Upscale Audio Competitors

At Best Buy, our purpose is to enrich lives through technology. We do that by leveraging our unique combination of tech expertise and human touch to meet our customers’ everyday needs, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. With over 1,000 stores and more than 90,000 employees in the United States and Canada, we solve key human needs in the areas of productivity, security, health, entertainment, connectivity, and more. We’re a community of courageous change-makers, ambitious collaborators, and inspiring friends. Whether it’s working as a Geek Squad Agent, an in-store advisor, or in our corporate office, we offer each other support and prepare for what might come next. We wake up every morning so we can do our part in shaping the future of a changing world. Together, we raise the bar for what’s possible and dream up new solutions to problems we’ve never encountered. We master innovative skills that we didn’t know were within grasp and turn everyday interactions into human connections built to last. If change motivates you, if technology inspires you — we’re here for you. Tomorrow works here™.

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

Music Direct is the premier purveyor of audiophile goods and music in the US. We are a catalog based company based in Chicago and our mission is to bring great music, excellent gear and outstanding customer service to music lovers everywhere. Music Direct has over twenty years experience with some of the world's best analog and digital gear and we are tireless proponents of the merits of analog reproduction.