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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 Delaware Valley 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.	Audiolab Stereo & Video Ctr 492 Lincoln Hwy #A Fairless Hills, PA 215-295-8795		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Best Buy All locations combined	816 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Best Buy 9940 Roosevelt Blvd Philadelphia, PA 215-676-7206	80 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Best Buy 1130 Easton Rd Willow Grove, PA 215-784-7020	91 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Best Buy 24 Airport Sq North Wales, PA 215-855-3528	26 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Best Buy 310 Commerce Blvd Fairless Hills, PA 215-949-3006	56 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 4807 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE 302-477-0305	45 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 2201 Farrand Dr Wilmington, DE 302-993-0495	112 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 310 Goddard Blvd King of Prussia, PA 610-265-7718	16 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 2010 Chemical Rd Plymouth Meeting, PA 610-567-2835	36 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 642 Baltimore Pike Springfield, PA 610-604-7474	93 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 1851 Deptford Center Rd Woodbury, NJ 856-374-0404	72 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 1420 Nixon Dr Mount Laurel, NJ 856-608-1600	94 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Bob & Ron's Worldwide Stereo 58 Greenfield Ave Ardmore, PA 610-649-7002	14 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Boscov's 10 Plymouth Meeting Mall Plymouth Meeting, PA 610-825-8686		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Boscov's 400 W Rte 38 #800 Moorestown, NJ 856-231-1101		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Boscov's 6001 Voorhees Town Ctr Voorhees, NJ 856-772-6400		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Bose 125 Christiana Mall Newark, DE 302-453-9929	11 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Bose 160 N Gulph Rd King of Prussia, PA 610-962-0888	13 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Bose Factory Store 5861 York Rd Bldg 1-A Lahaska, PA 215-794-2052	13 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Camera Stop TV Audio & Video 216 Tuckerton Rd Medford, NJ 856-983-5676	20 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Community Audio 8020 Germantown Ave Philadelphia, PA 215-242-4080	16 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Ed's TV 1691 Bethlehem Pike Hatfield, PA 215-997-4300	24 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Hi-Fi House 509 Old York Rd Jenkintown, PA 215-885-5300		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Hi-Fi House 2304 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE 302-478-3575	28 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	Hi-Fi House 1001 Sussex Blvd Broomall, PA 610-544-4420	24 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Hi-Fi Sales 1732 Rte 70 E Cherry Hill, NJ 856-486-7600	16 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Overture 2423 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE 302-478-6050	15 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Record Shop 2411 Rte 38 Cherry Hill, NJ 856-667-5558	20 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
30.	Sears 1067 W Baltimore Pike Media, PA 610-565-3416		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
31.	Surround Sounds 215 E Lincoln Hwy Exton, PA 610-524-6900		Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
32.	Tweeter All locations combined	332 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
33.	Tweeter 166 Montgomery Mall North Wales, PA 215-368-4510	17 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
34.	Tweeter 1429 Walnut St Philadelphia, PA 215-636-9290	13 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
35.	Tweeter 502 N Oxford Valley Rd Langhorne, PA 215-750-6506	24 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
36.	Tweeter 5601 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE 302-479-0233	40 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
37.	Tweeter 3926 Kirkwood Hwy Wilmington, DE 302-999-8448	36 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
38.	Tweeter 268 W Dekalb Pike Rte 202 King of Prussia, PA 610-337-4591	26 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
39.	Tweeter 1563 Almonesson Rd Woodbury, NJ 856-374-8987	28 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
40.	Tweeter 515 Rte 73 S Marlton, NJ 856-482-0770	23 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
41.	World Wide Stereo 754 Bethlehem Pike Rte 309 Montgomeryville, PA 215-368-8343	73 ratings	Delaware Valley Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

Philadelphia audio equipment stores by neighborhood

DE
Audio Equipment Stores in Newark, DE	Audio Equipment Stores in Wilmington, DE
NJ
Audio Equipment Stores in Cherry Hill, NJ	Audio Equipment Stores in Marlton, NJ	Audio Equipment Stores in Medford, NJ
Audio Equipment Stores in Moorestown, NJ	Audio Equipment Stores in Mount Laurel, NJ	Audio Equipment Stores in Voorhees, NJ
Audio Equipment Stores in Woodbury, NJ
PA
Audio Equipment Stores in Ardmore, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Broomall, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Exton, PA
Audio Equipment Stores in Fairless Hills, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Hatfield, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Jenkintown, PA
Audio Equipment Stores in King of Prussia, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Lahaska, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Langhorne, PA
Audio Equipment Stores in Media, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Montgomeryville, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in North Wales, PA
Audio Equipment Stores in Philadelphia, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Plymouth Meeting, PA	Audio Equipment Stores in Springfield, PA
Audio Equipment Stores in Willow Grove, PA

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 MARLTON, NJ wrote about CAMERA STOP TV AUDIO & VIDEO, Medford, NJ on 09/01/09: the best and cheap too........

Subscriber from DOWNINGTOWN, PA wrote about OVERTURE, Wilmington, DE on 08/25/09: The entire company is first rate........

Subscriber from PHILADELPHIA, PA wrote about HI-FI HOUSE, Wilmington, DE on 10/12/06: A friendly and price-competitive buying experience at Hi-Fi House. Salesperson knowledge was superior and didn't..........

Subscriber from PHILADELPHIA, PA wrote about OVERTURE, Wilmington, DE on 10/12/06: A good shopping experience, with somewhat limited choices for the smaller-to-medium budget. Friendly and helpful..........

Subscriber from COLLEGEVILLE, PA wrote about BEST BUY, Plymouth Meeting, PA on 10/08/06: Unreliable delivery dates for merchandise on backorder!.......

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