Sean Casey


FOUNDER, R&D, ENGINEERING, WACKED SOUND GUY

“When an innovation and tangible products based company loses it’s “hands-on” connection with the thing it makes—choosing to maximize margin instead of product performance—originality is lost and the product debased. Take Western Electric, Edison, RCA, Tesla, Altec, and so many others / when product innovation and quality fails to be the motivating force, sayonara to inspiration and personal satisfaction.”

Husband and father of three. Born in 1970 and the old man of the group. Life alongside audio consists of family adventures, motorcycles, snowboarding, and anything else the mountains of Ogden can offer up. While Sean attended college for several years, his education in physics has largely been self taught and tightly focused in the fields of acoustics and electrodynamics. He has been a professional in the audio industry since 1986, less a few years working with the late great Ron “Ogre" Griewe in the motorcycle industry.

“Most of us here at Zu have been ‘into it’ for way too long. I picked up a pair of used Klipsch LaScala loudspeakers at the age of 14, worked my butt off trying to get them sounding just right, replacing caps, inductors, even bi-amping and line-level processing, eventually looking at wire and cable and my grandpa’s stash of U.S. military cable and wire stock. Ahhh, nothing like digging through racks and racks of super cool, perfectly state-of-the-art junk. A kind of sickness I know—I still remember what that 1/4” phone connector felt and sounded like when I first got the chance to help patch a sound system together—yeah, a kinda sick we're really into.”


My daughter made me name this photos Bigfoot Daddy... working on tweeters. 2008 


The crazy artsy self portrait. I think it's cool. 2000


Self portrait 2006, going to the Arctic Circle, scooter just adds to the adventure. In real life it's a Buell XB12X that takes me there.


Phonograph pickup makin' 2007


2006, Ian Casey & the late Lars Norlund.


The whole family, less dad who's taken the photo. 2007 Coldwater Canyon, Ogden.