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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 Perfection 7401 Lyndale Ave S Minneapolis, MN 612-866-0083	11 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Best Buy All locations combined	1020 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Best Buy 1000 W 78th St Richfield, MN 612-861-3917	134 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Best Buy 1235 Town Centre Dr St Paul, MN 651-365-0540		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Best Buy 1350 50th St E Inver Grove Heights, MN 651-457-5817	63 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Best Buy 1795 County Rd D E Maplewood, MN 651-704-1901	81 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 8301 3rd St N Oakdale, MN 651-739-1899	92 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 1643 County Rd B2 W Roseville, MN 651-746-0538	134 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 12905 Elm Creek Blvd N Maple Grove, MN 763-416-6300	61 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 12633 Riverdale Blvd NW Coon Rapids, MN 763-422-0032	16 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 5925 Earle Brown Dr Brooklyn Center, MN 763-566-1830	35 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 300 Northtown Dr NE Blaine, MN 763-780-8668	69 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 8100 Old Carriage Ct Shakopee, MN 952-233-0387		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Best Buy 15300 Cedar Ave Apple Valley, MN 952-431-2466	81 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Best Buy 13513 Ridgedale Dr Minnetonka, MN 952-544-0377	115 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Best Buy 12600 W Frontage Rd Hwy 35-W Burnsville, MN 952-894-8130	49 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Best Buy 3200 Southdale Cir Edina, MN 952-925-4425	39 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Best Buy 11600 Leona Rd Eden Prairie, MN 952-941-5149		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Bose 140 South Blvd Bloomington, MN 952-854-6978	22 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Halsten Entertainment 7650 Wayzata Blvd Minneapolis, MN 763-545-9900		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Hi-Fi Sound Electronics 825 Glenwood Ave Minneapolis, MN 612-339-6351	27 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Stereo Land 8743 Columbine Rd Eden Prairie, MN 952-829-9700		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Ultimate Electronics All locations combined	555 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Ultimate Electronics 1723 County Rd B2 W Roseville, MN 651-636-3686	119 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Ultimate Electronics 8401 Tamarack Rd Woodbury, MN 651-730-4378	88 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	Ultimate Electronics 12201 Elm Creek Blvd Maple Grove, MN 763-420-5983	12 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Ultimate Electronics 14232 Burnhaven Dr Burnsville, MN 952-435-8933	85 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Ultimate Electronics 12350 Wayzata Blvd Minnetonka, MN 952-546-4040	85 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Ultimate Electronics 7435 France Ave S Edina, MN 952-830-0010	121 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 24 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Audio Equipment Stores in the Twin Cities 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 LAKE ELMO, MN wrote about a local stereo store: A reliable and effective outfit that also installs home theaters into existing housing (maybe new..........

Subscriber from MINNEAPOLIS, MN wrote about a local stereo store: Excellent advice and installation works beautifully.......

Subscriber from SAINT PAUL, MN wrote about a local stereo store: Great store for the snobbish audiophile who would pay $20,000+ for audio equipment. definitely not..........

Subscriber from SAVAGE, MN wrote about a local stereo store: Outstanding customer service!.......

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