The Audiophile Group Competitors

Crutchfield is an award-winning North American electronics retailer, specializing in categories like mobile audio, speakers, TVs, headphones and more. We are honored to have earned Bizrate.com's Circle of Excellence Platinum Award for nearly 20 years – the only one of more than 5,000 online retailers to do so. Since 1974, Crutchfield has grown tremendously. We’re known for our info-packed catalog, and we’ve also expanded to serve consumer and B2B needs in the U.S. and Canada, via our robust web presence and innovative online tools. We’ve retained our hometown roots in Charlottesville while expanding our call centers, distribution facilities and stores to additional Virginia locations. Crutchfield is privately owned and has never experienced a layoff. Founder and CEO Bill Crutchfield still leads the company and is a respected figure in the CE industry – in fact, he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame in 2007. Our customers stick with us because of our long-standing dedication to excellent information, expert advice, highly-rated products, and customer-friendly policies – a commitment established by Bill early on. Car audio shoppers rely on our vehicle database, which covers more than 20,000 cars and trucks and comes from our in-house research team’s measurements of real vehicles. Every Advisor receives ten weeks of all-day, hands-on technology training and demos before helping a customer. And our skilled Tech team offers free support for any piece of gear Crutchfield has ever sold. All these helpful people make for a fun company culture (and many stay for decades)! Our long-term stability and wide array of benefits draw folks who appreciate a customer-focused employer. In fact, employees have rated Crutchfield so highly that we’ve been honored as a "Best Places to Work in Virginia" award recipient by Virginia Business Magazine. Employee discounts on electronics and a dog-friendly HQ don’t hurt! See current open jobs at www.crutchfield.com

Why Our Prices are the Best Customers often ask us how we can maintain our business when we sell at such low prices, especially considering the high quality of the merchandise we deliver. Monoprice's formula is simple, we eliminate the high costs of fancy packaging and middlemen while leveraging economies of scale by purchasing in large volumes. You, as a customer, are only paying only for the materials and workmanship of the cables and accessories. We go further to ensure customer satisfaction by pricing our products as closely as possible to the wholesale cost. Another simple way to look at it is this; with regards to cables for example, though the cost of commodities such as copper, silicon, plastics and labor maybe high, in a high volume production would the cost of each component that goes into the manufacture of a cable really add up to the price you paid at the retail store? In other words, does the sum of its parts add up to what you paid for that 6 foot cable? Chances are, if you bought it from somewhere else, it does not. The fair price is what you'll find on our site. If you haven't yet purchased online, this is the best way to start!!

KEF is a leading British innovator of high-end audio products. Founded by BBC engineer Raymond Cooke in 1961, KEF is named after its original site, Kent Engineering and Foundry, and continues to manufacture and develop its signature pieces in Maidstone, Kent, UK. Committed to bringing a superior listening experience to audiophiles, the brand’s revolutionary collection of speakers and subwoofers has evolved to include wireless speaker systems, portable speakers, and headphones - allowing KEF to bring high-fidelity sound to more people in their homes and on the move.