated - 6/15/26