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	Name	Number of ratings	Checkbook's top rating ()		Firm's price index score	What percent of customers rated firm "superior" on our survey for "overall quality"
	Name	Number of ratings	for quality	for price	Firm's price index score
1.	Audio Lab 36 JFK St Cambridge, MA 617-864-1144	13 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Best Buy All locations combined	655 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 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 20 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 20 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 20 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	43 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 1 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-872-2223	98 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 2 Galleria Mall Dr #118 Taunton, MA 508-977-1200		Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 27 Faunce Corner Rd North Dartmouth, MA 508-984-0002	20 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 290 S Broadway #E Salem, NH 603-890-9002	51 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 220 Daniel Webster Hwy Nashua, NH 603-891-4900	41 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 550 Arsenal St #2 Watertown, MA 617-926-0009	62 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 1201 Broadway Saugus, MA 781-233-3435	14 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Best Buy 700 Providence Hwy Rte 1 Dedham, MA 781-461-6768	44 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Best Buy 101 Independence Mall Way Kingston, MA 781-582-1486	10 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Best Buy 550 Grossman Dr Braintree, MA 781-848-1100	94 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Best Buy 230 Independence Way Danvers, MA 978-774-9494	76 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Bose 1 Premium Outlet Blvd #355 Wrentham, MA 508-384-0906	27 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Bose 100 The Mountain Rd Framingham, MA 508-879-7330	23 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Cambridge SoundWorks All locations combined 800-367-4434	338 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Cameras Inc 860 Massachusetts Ave Arlington, MA 781-648-8111	21 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Natural Sound 401 Worcester Rd Framingham, MA 508-879-3556	29 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Q Audio 95 Vassar St Cambridge, MA 617-547-2727	12 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	You-Do-It Electronics Center 40 Franklin St Needham Heights, MA 781-449-1005	17 ratings	Boston Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 20 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

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Audio Equipment Stores in Nashua, NH	Audio Equipment Stores in Salem, NH

Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Audio Equipment Stores in the Boston Area

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).

As You Can See Below, Some Audio Equipment Stores Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Audio Equipment Stores.

Subscriber from BRIGHTON, MA wrote about a local stereo store: I did my research before I bought, then I drove up to the Nashua store...........
Subscriber from FRAMINGHAM, MA wrote about a local stereo store: I bought a 52" HDTV which was delivered to my home. The unopened carton was..........

Subscriber from BOSTON, MA wrote about a local stereo store: Knowledgeable; capable. Their advice on a complicated, multi-room, multi-receiver system was invaluable. Pricing wasnt cheap,..........

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