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---------------- On 3/3/2003 2:47:02 PM Joshua Ryan Hall wrote: Greetings! I can answer the question about the Heritage Series. It will continue, period. If you want to help, please visit your local Klipsch carrying A/V specialist and ask them to actively display the Heritage Series. The more people you bring to them ready to buy, the more they will be inclined to see the value in placing these models on the floor. --Joshua Ryan Hall ---------------- My local a/v specialist was Tweeter. So now what?????

---------------- On 2/27/2003 5:50:38 PM T.Paul Jacobs wrote: Klipsch takes its leadership role as the number one supplier of high-performance loudspeakers seriously. The sale of audio separates has been declining at 15-20% per year for the last three years. The primary reasons are that times have changed, people have changed and consumer desires have changed. Most specialty manufacturers have remained focused on limited distribution, with little regard to the environment in which many consumers want to buy products. We feel an obligation to try and bring the experience of better audio to a larger audience. As a market leader, we refuse to sit by idly as the market continues to shrink. Klipsch firmly believes our state-of-the-art, high-performance products must always be represented by our highly trained and knowledgeable specialty retailers. We also believe that many consumers in many markets have never had the specialty retail experience, nor are they familiar with what it is. For 2-1/2 years, we have successfully executed our Klipsch ProMedia strategy through Best Buy—connecting with an entirely new customer, giving them their first step-up audio experience with a true high-end audio company in the multimedia space, and educating them on the advantages of our high-performance home loudspeakers, only available through our specialty retail partners. As many specialty retailers migrate toward custom installation, Best Buy is filling the lower mid-fi void in an environment where many highly educated, high-end consumers want to buy. Best Buy will do a great job representing our Synergy Series, enlightening significantly more people to the experience of high performance audio. The natural evolution will be converting many of our best Synergy customers to the ultimate in high-performance loudspeakers—the Reference Series. Paul Klipsch brought the Heresy (non-fully horn-loaded speakers) to market because times had changed, people had changed and consumer desires had changed. He too wanted to reach out and expose more people to the passion of high performance audio. With regard to the new Reference speakers, Klipsch’s top 25 retailers have been in Indianapolis over the last 3 weeks and their unanimous opinion is they are the best sounding line of speakers Klipsch has ever produced. You don’t have to take my word for it, but I encourage you to audition the products when they hit the stores in May. I’ve been with Klipsch for over 11 years and I think these new Reference products are the finest products we’ve ever taken to market. ---------------- If the Reference series is the ultimate in high performance where do the Heritage series fit in? If the Reference series is the finest products you have taken to market does that mean that the Heritage series is going to be discontinued? If so I need to decide if I should order some now or wait and change to a different brand of speaker.