the nightfly

Hi! I must admit I've never owned Klipsch (although, in my dreams, I would have had a pair of K-horns from my teen years), but I found this thread when searching for information about the Music Box, and had to jump in. In the early '70s, when I was in my mid-teens, the Music Box was home-away-from-home for me. It was located two doors down from a musical-instrument store where I took guitar lessons, and the two stores were where I did almost all of my record shopping (the musical-instrument store for bootlegs that they alone would carry, the Music Box for, initially, 45s -- I still remember the wall display they had of the weekly "top thirty singles" just to the left of the cashier's desk, between it and the audio room -- then popular albums, and eventually classical as my interest in that genre grew). I spent many hours in the audio room as well, and remember the owner being one of the few people in audio retail at the time who was frankly dismissive of the notion of quadraphonic sound -- I wonder how much of that was due to the unlikelihood of finding a suitable room where you could put K-horns in all four corners? At any rate, it was also where I purchased my own first stereo gear; in my case, a KLH Model 11W that would be suitable for a dorm room. Obviously, I eventually wound up in college several states away, so only dropped by during vacations, and then my parents moved to the West Coast in 1978, so that was the last time I was in the Boston area. I figured the Music Box would be long gone, but am surprised to learn that it lasted until the owner's retirement in the '90s. Given the fate of most non-chain audio retailers, I would have guessed it would have been gone well before that, especially after Tech HiFi opened a branch a block away. Looking at Google StreetView, it appears the location is now an OrangeTheory Fitness. Sic transit gloria mundi... P.S.: I see that Mr. Bell passed away in 2014. https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obituary/william-h-bell/