Audio Lab

I’m picky. When it comes to my vehicles, I do a ton of research before I trust anyone with them. I just bought a new SUV and wanted an upgraded system. Audio Lab had the best reviews in OC. They did not disappoint. Great service by Carlos who helped me build a system according to the MUSIC I LIKE… not just what they had on the shelf or on-​sale. The car was as clean after the installation as when I brought it in — no bits of speaker wire on the floor or fingerprints on the glass. If anyone I know is looking to enhance their car audio, I won’t hesitate to recommend this place.

Excellent customer service + quality products + knowledgable staff + clean installations = Audiolab
***thank you again & again

New car = new review.
My last car was a 2003 Corolla and now I own a 2005 IS300 and knew right away that I needed a new head unit since the stock one just didn’t do it for me and I knew I would bring my new car to Audiolab. I knew right off the bat that the 05′ IS300 is a difficult car to change the stereo on. These guys have been very helpful with how dumb my car is. I will be taking my car back to get the stereo finished off and to have get my windows tinted (since my old tint shop lost me as a customer). Thanks guys!

Excellent people, excellent service, excellent products. Would not go anywhere else, very professional people.
Thank you Sam and Carlos
–Tanner

Second time I had Audiolab install a full stereo system for me. 2 cars, 2 excellent experiences. I have two more cars and Audiolab will be my first stop for my future car audio needs.
Today Carlos took care of me. Listened to all my needs and worked hard to arrive at the most cost effective, quality solution. He’s very knowledgable about product, a problem solver, and is overall just a great guy. I felt like he took care of me with respect, and delivered a quality outcome at a good price
Came in for a system check and I was treated so well I purchased a new head unit, speakers all around, subwoofer with enclosure, backup camera, and interior LED lighting. That’s what happens with satisfied customers.
Each time I came here I got exactly what I wanted. Dropped over $ 1500 each time but that’s ok. Absolutely worth it.
I’m about to take delivery of my car. If you don’t see another post from me it means everything was installed perfectly. Thanks, Carlos!

Got the viper key/​alarm set up for my car. My dealership wouldn’t do anything for me but these guys did. Very friendly and very helpful. Great area with restaurants and gas nearby while you wait. They also let you borrow a car if you need to.

Great customer service. Carlos and Sam are both great guys and their shop does amazing work on speakers. Provide spectacular deals, that you can’t beat anywhere else.

Sam is one of the coolest guys in this business, as an experienced installer for the last 10 years, I have travelled all over the nation because of my previous job requirements and I have always missed the service and goodwill offered by the guys at Audiolab. From simple suggestions and taking the time out of his day to review some of my more intricate personal installs and make valued recommendations to help me get over the humps that occasionally fog installers working on intricate car audio systems with a ton of external factors like DSP’s, Fully Active 3 way component networks fabricated into slim spots and help with generating SPL where nobody would ever even know it was possible. Sam has always gone above and beyond to earn my business, and I will continue to appreciate his friendship and outstanding quality and service for hopefully a long time to come.
From a professional standpoint, my advice to other consumers is as follows: you can tell the shops that stand out by the way they keep their showroom, cleanliness, relevance, knowledge of products, and having products ready to sell when you’re their to buy; if you have a chance, and you are invited by the staff, take a look at their install bay, it’s so clean, well organized, and current with regard to tooling and custom fab area that’s ready to do anything you can imagine; and finally, prices so competitive, fair and consistent your costing yourself money by checking elsewhere because ⁹⁄₁₀ times you’re just wasting time not taking the best offer Sam already gave you, bottom line is this shop is Top notch, and if you find yourself here then stay, and if you haven’t been hear then come see what i’m talking about. keep up the good work Sam.

After reading all of the glowing reviews, thought I’d stop in to buy some parts for a pending audio unit installation. I do my own installations as I’ve not had good luck with past vendors.
The guy at the counter asked one of his installers from the back to come help me. The kid was «dazed and confused.» Definitely not sober. He had trouble «processing» what I was asking for: certain gauges of wire and for what purpose. I don’t know if he was drunk or stoned but I sure am happy I can fix nearly everything in and on my own cars.
Wouldn’t trust these guys to work on my mountain bike…
Would caution potential clients to inquire who will be working on your car… Buyer beware…

Most AMAZING place I have been to!!! They were able to fix the screw up of another shop from Oregon, were completely reasonable in price. Outdid themselves in workmanship, customer service, and final product. I have never heard music sound so great! They also gave me a great car to use for the day!!! I will definitely be telling EVERYONE and returning with every vehicle I own!!! Thank you guys!!!

Great experience! I went in for an iPod cable for an older truck and come out with a new deck. Samuel took me through all my options and gave personal recommendations without up-​selling. It was clear that he was genuinely taking care of me and wanted me to leave with the best option for my truck. I will definitely recommend Audio Lab to all my friends and family.

I was first and foremost impressed by the level of service that Carlos provided upon my first ever visit. He was genuine and attentive and answered every question I had, even though I told him I was just looking at prices that day. I came back hours later to get a head unit and speakers and he really showed me a true level of customer service that you rarely see these days. He showed me all his store had to offer and let me decide without being pushy. I ended up with and alpine head unit and 4 hertz speakers installed in less than an hour. Not only did they do an amazing job he made sure to walk me through the setup of my new system, showed me all the features and really completed a great buying experience for me. I’m running this setup off the head unit alone and it sounds better than any system my friends have. From a fellow retailer to another, Well done guys!!!
I will be going back to Carlos at Audiolab for an amp and subs to complete my system.

