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July 2023 by Niko B
Cool place for audio
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February 2023 by Matt Cerasa
I’m gonna try to sum up the value of this place. I’m an early 80s kid who spent my youth at Roxy wheels roller skating rink and the RC car hobby shop in the same plaza. Century Electronics was located in the same plaza. My friends and I would go in the store and look at all the hifi stereo equipment. This was probably nearing the end of the HIFI stereo era which produced the best iconic stereo equipment of all time. Needless to say we were tolerated even tho we couldn’t afford anything in the store.Fast forward 30 years. My collection of stereo equipment was all manufactured before I was born by a good decade. It’s the type of equipment that you get fixed and will never ever see the bottom up a dumpster. The number of individuals still alive with the skill to service these units and restore them to their glory is dwindling every year that goes by. Century Electronics has not 1, but 2 old school techs that can fix anything from Marantz receivers, McIntosh tube amplifiers to speakers all made before the Vietnam war. They take pride in their work and preserve quality by refusing to use cheap Chinese capacitors and other inferior parts. This is the only place I will take my equipment. Don’t expect to walk in for the ABT style showroom with 100k of product. The back room repair shop is where it’s at here.
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January 2023 by Matt C.
I'm gonna try to sum up the value of this place. I'm an early 80s kid who spent my youth at Roxy wheels roller skating rink and the RC car hobby shop in the same plaza. Century Electronics was located in the same plaza. My friends and I would go in the store and look at all the hifi stereo equipment. This was probably nearing the end of the HIFI stereo era which produced the best iconic stereo equipment of all time. Needless to say we were tolerated even tho we couldn't afford anything in the store.Fast forward 30 years. My collection of stereo equipment was all manufactured before I was born by a good decade. It's the type of equipment that you get fixed and will never ever see the bottom up a dumpster. The number of individuals still alive with the skill to service these units and restore them to their glory is dwindling every year that goes by. Century Electronics has not 1, but 2 old school techs that can fix anything from Marantz receivers, McIntosh tube amplifiers to speakers all made before the Vietnam war. They take pride in their work and preserve quality by refusing to use cheap Chinese capacitors and other inferior parts. This is the only place I will take my equipment. Don't expect to walk in for the ABT style showroom with 100k of product. The back room repair shop is where it's at here.
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October 2022 by randy kovacs
Ken is awesome
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February 2022 by Bob T.
I'm an audiophile with large speakers from the 1980s whose woofers were failing. They repaired the speakers at what I thought was a very reasonable price and were very prompt. I recommend Century Electronics in west Dundee.
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August 2021 by Fro 20
I miss the lodie commercials. Cause he is lodie and your not.
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April 2021 by Bob McMurray
Ken was ery helpful will send my friends.
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September 2019 by Lar Hines
The best people to deal with.
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March 2014 by Jacek Grob
Great shop if you want your car stereo system done right. I have done all 3 of my previous cars anywhere from custom sub enclosure,multiple amps set-up to just a head unit upgrade, they do it all. Highly recommended.
