White-water rafting guide, EMT at Monarch ski area, head of production at the No Fear apparel company — Carl Mueller has had some pretty eclectic work experience. He’s also been a confirmed analog audio fiend and worked in the A/V industry on and off for over 20 years. Carl went back to college in his mid-thirties and got his degree from Western State (Gunnison residents might remember him as that guy behind the keg fiddling with the cassette deck).

A salesman in the Colorado Springs store since 1994 (with a few-year break in between), Carl enjoys the fact that “ListenUp gives us the freedom to be who we are. We don’t have to sell a specific stack of boxes — we can listen to the customer and be free to create new ideas and be enthusiastic. After all, if I’m not excited about the system, how can I expect the client to be?”