ListenUp Boulder

Locally owned and nationally known, ListenUp Boulder has been Colorado’s leading dealer, designer and integrator of high-performance audio/video & control systems since 1972. Hi-Fi Audio, Home Theater, Televisions, Projectors, Speakers, receivers, Blu-ray, LCD/LED/Plasma, Networked Audio plus superior service.

Established in 1972.
Walt Stinson and Steven Weiner founded ListenUp with one purpose: to provide the very best in sound reproduction. Over the years that goal has expanded to include categories such as high-definition video and control systems. Longtime Denver residents may remember that in the ’70s, ListenUp created the sound system and did live radio broadcasts for Ebbets Field, the legendary nightclub. A few years later the company created a state-of-the-art sound system and recording set-up at the Rainbow Music Hall. An early adopter of digital technology, ListenUp sold the most CD players in the country for 1983, and for several years the company also offered the broadest selection of discs in the country, which further hastened acceptance of the then revolutionary technology. In 2005, ListenUp created a Reference Theater that was the subject of a cover story by Home Theater magazine. In 2009, ListenUp co-founder Walt Stinson was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.

Evan S.
Manager
We asked Evan Stinson when he started working at ListenUp. “If you ask me I’d say when I was seven, but if you ask the IRS — and maybe child services — it was closer to 1997… Embarrassingly enough, I can’t remember the exact date!” Well, that’s understandable, considering his parents founded the company and he’s been around it his entire life.
“For obvious reasons, I’ve always been interested in electronics, I once built a ham radio inside of an Altoids can, and, I’m not bragging or anything, but I built a speaker and won second place in my elementary school science fair, too,” he laughs. Evan has also worked in varying capacities at ListenUp, including in the warehouse, doing deliveries, as an installer, as a project manager in our Custom Division, and now as manager of our Boulder store.
“It’s really a great business to be in because we get to play with all the cool new gadgets, it keeps me mentally active, and almost every job is different, so everyday is new and exciting.”