Audio lab came recommended from a buddy of mine that did some in car electronics install. Just so happen he must of cursed me since my subwoofers blew shortly after while blasting that Beyoncé… Bought bmw subwoofers and they didn’t work, ended up with Match Bmw fitted subwoofer pair that fits just like oem and they sound great! They fit me in same day and installed in less than an hour. Amazing service and truly professional when it comes to dealing with customer expectations. They were also very reasonable on the pricing which I appreciated since most places try to gouge you when you roll up in a bimmer. I’ll be taking my other ride here soon! Don’t hesitate to use audio lab for your car audio!

Very helpful in choosing the right speakers to boost the sound quality in my Audi. Settled on 2 subs custom box in the trunk. Sounds great and looks great. Highly recommended.

The guys at Audio Lab are great! Patient with us seniors, which we are so grateful for. Sam synced the phone, set our radio stations and showed us how to listen to Pandora through our stereo! We are grooving now! My daughter recommended them to us, and now we are recommending them to you

I have had multiple dash-​cams installed by Sam at audio lab and most recently had my windows tinted and a couple of subs and an amp installed as well. They do amazing work! It’s not your typical steep shop. They don’t try to sell you on anything g you don’t need. They are honest and very reasonably priced.
I was sitting there waiting for my car to be done and the fellow working the counter (Carlos) was getting phone call after phone call and was answering them all with such professionalism. There was even a young kid that came in and installed his own amp that he bought online. He asked Carlos if someone could help him tune it, and Carlos went out to the kids car and tuned it for him in 5 – 10 mins. I waited to see if he was going to charge him and I didn’t see any type of monetary exchange. I don’t want people to read this and think that they can go there and they will get freebies, cause that isn’t going to happen. You can’t stay in business by doing that, but you just don’t see businesses do that type of stuff for a kid with his first car that probably didn’t have enough money to have his equipment professionally installed.
Hopefully that little bit of information has helped you decide to do business with these folks. If you are looking for a place to give your business to, I would definitely give it to them. I know I will continue to send people to them!

I totally forgot to add my review for Audio Lab, so this is a bit late. I had 4 Hertz 6″ speakers with tweeters installed, along with a Hertz 900w amp as well as a 10″ subwoofer. They custom made me a box for the sub that fits perfectly inside my trunk. Doesn’t take too much room and is perfect for leaving me all my trunk space. The speakers sound incredible. The whole set up is incredible. Everyone at Audio Lab were super helpful, polite and definitely knowledgeable. I had to take it back for a little problem I was having with one of the tweeters cutting out from time to time. I brought it in and they fixed it no charge. If you’re looking to have any kind of stereo equipment added to your car, go by and talk to them at Audio Lab, you’ll be glad you did.

Thanks again Unilocalers you did it again. Based on your reviews I headed to Audio Lab for a system for my new ride. It’s a cool ride, but a bit on the lo-​tech side. So I went in for Nav, Bluetooth, backup camera. It cost me a G but I’m happy with the end result. But the service there is freaking awesome. As you all said «Sam is the man». When I walked in Carlos greeted me and I told him what I was looking for. He showed me around until Sam was done with his customer. Sam joined us and gave me the low down. He was very knowledgeable and informative and rather than a sales pitch, he seem truly excited about telling me about the product and matching my needs to the system.
Ok here the cream. I ended going for it but needed to figure out how I was going to get home while they did the install. Said they had a customer car. Great I get a ride home. NO, they gave me the keys and said take it home and bring it back when the install is done. WTF! A car stereo place with their own courtesy car?! Now that the shiznit!
The only small issue I had was when my car was done (6:30pm Friday nite) they gave me my keys and said enjoy your new system. They did not offer to review or tune by system for me. They just said to call them if I have any issues. They said the system would sound much better than my stock sounds and I was a little concerned on the drive home as the radio did not sound as good. But once I got to tune the EQ to my specs the sound is as good if not better then my old system.
One last thing I noticed was almost all the customers coming and going from the shop were very happy and complimentary to them and their service. Can’t pay for that kind of marketing. Well I guess you can but I don’t think they did. This joint is legit!

Sam’s the man!!! After a «not so good» experience at Audio Toyz (check my review) I drove a bit further to Audio Lab. I was greeted right away by Sam and he literally had me sold and scheduled in about 5 minutes! He checked out my truck and showed me what would work out.
I showed up for my appointment, and although it took a bit longer than expected, my truck turned out way better than expected! The tech actually tuned my system to the type of music I listen to as well. Great service, super fair pricing! Great job, Sam!

They did a great job, and did not scruff up any of my interior which is what I was concerned about. I had alternator whine with stock amplifier, so they had to re-​wire the next day (they offered to do it right away, but I had to go somewhere important) which resulted in me needing to buy a sub-​amplifier. I’ve been enjoying my new pioneer head unit very much and everything works great, including the rear view camera. Sam offered a good price on the navigation add-​on unit pioneer offers, but I am not sure that I’d use navigation enough to justify the purchase.
Other than that, my only complaints are:
1. The price was higher than the other few shops I looked at first, that had lesser ratings.
2. I was not asked where I wanted the microphone installed… the spot where it was installed gets in the way of the lexus pull out slider on the driver-​side sunshade when I’m trying to use a sun-​shade while parked to block light from around the rear-​view mirror.
3. My glove box no longer closes easily after the installation. I have to shove it upwards now for it to secure. Thankfully I don’t use it, and my usb/​aux is in the center console. Could be a simple fix. maybe I’ll look inside someday.
I appreciate the good quality service and I would recommend them if you’re not trying to go for a cheap install. Who knows what a place with low ratings could do!