Our workshop is in the Arizona high desert. Your speakers are designed, built, tested, and calibrated by the same person who installs them in your home — and he builds and installs every system personally. No shipping. No middlemen. No subcontractors. Just a local craftsman building custom audio for Arizona homeowners.
Mike and his team did a fantastic job on my whole home audio. He also installed a whole home wireless system, and hung and installed every TV in the house to perfection, running everything off our central hub.
Mike is the best. Knowledgeable. Competitively priced. He follows up, shows up on time, takes the time to finish the job right. If you're looking for great quality at the best price, Mike is your man.
The sound is even better than it was before and I didn't lose a dime in the process. Once again, the service was above and beyond, and the expert advice was spot on!
Prescott's housing stock is unlike anywhere else in Arizona. Mountain cabins with exposed timber ceilings and stone fireplaces along the Prescott National Forest. Custom-built homes with open great rooms and vaulted pine beams. Working ranches out in Chino Valley with wide-open floor plans. Newer construction in Prescott Valley with standard drywall and typical room dimensions.
Each one presents a different acoustic environment. Log construction absorbs and diffuses sound differently than drywall. Stone walls create hard reflections that need to be accounted for in speaker placement and calibration. Timber-frame ceilings with exposed beams create uneven overhead reflections. And at 5,400 feet, Prescott's thinner air affects how sound waves travel across a room — something most manufacturers never test for because they design at sea level.
We've installed systems in all of these home types across the tri-city area. Every project starts with understanding what your specific space does to sound, then building a system that works with it instead of against it.
This is what makes buying speakers from a dedicated builder fundamentally different from ordering from a catalog. Every client gets access to our online portfolio system where you can follow your build in real time — photos and updates at every stage from raw panels to finished speakers. You'll see the CNC cutting your cabinet panels, the assembly process, the driver installation, and the final bench testing — all documented and shared with you as it happens.
Every WubWub Audio speaker goes through bench testing using professional measurement microphones and analysis software. We measure frequency response, phase alignment, and crossover behavior for each individual driver. Powered models also get full DSP calibration before they leave the shop. This isn't a factory process applied to a thousand identical units — it's per-speaker work performed by hand, in our Arizona workshop, before your system gets anywhere near your living room.
Most people have never seen how a speaker is built from scratch. Our portfolio system gives you a front-row seat to the entire process without leaving your home.
Every speaker cabinet starts as a CAD model. The internal volume, port dimensions, and baffle geometry are calculated for the specific drivers selected for your system. Internal bracing is designed to eliminate panel resonance — the vibration that turns a cheap speaker cabinet into a noise source instead of a clean reproducer.
Once the design is locked, the CNC router cuts each panel to tolerances that hand tools can't match. Joints are precise. Internal bracing fits tight. Acoustic damping material is placed based on the cabinet geometry and driver behavior, not just stuffed in randomly.
Driver selection is based on your listening preferences, your room, and what the cabinet design can support. If you listen primarily to music, we select drivers optimized for clarity and imaging. If home theater is the priority, we weight toward dynamics and output. If you want both, we design for the best balance across both use cases. This is a conversation we have during the design phase — and because the workshop is local, changes don't add weeks of shipping delays.
Left: Width-matched center channel speakers on the workbench, ready for drivers and DSP. Right: A completed media room installation in Prescott.
Complete 5.1, 7.1, and Dolby Atmos theater installations designed for Prescott's housing types. Mountain cabins with timber ceilings need different speaker placement than a Prescott Valley new build with standard drywall. Stone walls, exposed beams, and open great rooms each affect sound differently — we design around the materials your home is actually built from.
Tower speakers, on-wall speakers, center channels, surrounds, and subwoofers — built in our Arizona workshop, delivered to your Prescott home. No shipping boxes, no logistics chain, no damage in transit. Your speakers go from the workbench to your living room in the back of the same truck driven by the person who built them. 10-year warranty included. See our warranty page for full details.
We bring multiple speaker configurations to your home for a live side-by-side comparison. We cover the full tri-city area — Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt — with no travel fees. Hear the difference in your actual room, with your furniture, your ceiling height, your walls. Site surveys are $250, credited toward your project.
