Who we are.
Milestones in our company history.
1979
KS Beschallungstechnik GmbH was founded by Dieter Klein and Wolfgang Steck.
1983
KS AUDIO participates for the fist time at the Frankfurt Musik Messe and ever since.
1984
KS AUDIO presents the World's First Satellite PA system - selfpowered which became the SAT 3.
1985
KS AUDIO presents its first complete line of unpowered pa systems.
1989
KS AUDIO presents the World's First 4 channel power amplifier.
1992
KS AUDIO was honored to be the choice by the German Government to install the sound system in the newely built German Reichstag (Congress) in Berlin.
1993
KS AUDIO presents the World's First wire compensation, an invention which compensates for different lengths of speaker cable runs - called WICOM.
KS AUDIO and Heil (later L Acoustics), both companies introduce for the first time at the Frankfurt Musik Messe a design of a Line Array system, as it is known and popular today.
1995
KS AUDIO presents the World's First FIR controller technology FIRTEC™ application in audio. Commonly known as FIR DSP.
2001
KS AUDIO presents the World's First digital controller, interchangeable in KS 4-channel power amplifiers.
2004
KS AUDIO presents the World's First selfpowered digitally controlled pa with FIRTEC™ filtered DSP.
2008
KS AUDIO presents the World's First HDSP™ “High Definition Sound Projection” system.
2011
KS AUDIO presents the World's First Line Array with a real time motorized curving adjustment combined with equalization adjustment.
2013
KS AUDIO presents the World's highest standard in digital control for power amplifiers
- the F MOD.
KS AUDIO presents the World's smallest selfpowered digitally controlled top box-the CPD 04.
2014
KS AUDIO presents the World's most compact selfpowered digitally contolled fullrange PA box with studio quality sound reproduction
- the CPD 14.
2015
KS AUDIO presents the most compact, easiest to fly large Line Array system with the best audio performance - the U Line.
2019
KS AUDIO presents the CPD 18 with VALTEC™, a world revolution in controlling the vertical dispersion of high-range frequenties by adjusting the curving of the wavefront using Variabel Acoustic Lenses.
2020
KS AUDIO presents the VC LINE, worlds first Line Array with vertical adjustable high-frequency range dispersion, VALTEC™.
A few names we like to share, who worked with KS AUDIO.
Stevie Wonder
Miles Davis
KISS
Amy McDonald
James Taylor
Jay-Z
Chris de Burgh
Foreigner
Toto
BB King
Status Quo
THEATRES
Jiangsu Grand Theatre
Nanjing China
Semper Oper
Dresden Germany
Nansha Children’s Palace
Guangzhou China
Opera Saransk
Saransk Russia
Kammerspiele
Munich Germany
Deventer Schouwburg
Deventer Netherlands
SPORTS ARENAS
Olympic Stadium
Moscow Russia
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Stuttgart Germany
Fraport Arena
Frankfurt Germany
GOVERNMENT
Reichstag
Berlin Germany
City Parliament
Frankfurt Germany
State Parliament
Erfurt Germany
Federal State Parliament NRW
Düsseldorf Germany
MISCELLANEOUS
University Seoul
Seoul South Korea
Anyang Church
South Korea
Bayan Lepas Airport
Penang Malaysia
Buddha Temple
Wuxi China
EKU Center
Richmond KY USA