Kurt Koesler began our audio business in 1976, on a back lot at Columbia Pictures in Hollywood. Touring sound was our first love––there was mystery and wonder in big-ass loudspeakers for large audiences at rock and roll concerts. We built thousands over the years, and added stage monitors, road racks, equipment cases and all the rest. Successful musicians and their roadies were our customers, and we had to satisfy both, year after year. That meant our stuff had to work really well, last pretty much forever and not cost any more than it had to. Only the strong survived.

Life on the road got pretty nuts, though, you know how that is. Family life inspired a slow morph from strength into beauty as well, into production furniture for records, film and video. Tape-based technology had its own mystery and wonder, and vinyl LPs sounded better than CDs well into the 90s. Analog was everything, and vice versa.

Life in the studio was a huge improvement; producers and engineers are far more sane than promoters and roadies. Without caring less about strength, they care still more about beauty. Like most people, though, they want those virtues in products that don't cost more than they have to. And that's the name of our particular game. Still, after all these years, it is our core definition of value.

Technology aside, not all that much has changed in thirty years. Musicians are still our reason for existing, and the music is still why we love it so. We were on the Dark Side of the Moon with Pink Floyd, and with the Moody Blues at the loudest concert ever performed––over 135 db, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Most hardcore rock and rollers may not recognize the artistic merits or the differences among Techno, Trance and Reggaeton, but we do. And our musician clients range artistically from Barry Manilow to Snoop Dogg to growing evangelical praise singers.

Clients in the early stages of their careers, buying utility racks they assemble themselves, are reassured by our legacy of partnership with the media giants of the world. In the last quarter of '05 alone, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers combined installed over 100 custom workstations from us. They give us permission to offer the same units to you, and now we do. Thanks, guys!

We're a jeans and tee shirt kind of place, but we're more than an LA business, we're more like an institution here. We maintain a local showroom, and more than half of our business is custom work for individual musicians, producers and engineers––in addition to our corporate partnerships. We are not a marketing-driven company. Rather, we are proud of our products and our ethics. We never hustle anybody, we don't offer discounts, and we don't inflate prices to support large advertising budgets––or lavish lifestyles. All you pay for is the product, and it always costs what it has to, not a penny more.

Satisfying creative and successful people, over and over again, is what we've done best for more than thirty years. We hope you're next.

Prosperity,

KK Audio Inc.

 

KK Audio featured in a round table discussion of Pro Audio topics on the April 1st episode of AudioNowcast