Here's where you can find out a little more about some of our valued associates, who average 17 years in the A/V business and 12 years with ListenUp.

Sales Consultant
Employee Since 1978

Contact Bill

Sales Consultant
We suspect Bill Rollin has an aging portrait of himself in his attic, because he actually looks the same as he did in 1975 — hair-do and all. Back then, Bill, a confirmed audiophile, had just bought a new system from a local dealer when he ended up having dinner with ListenUp owners Walt Stinson and Steven Weiner. After proudly listing the elements of his new rig he asked the guys what they thought. “I think it’s crap,” said Walt, who went on to explain that the performance of the once-proud audio brands in Bill’s set-up had greatly deteriorated over the years.

Convincing Bill to return the other system, Walt and Steven began bringing components to his house for an extended audition. After three weeks Bill bought a separates-based system with Magnaplanar speakers, and he’s been a loyal ListenUp customer ever since. Of course, he’s also been an employee since 1978, when Walt offered him a job.

Bill became manager of the Pro division in 1979, overseeing the installation of the sound system at CU’s Folsom Field, among others. He later headed up the team that created the state-of-the-art system at Bill Daniels’ home (an abode so advanced it earned its own name: “Cableland”) in 1986, and the next year he took over the helm of ListenUp’s newly dedicated custom install department.

He still gets a kick out of creating integrated systems and taking the technology as far as it will go, but Bill’s eyes really light up when he relates a visit to the recent Rocky Mountain Audiofest. “I was in heaven. It was really cool to be around all these high-end two-channel companies that are still trying to achieve the perfect sound — which is why we all got in this in the first place.”

Sales Consultant
Employee Since 1997

Contact Evan

Sales Consultant
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. He’s also worked in varying capacities at ListenUp, including in the warehouse, doing deliveries, as an installer, in support at our Denver store and now as salesman in our Custom Division.

“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.”

Evan loves spending time in the mountains, four-wheeling, spelunking, snowboarding and all types of music. He also DJs in his free time, but no word on whether he made the turntables out of Altoids cans…

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