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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 Buys 13525 Wellington Center Cir #123 Gainesville, VA 703-335-1125	18 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
2.	Audio Clinic 12808 Falmouth Dr Silver Spring, MD 301-622-1705		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
3.	Audio Explosion 8968 Brookville Rd Silver Spring, MD 301-495-0964		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
4.	Audio Video Solutions 10840 Guilford Rd #402 Annapolis Junction, MD 301-604-8111	23 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
5.	Belmont TV 9101 Marshall Ave Laurel, MD 301-498-5600	16 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
6.	Belmont TV 12500 Layhill Rd Wheaton, MD 301-942-1300	63 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
7.	Belmont TV 4723 King St Arlington, VA 703-671-8500	104 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
8.	Best Buy All locations combined	1273 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
9.	Best Buy 4500 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 202-895-1580	50 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
10.	Best Buy 20914 Frederick Rd Germantown, MD 240-686-1221	46 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
11.	Best Buy 15800 Collington Rd Bowie, MD 301-464-3080	22 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
12.	Best Buy 14160 Baltimore Ave Laurel, MD 301-497-1890	68 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
13.	Best Buy 11725 Berry Rd Waldorf, MD 301-632-5740	17 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
14.	Best Buy 10901 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD 301-942-1877		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
15.	Best Buy 1200 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 301-984-1479	169 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
16.	Best Buy 15750 Shady Grove Rd Gaithersburg, MD 301-990-8682		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
17.	Best Buy 15750 Shady Grove Rd Gaithersburg, MD 301-990-8839	102 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
18.	Best Buy 2643 Housley Rd Annapolis, MD 410-571-9011	18 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
19.	Best Buy 13093 Gateway Center Dr Gainesville, VA 571-248-4944		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
20.	Best Buy 7665 Sudley Rd Manassas, VA 703-257-7474	32 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
21.	Best Buy 1201 S Hayes St #B Arlington, VA 703-414-7090	71 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
22.	Best Buy 45575 Dulles Eastern Plz #188 Sterling, VA 703-430-2150	37 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
23.	Best Buy 2730 Prince William Pkwy Woodbridge, VA 703-490-7499	60 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
24.	Best Buy 3401 Jefferson Davis Hwy Alexandria, VA 703-519-0940	27 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
25.	Best Buy 13058 Fair Lakes Pkwy Fairfax, VA 703-631-3332	124 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
26.	Best Buy 609 Potomac Station Dr NE Leesburg, VA 703-669-4100		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
27.	Best Buy 8449 Leesburg Pike Vienna, VA 703-748-9814	19 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
28.	Best Buy 1801 Fountain Dr Reston, VA 703-787-3760	89 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
29.	Best Buy 6555 Frontier Dr Springfield, VA 703-922-4980	130 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
30.	Big Screen Store 11134 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 301-881-1199		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
31.	Bose 10300 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD 410-884-8525	16 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
32.	Bose 2001 International Dr McLean, VA 571-633-0401	19 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
33.	Bose 241 Fort Evans Rd NE #1131 Leesburg, VA 703-771-3834	15 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
34.	Deja Vu Audio 1401 Chain Bridge Rd McLean, VA 703-734-9391	23 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
35.	Gifted Listener Audio 5720 Pickwick Rd Centreville, VA 703-818-8000	35 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
36.	Graffiti Audio-Video All locations combined	309 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
37.	Graffiti Audio-Video 4914 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 202-244-9643	73 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
38.	Hurley's Auto Audio 1524 Spring Hill Rd #Dd McLean, VA 703-790-8744		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
39.	J S Audio Video 4919 St Elmo Ave Bethesda, MD 301-656-7020	28 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
40.	Radio Shack All locations combined	11 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
41.	Sound Images by High Tech 6541 Arlington Blvd Falls Church, VA 703-534-1733	40 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
42.	Sound Solutions 14508 Lee Rd #B Chantilly, VA 703-631-4104		Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.
43.	Soundworks Audio & Video 10518 Connecticut Ave Kensington, MD 301-929-8600	74 ratings	Washington Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 34 local audio equipment stores. Subscribe now for ratings, articles and more.

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Audio Equipment Stores in Chantilly, VA	Audio Equipment Stores in Fairfax, VA	Audio Equipment Stores in Falls Church, VA
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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Audio Equipment Stores in the Washington DC 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 FAIRFAX, VA wrote about a local stereo store: You can mostly likely find better prices on the internet. However, the knowledge of the..........

Subscriber from ROCKVILLE, MD wrote about a local stereo store: These guys really know their business. Theyre great about providing advice when you need it..........

Subscriber from WASHINGTON, DC wrote about a local stereo store: wonderful advice on buying "basic unit" with potential add-ons later. Delivery and installation were prompt..........

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