Source: history

Gold sound-History

4285 South Broadwa y

Englewood, Colorado 80110

303-789-5310

Hours: Tuesday thru Friday: 11AM to 6PM – Saturday: 11AM to 5PM

( 7 Blocks South of Hampden; 6 Blocks North of Belleview )

( Broadway & Quincy )

Serving the Denver area for over 33 years…

Click here for detailed area map

High Quality Audio and Video Equipment

Audiophile ~ Home Theater ~ Pro Sound Equipment

New and Used Equipment

Gold Sound Understands Value…

All equipment is selected upon a quality to value ratio weighted towards very good quality and a good price.

We're proud of what we sell… Unlike big box stores, we offer personal service and no hassle sales.

The History of Gold Sound

FONT color="white" We're open Tues-Friday, 11-6, Saturday 11-5. Recently customers bought home turntables, receivers, amps, tape decks, subs, speakers, etc. The only parts we sell are new home stereo cables, new Grado headphones, new Ortofon & Grado phono cartridges. We only work on units bought here: new speakers, new turntables & vintage audio. Call us at 303 789-5310. Thanks for your support for over 49 years.

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

Visitors since Jan 2001

Copyright © 2008 GoldSound, Inc.

Join our all new OPT-IN email program and get the latests updates and special sales:

You can also easily

OPT-OUT anytime.

On Stage at Gold Sound

Parasound A23 Power Amp and the P-3 Preamp.

Wow.. .

Double Wow… First class audiophile sound, great looking and superb build quality. Icing on the cake: reasonable pricing…

read more >

Pro-Ject Turntables

Another great audiophile product line from Sumiko.

Excellent sounding turntables, great looking great values and reviews. Also availabl e built-in pre-amp and USB for connection to computer.

We have a good selection of used turntables. We also have new cartridges, stylus and needles. Call us with the brand and/or model number to check if we have a replacement part for your cartridge at: 303-789-5310.

FREE Gold Sound Seminar

UPLOADING your music from Vinyl – LPs – Albums or Tape TO your Computer, THEN Recording TO CDs or DVDs

We don't have a date set just yet. Please call or email, if your interested in attending.

sales@goldsound.net

Source: staff

established 1976

4285 S. Broadway, Englewood CO 80110

Call 303-789-5310 or E-mail Gold Sound Sales

Gold Sound Senior Staff

Ron Gold

President/Owner

Return to Home Page

Visitors since Jan 2001

Copyright © 2000 Gold Sound