Glenn Poor’s Audio-Video

Specialties

Maintaining our focus on innovation, quality and service, we seek out and sell the most advanced and highest quality HD and UHD video displays, analog & digital stereo/​surround audio systems, whole-​house music systems, internet streaming and networked audio components, installations, and consulting at all price levels.

History

Established in 1949.

Glenn Poor’s TV and Radio was founded in 1949 by Glenn Poor Sr. and his son, Glenn Jr., to sell and service the new phenomenon, television, with an unusual emphasis on expertise, service and quality.

In the seventies, Glenn Poor’s created home theaters, by combining video tape decks, large screen projection television and audio components, and designing stores to showcase this new concept in home entertainment.

Among the now-​famous audio companies Glenn Poor’s has brought to its region are Balanced Audio Technology, Smyth Research, Dynaudio, Wilson Audio, Magnepan, Jeff Rowland Design, Mark Levinson, Apogee, Phase Technology, and Dunlavy.

Meet the Business Owner

Geoff P.

Business Owner

Geoff started his career in audio as a teen at his Dad’s Electronics/​Hi-​Fi store in Champaign-​Urbana. He began singing professionally at the age of fifteen where his first job was opening for Jerry Lee Lewis. He later purchased the Glenn Poor’s Audio Video stores he had created for his father’s corporation, and turned the company into one of the most prestigious high-​end audio and home theater retail organizations in the Midwest.

Geoff has consulted and worked with some of the most respected names in audio — Niro Nakamichi, Yamaha, MRC, Sony, & more — and in 1992, he was one of the founders of Dunlavy Audio Labs. In the spring of 1995, he left Dunlavy to become a partner at Balanced Audio Technology — a company he helped launch at the 1995 CES.

Whether creating music, or the equipment to play it, Geoff Poor is passionate about the art form. His eclectic taste and background, and general all-​round knowledge of the musical arts, makes Geoff a special asset in the business of music.