Stay away from this place unless you like having people quote you prices off the top of your head to see if you will pay the price. I have been here twice over the last 5 years. One time I did business with them and this last time I walked out. The first time around I remember thinking the price was a little high and there was no written estimate until after the install. I wanted the stereo installed so I had it done but I remember walking away feeling like I paid too much. This last time, I purchased a stereo through Best Buy for my mother-in-law and would usually have Best Buy install it but they were not available. So I called this guy on a whim thinking maybe he had cleaned up his act. I read a few other reviews and some were neutral and some were awful but I figured I would give it a shot. And true to form...they were still the same place as last time. When you first walk in, the start a receipt but they don't list anything down for what they will do. They say that they have to look at it first to see what is there. Then they want you to sign this blank receipt. Then they take your stereo out and then they come back with a price. They say they have to look and see what is there first. And then...this is the best part...they come back with a price. So he says to me, "$200.00". And I said to him that it was way to high because I know the installation at Best Buy is only something like $125.00. So I said to him why it was so much and he said, "Well you have to get the harnessing kit and the wiring kit." Well I can tell you that the harnessing kit and the wiring kit should only be about $30.00 so I asked him how much it was and he tried to tell me it's pretty pricey. So I told him no thanks and then he says, "Well you have an amplifier too." Which I replied, "OK...and how does it make the installation another $170?" So I told him to button it up and that I didn't want to do it and he then said, "I will do it for $150.00." So now we are playing let's make a deal. I really don't want a car sales man selling me my stereo installation. So I told him no and told him Best Buy could do it for $125.00 and I would just wait. So then he offered to do it for $130.00 but by this point I had had it with him and no longer felt like I could trust them. So I walked away. Bottom line...I will never go back to this guy again. Be careful people and don't get scammed by this guy. Also read other reviews here also. He likes to sneak in additional prices from what I am seeing. There are other reviews about him on Google also. Hope this helped and good luck! read more

Worst Service Ever. Brought my boat in for Don the owner to take a look at and give me a accurate estimate on the boat since it wasn't as standard as a car install. He look at it for less then five minutes and gave my a quote. Its was in the same ball park as Other local shops(phanton of Electronics) But he offered a warranty for 2 years which was a year longer then others. We agree on where speaker location was to be and getting him to tell my what product manufacture he was supplying was like pulling teeth. I had a weird feeling but went with him only because he promise it would sound great and i need it to last only two seasons in the ocean. Ending up coming back to my boat with the tower speakers in back and box speakers in front. totally opposite of what we agree upon. He mounted tower speaker through my anodized rocket launchers(fishing pole holders...Expensive ) which took two of my pole holders completely out of the game. He never call to see if this was reasonable, or if i agreed. Then mounted the cheapest box speakers out there to the front of my electronic storage which when boat is in motion the will be banging against since not made for this application. I told him to remove all equipment but he refused and would not refund my money. He ended up shutting the gate and scaring the death out of my 8 year daughter. Cops ended up getting evolved and made it a civil matter. I ended up with two options;1 was to removed all the equipment and lose my deposit until small claims with no stereo what so ever. 2- pay it in full and the deal with it there. I went with option 2 and will be dealing with this in court. I WOULD STRONGLY DISCOURAGE ANYBODY FOR DOING ANY BUSINESS WITH DISCOUNT STEREO IN SIMI VALLEY. YOU WILL END UP A VICTIM AS MYSELF WITH MORE HEADACHES THEN ITS WORTH. P.S. HE PUTS WARRANTY'S THAT OTHERS WONT MATCH BECAUSE HES A CON ARTIST. HIS SHOP HAS NO BUSINESS AND WILL MAKE PROMISES HIS COMPANY COULDN'T PREFORM! read more

Awful business tactics, charging for service fees and then messing up your sub even worse than it was when you brought it in. If I could rate 0 stars I would. Trust the yelpers on this one, you do NOT want to go here. Trek it to Los Angeles if you're considering coming here. Doesn't matter if this is the closest one to you, your gas tank might be grumpy but your speakers will be indebted to you for life -Which will be very long (if you avoid this place). read more

