About Wiseacre Audio

We are a pint-sized designer and builder of artisan high-fidelity music systems. Ugh..that sounds like business buzzwords from someone's resume.  Let me try that again.

We deliver fine quality sound from artful machines featuring glowy tubes, clicky switches, exquisite hardwoods, polished metal, and giant capacitors. Tickling your brain, appealing to most of your senses (do NOT lick/taste/eat our amplifiers), we help you enable the perfect set and setting for active listening.

Why own a vacuum tube amplifier that weights over 40 lbs? Because it looks freakin' cool! And it sounds pretty good too.  But a lot of things sound pretty good, so...why, again?

Because this is rebellion against soulless black-box automated minimalism. We believe that obfuscating the working parts of technology is a bad thing. You can see the active components inside a vacuum tube.  You know, intuitively, that the energized plates in there are doing *something* to amplify your music, without even knowing the theory behind it. Experiencing your music with sonic transparency and a 3-dimensional soundstage being reproduced by an artfully designed, hand-built, precision engineered machine while you gaze at its inner-workings silently laboring away is fully engaging. Invite your friends over, put your phone down, and listen to a record.

This is acknowledging that you hear with ears, but listen with your brain and the rest of your body.

We...the royal we, you know, the editorial?  Jared Bishop, head wiseacre,  chief designer, and pie-crust aficionado has an opinion on just about everything. Contact jared@wiseacreaudio.com at your own risk.