At 5,400 feet, Prescott's air density is roughly 17% lower than sea level. That changes how sound propagates — particularly in the high frequencies where air absorption has the most impact. Our manual calibration process uses professional measurement tools and accounts for altitude, room geometry, and surface materials. We never use auto-calibration.
Prescott living means covered porches with Thumb Butte views, decks overlooking ponderosa pines, and outdoor spaces that get used eight months a year. We design whole-home audio for how Prescott residents actually live — music in the kitchen, background audio on the patio, a dedicated listening room for when you want to sit down and really hear something.
The biggest advantage of buying local: warranty service from dedicated to every project personally, not a call center in another state. 10-year speaker warranty covers drivers, enclosures, and finish. 2-year installation warranty includes unlimited service calls with no trip fees anywhere in the tri-city area. When something needs attention, we're here — not shipping you a replacement part with instructions. See our warranty page for full details.
Mike Knows Audio Video is a Prescott company. Not a Phoenix outfit driving up the mountain when work is slow. Not a franchise with a corporate office in another state. The workshop is here. The business is here. The person who answers the phone, designs your system, builds your speakers, installs them, and calibrates them — he lives here.
That matters because a home theater system isn't something you buy once and forget about. Furniture moves. You add a room. You want outdoor speakers for the new deck. You have a question about a setting three years from now. When that happens, you're calling the same person who built your system and knows your home's setup from memory. That's the ongoing relationship you get from working with a local builder — and it's something no online retailer or national chain can offer.
We're proud to build in Arizona, for Arizona homeowners, and to keep the work local. Every dollar spent with us stays in this community.
Your speakers aren't manufactured overseas and shipped through a distribution chain. They're designed for your room, built by hand in our Arizona workshop, and delivered directly to your door. Follow every step of the build through our online portfolio system.
At 5,400 feet, air behaves differently. Sound absorption changes. High-frequency response shifts. We calibrate every system for Prescott's actual conditions using professional measurement tools — not factory presets designed for sea-level listening rooms.
When you need warranty service, recalibration, or just have a question, you're calling someone dedicated to every project personally. No shipping speakers back to a factory. No waiting weeks for a tech to travel from Phoenix. Local means fast, personal, and accountable.
It depends on system complexity and your room. Entry-level 5.1 systems with quality components and professional installation start around $10,000–$15,000. Mid-range 7.1 systems with custom-built speakers typically run $15,000–$25,000. High-end Dolby Atmos installations with all-custom speakers can exceed $25,000. We'll give you a detailed quote after assessing your space — no surprises.
We serve the full tri-city area: Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Dewey-Humboldt, and surrounding communities. Because our workshop is in the Arizona high desert, most jobs are within a short drive. No travel fees anywhere in the tri-city area for installation or warranty service.
Every client gets access to our online portfolio system where you can follow your build in real time. We document every stage — CNC cutting, cabinet assembly, driver installation, finishing, and bench testing — with photos and updates shared directly with you. You already know what to expect from the in-home demo, and everything is backed by a 10-year speaker warranty and 4-year amplifier warranty.
Yes. At 5,400 feet, air density is roughly 17% lower than at sea level. Lower density means less air resistance on speaker drivers and different sound absorption characteristics, particularly in the higher frequencies. Most manufacturers design and test their speakers at lower elevations. Our DSP calibration process accounts for Prescott's altitude so your system reproduces sound accurately at this elevation.
It means the person who built your speakers is dedicated to every project personally. If something needs attention, we come to your home — typically within days, not weeks. You're not shipping a speaker back to a factory and waiting for a replacement. 10-year speaker warranty covers drivers, enclosures, and finish. 2-year installation warranty includes unlimited service visits with no trip fees in the tri-city area. Full warranty details here.
Custom speakers require 6–12 weeks or more for design, fabrication, and bench testing at our Arizona workshop. Installation and room calibration add 1–3 days depending on system complexity. We schedule installation flexibly and handle follow-up visits without the delays of coordinating travel from out of town.
It's not a problem, but it's something that has to be designed around. Log walls diffuse sound differently than drywall. Stone creates hard reflections. Timber ceilings with exposed beams scatter sound unevenly. These are the exact challenges our custom approach is built to handle. We measure your room, model the acoustic behavior, and design speaker placement and calibration around your home's actual construction — not around a hypothetical average room.
Schedule a free phone consultation to talk about your Prescott area home theater project.