I will NEVER go there again nor will ever recommend this place to anyone! I went in with a amp problem. I was told by the owner that it was my stock head unit. He sold me a Kenwood unit that was not compatible with my vehicle. They charged me an insane amount of about 682 for the unit and an interface and install. As I drove home, I experienced the very same amp problem I had.. just shutting down. I did some research and called Kenwood and Crutchfield. Turns out the head unit sold for 149 everywhere and then charged me another 150 for an no name interface that I found online for 32 bucks.. then at the very end they charged me another 32 bucks for an antenna adapter.. 7 bucks everywhere. I went back furious. They told me to find what ever i want and they would purchase and install it for me. I got scared. I purchased a Alpine head unit and a JL Audio amp, a name brand Axxcess interface along with a second interface that was needed to make the steering wheel controls work properly and a install kit. I made an appt to re-install everything properly. I was originally charged to re-wire everything. It was not done. I had no turn signal sounds, warning chimes and no onstar. When I went back reluctantly, as I had already been charged 400 for install,, he wanted another 250 for install and claimed he couldn't sell the the original head he sold me as it was now used. (1 week old) In the end, He charged me another 250!!! I was such an idiot!! He took almost a grand from me to install my head unit and amp and did a partial re-wiring. I finally got what I needed but paid more than double the going rate and lost hours of my time...!! Complete RIP OFF!! read more

So I came in the store with a amp I already bought from audio concept and I wanted them to install and also put in tweeters.. he charged me $325 for all the wires for the amp I ALREADY BOUGHT and then he charged me $175 for tweeters and I was so excited to get this done and then he told me that my front door speakers were blown and for the tweeters I had to get news ones SO HE TRIED TO MAKE ME BUY NEW ONES luckily I bought my speakers from someone else and they had life time warranty but they couldn't put them in for a while so the guy told me he'd charged me $50 for him to install them BUT the best part was I just bought those speakers in September so I was like no way they are blown.. so I drove myself to Thousands oaks to go get the new speakers that were under warranty and I got back and paid him the $50 and an hour later my car was done.. he said it sounds so much better.. WELL LET ME TELL YOU .. I have 2 12 inch power bass subs and they are great and my sound system wasn't bad but my vocals could be better SO I GET IN MY CAR ALL EXCITED AND THE TWEETERS WERE TERRIBLE AND I MEAN TERRIBLE and so I was like I could maybe adjust everything so I looked up the tweeters online and guess what online they are $17.99 and then I looked up the amp wires I could've gotten them all for $70.. So stereo discount (rip-off) or whatever.. I'll see you Monday :) read more

BEWARE OF THIS CONARTIST. I SHOULD HAVE READ THE REVIEWS FIRST!! We brought my car in to get new speakers. The owner quoted us OFF THE TOP OF HIS HEAD for the installation of four speakers 2 in the front 2 in the back, $600. We thought it was high for four speakers but he insisted they were high quality. So we went with it. After only two hours we picked the vehicle up and nothing worked. He apologized and said something was wrong with my stereo and that I needed a new one. However, it was working fine at the time I brought it in. It was close of business day on Saturday and we were leaving early in the morning for remainder of the weekend so we decided we would come back a few days later. During our trip the rattling from the speakers was so horrendous we had to pull over. It was at that point we discovered he not only installed speakers that were smaller than the ones I had in there originally, but had only screwed down one side of the speakers so they were freely bouncing up and down inside of the bracket hitting metal on metal. Not to mention the hanging tape and electrical wiring it looked like a four year old did the installation. Upon the return from our trip, we decided to take the vehicle to another shop where we were informed that not only did my stereo still work but that the speakers he installed were low quality speakers all four totaling approximately $175. At this point we were not going to go back we decided to have the new shop fix it right, so we purchased a whole new stereo system and proper speakers. To make a long story short we went back to Discount Stereo to confront him. The owner openly admitted the correct cost of the speakers only after we advised him we were shown the cost of the exact same speakers in the box. He offered us nothing, he argued with us, made no apology and ultimately said he'd give us $100 only if we gave him the speakers he installed originally back to him. Why, so he could he could to the same thing to someone else. I have never dealt with a business owner who completely took advantage of his customers like this and am honestly amazed he is still in business. I will tell everyone I know not to go here. If I could give DISCOUNT STEREO A ZERO I would. read more

I would give it zero starts if possible. Horrible service. I took my car first to get a dash camera installed then I saw they also installed alarm systems in cars, I asked about it. Don seemed like a good guy, and I thought they knew how to do their job. I wish I had some research on the place but I didn't. They over charged, kept my car for two days and left a mess in my car. After they installed the alarm system, an alert now keeps coming up about my parking light malfunctioning. I took my car to the dealership and they checked everything and turns out they left all kinds of cables disconnected inside and just made a mess. If they don't know what the hell they're doing, they shouldn't be messing with anyone's car no more. If you're looking for a good place to install anything in your car, please save your time and money and go somewhere else. I would 100% never recommend this place to anyone! Like I said I wish I had done some research before leaving my car with them. Now I have to take it to the dealership so they can fix their mistakes and I that will be pretty expensive! read more

