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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Who Rates Best (& Worst) in the Twin Cities 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 Twin Cities 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 Perfection 7401 Lyndale Ave S Minneapolis, MN 612-866-0083		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Best Buy All locations combined	911 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Best Buy 1000 W 78th St Richfield, MN 612-861-3917	122 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Best Buy 1350 50th St E Inver Grove Heights, MN 651-457-5817	59 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Best Buy 1647 County Rd B2 W Roseville, MN 651-636-6456	116 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Best Buy 1885 County Rd D E Maplewood, MN 651-704-1901	64 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Best Buy 8301 3rd St N Oakdale, MN 651-739-1899	77 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy 12905 Elm Creek Blvd N Maple Grove, MN 763-416-6300	58 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 12633 Riverdale Blvd NW Coon Rapids, MN 763-422-0032	11 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 5925 Earle Brown Dr Brooklyn Center, MN 763-566-1830	34 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 300 Northtown Dr NE Blaine, MN 763-780-8668	62 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 8100 Old Carriage Ct Shakopee, MN 952-233-0387		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 15300 Cedar Ave S Apple Valley, MN 952-431-2466	73 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Best Buy 13513 Ridgedale Dr Minnetonka, MN 952-544-0377	95 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Best Buy 12600 W Frontage Rd Hwy 35-W Burnsville, MN 952-894-8130	47 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Best Buy 3200 Southdale Cir Edina, MN 952-925-4425	34 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Best Buy 11600 Leona Rd Eden Prairie, MN 952-941-5149		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Bose 6415 Labeaux Ave NE #A210 Albertville, MN 763-497-6990		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Bose 60 E Broadway #S-140 Bloomington, MN 952-854-6978	17 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 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 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Hi-Fi Sound Electronics 1226 Harmon Pl Minneapolis, MN 612-339-6351	22 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Needle Doctor 419 14th Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 612-378-0543		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Robert Paul TV 1789 Lexington Ave N St Paul, MN 651-489-8025		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Stereoland 2325 Hennepin Ave S Minneapolis, MN 612-377-1772	26 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Stereoland 8743 Columbine Rd Eden Prairie, MN 952-829-9700		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	Ultimate Electronics All locations combined	502 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Ultimate Electronics 1723 County Rd B2 W Roseville, MN 651-636-3686	107 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Ultimate Electronics 8401 Tamarack Rd Woodbury, MN 651-730-4378	80 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Ultimate Electronics 12201 Elm Creek Blvd Maple Grove, MN 763-420-5983		Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
30.	Ultimate Electronics 14232 Burnhaven Dr Burnsville, MN 952-435-8933	80 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
31.	Ultimate Electronics 12350 Wayzata Blvd Minnetonka, MN 952-546-4040	74 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
32.	Ultimate Electronics 7435 France Ave S Edina, MN 952-830-0010	105 ratings	Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 23 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

Twin Cities audio equipment stores by neighborhood

MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Albertville, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Apple Valley, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Blaine, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Bloomington, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Brooklyn Center, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Burnsville, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Coon Rapids, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Eden Prairie, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Edina, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Inver Grove Heights, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Maple Grove, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Maplewood, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Minneapolis, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Minnetonka, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Oakdale, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in Richfield, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Roseville, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Shakopee, MN
Audio Equipment Stores in St Paul, MN	Audio Equipment Stores in Woodbury, MN

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 VADNAIS HTS, MN wrote about HI-FI SOUND ELECTRONICS, Minneapolis, MN on 09/26/07: High end electronics only........

Subscriber from HOPKINS, MN wrote about BEST BUY, Minneapolis, MN on 09/26/07: Not the least expensive - probably the most expensive. Sales persons not the best trained........

Subscriber from WOODBURY, MN wrote about BEST BUY, Woodbury, MN on 09/26/07: As with all Best Buy stores ... selection is of high quality but the service..........

Subscriber from EDINA, MN wrote about STEREOLAND, Minneapolis, MN on 09/19/07: I worked personally with the owner, Bill Soderholm, who was always courteous and knowledgeable. I..........

Subscriber from ROSEVILLE, MN wrote about ULTIMATE ELECTRONICS, Roseville, MN on 10/20/06: Our salesperson was very helpful and friendly. All staff were quick to offer us a..........

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