80 years of horn DNA meets 20 years of obsession. 600 pairs. That’s it.
April 2026, Milan. During the week of Salone del Mobile, when furniture and fashion take over the city — Klipsch brought a speaker to the Fondazione Luigi Rovati museum.
An audio brand choosing a museum at a design fair. That choice alone is a statement.
Klipsch was founded in 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, by Paul W. Klipsch, who set out with one goal: reproduce the power and detail of live music in a living room. His method was always the horn. Horn-loaded speakers are efficient and low in distortion — they deliver large sound from small amplifiers. Klipsch has walked that road for 80 years.
Devon Turnbull goes by Ojas. He studied audio engineering at university, then spent years crossing between graffiti, music, graphic design, and fashion — co-founding the clothing brand Nom de Guerre in 2003. For a decade in fashion, the Ojas name stayed alive through horn speakers he built for himself and a growing circle of audiophiles. He held curated listening events at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on systems entirely of his own design. Twenty years in the audio underground. Then in 2024, he met Klipsch. The kO-R1: 100 pairs, $8,498, sold out immediately.
The kO-R2 is the next chapter.
The architecture is familiar. Two-way sectoral horn-loaded. But the scale has changed entirely. Where the kO-R1 was a reinterpretation of the Klipsch Heresy in bookshelf form, the kO-R2 is a floorstander. 116cm tall. Larger, more ambitious, more complex.
At the center is the Ojas 1506 multisectoral horn — fabricated from heavy cast aluminum, finished with electrophoresis and flat black powder coat. Its geometry draws from the Western Electric KS12025 throat expansion and the faceted character of Altec multicellular horns, delivering precise, even frequency distribution across both horizontal and vertical planes. Low frequencies are handled by the Klipsch K-33-E, a 15-inch fiber-composite cone woofer. Cabinet: Baltic birch plywood. Finishes: Red Oak veneer or Hammertone Silver. A five-step high-frequency gain attenuator sits at the top.
“Working with Klipsch continues to be an exploration of how we can strip audio down to its most essential, emotional core,” Turnbull said. “The technology disappears and the listener is left with a pure, physical connection to the music.”
600 pairs worldwide. North America $11,998/pair, August 2026. APAC and EMEA $13,998/pair. Listening sessions by appointment have been running across cities since the Milan debut. As with the kO-R1, they will move quickly.
Editor’s Note
Klipsch had many options for an 80th anniversary. Retro colorways. Commemorative packaging. A heritage reissue. Instead, they called an artist and rebuilt the speaker from scratch — then unveiled it in an art museum during a furniture fair.
There are people who treat speakers like instruments. Who read the history of Western Electric in the geometry of a horn. When that person meets 80 years of factory craft in Hope, Arkansas, what comes out is the kO-R2. That question and that answer are both worth the price of admission.
Klipsch × Ojas kO-R2 | klipsch.com / ojas.store
North America $11,998/pair (August 2026) | APAC · EMEA $13,998/pair
Type: 2-way sectoral horn-loaded floorstanding | 600 pairs worldwide
Horn: Ojas 1506 multisectoral, heavy cast aluminum | Woofer: Klipsch K-33-E 15″
Crossover: 2-way passive | 5-step HF gain attenuator
Finishes: Red Oak veneer · Hammertone Silver | Handcrafted: Hope, Arkansas, USA