Installation was good the price was $100.00 more than I was told. I was charged $35.00 to run a wire for the Blue tooth mic. The wire harness and antenna adpater ( $20.00 retail ) cost $60.00 read more

purchased a car stereo from them. brought it back because the sub was playing highs and mids and sounded horrible when I brought it back, the guy told me to BUY MORE STUFF. I knew this was bs so I brought it to best buy and they told me that these guys screw up stereos all the time. Dalton from best buy took one look at it and replaced the crap they gave me and my stereo sounds perfect. Will be calling them tomorrow to tell them their worker there has no idea what he's doing!!!!! read more

stopped here today to get a harness for aftermarket radio, the owner gave me the wrong one and i felt overcharged after checking other places and finding out i paid double for the wrong harness read more

These guys are great. The owner will work with you on a price. The installation was very clean and professional. I have taken two cars to these guys. There is not a lot of waiting around the installer is there all the time so you can have the radio installed same day. read more

GREAT EXPERIENCE & GREAT PRICES! I was searching everywhere for a good alarm system to replace the factory alarm. After visiting best buy and two other stores I finally came across discount stereo, and I'm glad I did. I walked into the store and met Don (the owner), after speaking with him I knew this was the spot. He showed me my options to choose from and quoted me a price. A price much lower than the others, so I decided to have Don install the alarm and go home and wait. I knew the alarm would be tricky to do because the used Tahoe I had just purchased came with a bunch of after market stuff and the wires below the dash looked like a huge problem. Plus, the system was already not working properly. When I arrived to pick up the Tahoe, Don said he came across a few complications and had to use additional parts. At that moment I knew I was going to pay more than I was quoted, but to my surprise, Don charged me the amount he quoted and gave me a 5 year warranty instead of the one year he had originally said. So, not only was my experience far from those with the one star, it's hard to image the things mentioned in the one star reviews. Yelp is a great place to learn the integrity of businesses, but there should definitely be a service out there reviewing some reviewers. I will be back very soon to get my amps and subs installed. I will be recommending Don to my friends and family, THANKS AGAIN!!! read more

If I could rate this place a zero out of five stars, I would. Not only did they not know what they were doing (even though they assured me that they did) but their "repair" actually damaged my system further. After these mistakes were pointed out to me by another shop, I returned to inform them about their hack job and ask for a refund, only to be told to "get the fuck out of the store". Stay away from this place at all costs, unless you want to be scammed. My gear was brand new going into the store and was completely screwed up upon leaving it. read more

Don was very helpful and was willing to negotiate prices which was nice as I wasn't sure how much I wanted to spend. The work was done very nicely (and quickly I might add) and I have no complaints about the quality of the workmanship. Four stars instead of five because, like other people have said in reviews, I would have appreciated a call before certain decisions were made. I wanted my amp installed under my seat and it was put in the trunk because it would not fit. While I understand the trunk is a much better place for it, with having a convertible I lost about a third of my trunk capacity which is already next to nothing. Had he called me I would have not installed the amp I brought in because my convertible is a road trip car and I need the space more than I need an amp. Aside from that, there weren't many options to choose from for head units, and the display with active units didn't seem to match any that were for sale, meaning I couldn't demo anything I was interested in. I went ahead with blind faith anyways and overall I am satisfied with the experience. read more

worst place to come to! the owner is a complete liar! i came here to get my wires to my sytem cleaned up because my kids would always step on them! he first tried to charge me 75 just to look at it (which was pointless because all i wanted was the wires to be cleaned up) so i said no thanks and then the owner gives me a price of 50 dollars to clean the wires up and it would take 30-45 min long. we agreed and i signed. my mistake was to not get the copy if the receipt. he had promised me that anything additional we would talk about first before moving on. long story cut short he tried to chare me 275 dollars! cops were called and i ended up still paying 50 and he left my system in a way worse condition! this guy sucks!!!!!! read more

If I could give this place 0 Stars I would. I am so incredibly disappointed. I used them to install some TVs I bought online and they installed two TVs in backrests for $100 so I wanted to give them more business. I purchased a stereo for my 16 year old son for Christmas on Amazon. He just recently purchased his car and wanted a stereo with Bluetooth compatibility so that he could stream music. I called this place when I found a stereo on Amazon and asked if they had anything comparable in price and they said they did not. They proceeded to tell me that they would be able to install it for $60 if I purchased it. The day after Christmas I called and they stated it would be $60 plus parts and he could bring it in. The parts online that are needed add up to $20 so I figured worse case scenario it would be $100. Four hours later they called my son to tell him his car was ready. When he got there to pick it up they charged him $177. They never bothered to call to tell us part cost they just did the work. They totally took advantage of my 16 year old. What would have happened if he did not have $177 in his account to pay for it? Where do you ever take a car and not have them give you prices on parts before they do work? I called them back and expressed my disappointment and they guy who was apparently the manager said I don't know what to tell you. I asked him to have the owner call me so I could discuss and he took my number. It has now been 5 days and I never heard a word back. Do not do business with this place. read more