Craftsmanship

The Pursuit of Wrensilva Signature Sound

Warm, true and faithful are the essential qualities of our sound delivery. But the best way to understand Wrensilva sound (without actually hearing it) is by delving into one of the most critical development steps — collaboration with revered music creators. These listening sessions with music creators helped shape the Wrensilva Sound for our next generation record consoles.

Wrensilva Co-founder and head of audio Scott Salyer talks about Wrensilva Sound at our San Diego workshop.

Wrensilva co-founder and head of audio Scott Salyer walks us through his journey of creating the Wrensilva sound experience. For him, it’s really about celebrating the artwork in its purest form. We sat down with Scott at our San Diego workshop to get the story of his pursuit of Wrensilva Signature Sound.

Wrensilva sound starts with proprietary electronic and acoustic design and elite audio components, but it’s the essential step of collaborating with music creators that really makes our sound signature. They help us ensure our consoles deliver music the way it’s meant to be heard. That’s how we get the proper feeling — and that warm, true, and faithful sound.The pursuit of Wrensilva’s sound never truly ends. We’re always listening for new sounds, tinkering with new technologies, and collaborating with creators from all backgrounds. As a result, every Wrensilva console delivers a sound quality that can be passed down for generations. It’s really about slowing down, creating memories, and cherishing music in its purest form.

“The bass sounds right, piano sounds right, trumpet and drums sound right — the tonal balance is right.”

Joe Harley

Given Scott’s background as a guitarist, sound engineer, and producer, it makes sense that he would draw on those experiences when creating his own HiFi sound system. Now, instead of primarily creating music, Scott focuses on creating a sound system that delivers music the way it’s meant to be heard. It’s an art form in itself. From building components from the ground up to making tiny electronic tweaks to get the right tone, the process has clear parallels with mixing recorded music on a soundboard.“The Wrensilva Sound — warm, true, faithful,” Scott began, sitting at his workshop station in San Diego. “Warm: room-filling, deep bass that you feel surrounding you. True: true to the instruments. The piano: does it sound like a real piano from the bottom to the top of the highest key? The acoustic guitar: do you hear the squeak of the string from the musician’s finger? All those things that make an instrument’s character. We need to reproduce that. We need to make it come through the speakers. And faithful, really, to the men and women who mix and record these records. Not just the musicians, but the people who are behind the speakers on the other side of the glass. We need to reproduce the sound that they hear in those speakers. That’s the Wrensilva Sound.”