About Chairspeaker

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It all started with my father watching TV at a very high volume. He had hearing aids, a surround sound system and still could not hear the TV the way he wanted. One day while sitting in his chair he held his hands up near his ears and said "I wish I just had small little speakers right here on my chair."

I looked to see what was on the market that would meet his needs. We tried TV Ears, headphones and other products. We found nothing worked the way he wanted. So we started looking at what it would take to develop this product. After years of working to get the design working and dozens of prototypes we started KARE, LLC.

We decided to establish KARE in the memory of the late Kenneth and Audrey Root, the two most important people in founders' life. Our family has suffered genetically from hearing issues for multiple generations. We cannot hear properly especially when there is so much sound everywhere. We cannot identify the words. As a family, we feel quite detached in public as we cannot hear whatever is happening around us. To diminish the impacts of hearing issues on people, we started this company.

KARE, LLC was a company formed in the memory of the late Kenneth and Audrey Root. The E was added to give the company name an identifiable meaning, KARE.