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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Who Rates Best (& Worst) in the Boston Area? Now You'll Know.

Audio Equipment--Selecting, Buying, and Repairing

	Options to play music have exploded in the Digital Age. We'll summarize the different choices available, give the pros and cons of each, point you toward sources of advice, and tell you how to get a good price. From Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK Magazine
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	Name	Number of ratings	Checkbook's top rating ()		What percent of customers rated firm "superior" on our survey for "overall quality"	Firm's price index score
	Name	Number of ratings	for quality	for price		Firm's price index score
1.	Audio Lab 36 JFK St Cambridge, MA 617-864-1144	11 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Best Buy All locations combined	590 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Best Buy 41 Commerce Way Seekonk, MA 508-336-1391		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Best Buy 769 Donald Lynch Blvd Marlborough, MA 508-486-9430		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Best Buy 200 Westgate Dr #2 Brockton, MA 508-587-5294		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Best Buy 1337 S Washington St Rte 1 North Attleboro, MA 508-699-5800	37 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 1 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-872-2223	90 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 27 Faunce Corner Rd North Dartmouth, MA 508-984-0002	17 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 290 S Broadway #E Salem, NH 603-890-9002	48 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 220 Daniel Webster Hwy Nashua, NH 603-891-4900	38 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 550 Arsenal St Watertown, MA 617-926-0009	50 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 1201 Broadway Saugus, MA 781-233-3435		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 700 Providence Hwy Rte 1 Dedham, MA 781-461-6768	36 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Best Buy 101 Independence Mall Way Kingston, MA 781-582-1486		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Best Buy 550 Grossman Dr Braintree, MA 781-848-1100	85 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Best Buy 230 Independence Way Danvers, MA 978-774-9494	70 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Bose 1 Premium Outlet Blvd #355 Wrentham, MA 508-384-0906	23 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Bose The Mountain Rd Framingham, MA 508-879-7330	18 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Cambridge SoundWorks 100 Cambridgeside Pl Cambridge, MA 617-225-3900	35 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Cambridge SoundWorks 68 Highland Ave Needham Heights, MA 781-449-6442	37 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Cambridge SoundWorks All locations combined 800-367-4434	334 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Cameras Inc 860 Massachusetts Ave Arlington, MA 781-648-8111	18 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Chromasonic TV 42 Chestnut St Needham, MA 781-444-1807		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Huntington TV 991 Boylston St Newton Highlands, MA 617-244-6800		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Natural Sound 401 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-879-3556	23 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	Q Audio 95 Vassar St Cambridge, MA 617-547-2727		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Sound Images 803 Main Rd Westport, MA 508-636-3400		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Spearit Sound 870 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 617-734-8800	22 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Tweeter All locations combined	506 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
30.	Tweeter Rte 1 Allen Ave North Attleboro, MA 508-643-9901	17 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
31.	Tweeter 86 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-879-1500	53 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
32.	Tweeter 293 Daniel Webster Hwy Nashua, NH 603-888-4400	25 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
33.	Tweeter 301 S Broadway Salem, NH 603-893-8100	20 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
34.	Tweeter 350 Boylston St Boston, MA 617-262-2299	16 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
35.	Tweeter 880 Commonwealth Ave Brookline, MA 617-738-4411	22 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
36.	Tweeter 14 Needham St Newton, MA 617-964-4411	50 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
37.	Tweeter 1 Wheeler Rd Burlington, MA 781-273-2200	72 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
38.	Tweeter 805 Providence Hwy Dedham, MA 781-329-7300	28 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
39.	Tweeter 1810 Washington St Hanover, MA 781-826-4411	25 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
40.	Tweeter 242 Andover St Rte 114 Peabody, MA 978-531-7500	47 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
41.	You-Do-It Electronics Center 40 Franklin St Needham Heights, MA 781-449-1005	14 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 32 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

Boston audio equipment stores by neighborhood

MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Arlington, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Boston, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Braintree, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Brockton, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Brookline, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Burlington, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Cambridge, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Danvers, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Dedham, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Framingham, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Hanover, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Kingston, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Marlborough, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Needham, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Needham Heights, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Newton, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Newton Highlands, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in North Attleboro, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in North Dartmouth, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Peabody, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Saugus, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Seekonk, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Watertown, MA	Audio Equipment Stores in Westport, MA
Audio Equipment Stores in Wrentham, MA
NH
Audio Equipment Stores in Nashua, NH	Audio Equipment Stores in Salem, NH

Subscriber Comments/Reviews

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

Subscriber from WEST ROXBURY, MA wrote about BEST BUY, Dedham, MA on 09/16/09: OK.......

Subscriber from DANVERS, MA wrote about TWEETER, Peabody, MA on 08/25/08: Car Audio installer seemed to be having a bad hair day. Showed no concern for..........

Subscriber from AYER, MA wrote about BEST BUY, Nashua, NH on 06/25/08: You are mostly "on your own" in this mess of a store. Selection is great..........

Subscriber from PLYMPTON, MA wrote about TWEETER, Hanover, MA on 09/26/07: promised delivery date is now a week late and counting.......

Subscriber from WINCHESTER, MA wrote about YOU-DO-IT ELECTRONICS CENTER, Needham Heights, MA on 10/12/06: Good for parts and gizmos not avail at nationwide chain stores.......

Subscriber from NEWTON CENTER, MA wrote about TWEETER, Newton, MA on 10/12/06: I have always found the sales staff to be knowledgeable and helpful. I suspect that..........

Subscriber from WESTON, MA wrote about YOU-DO-IT ELECTRONICS CENTER, Needham Heights, MA on 09/27/06: Bought a DVD player last week. Don't yet know how reliable and long-lasting it will..........

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