Signal Electronics

Let’s compare.
Shopping at Best Buy:
1) $ 100 hdmi cables that are supposed to make my video picture «glisten»
2) Helpers who are instructed to up-​sell me to home theater systems when I buy a usb cable
3) Helpers who say I’m wrong when I mention new products that I know about personally
4) Reboxed packages with critical missing components
Shopping at Signal Electronics:
1) $ 7 hdmi cables that work as well as the $ 100 Best Buy cables (hint — digital)
2) Helpers who answer my questions. Intelligently.
3) Helpers who have never tried to put me down
4) No reboxed packages
It’s a solid win for Signal Electronics

In the old days there were many electronics stores. Even Radio Shack carried a good selection of electronic components. Now that is no longer the case. The only one left in my neighborhood is Signal Electronics. They may not be stocked with a large assortment of popular gadgets but if you are an electronics hobbyist or you are looking for that hard to find electronic part, this is the place to go. I have found (and I say this with the utmost respect) that the folks that work here are smart nerdy typse and not sales people. They will usually have the answer to your question; just give them a chance to articulate it.
Next time? Great selection on small watch type batteries.

This place is nothing short of a joke.
Overpriced and their inventory is near non-​existant.
Used to be a good place, but those days are long gone.
I’ll never shop there again.

I went in asking about parts for constructing a self-​use electric chair and they said, «Sure no problem!». They helped me with my plans and now I’m confident my project will have sufficient power delivery and will work without a hitch!

Been going since I was in elementary school (80s). Always enjoyed looking at their LEDs, resistors, etc. they were also cheaper than their competitor Cash electronics who is no longer in business. Great to see this place still around. The building pretty much looks the same as it did then.

Never a complaint… has great selection of hard to find parts… good pricing. staff is knowledgeable… have to look for parking though. across the street in shopping center if possible. appears best bet…
Be safe though… don’t jay walk. cross at the signal.

This is my go to place for all of my electronic needs. The staff is professional and very knowledgeable even when dealing with dumb-a@# like me who don’t know the correct terms for what the hell I’m looking for…
Stopped in today for a «Micro-USB»…The guy working found it pronto and he even opened the package to make sure it was the correct size. Very awesome.
I’ll be back again…

Parts stores are having trouble, there aren’t good margins when your volume is low. Signal sells lots of small, inexpensive parts that help DIY types do it themselves. I found the employees informed and willing.
Recommended.

I just called them asking for advice and if they had parts to build a circuit. Their reply «oh. uh. I wouldn’t know how to do that, we just help people get things from a catalog»… The one things that makes a local business worth going to is EXPERTISE and HELPFUL SERVICE. of which this place lacks both.
I’ll stay at home, do more of my own research and order from a cheaper online catalog.

I’ve had good luck here as the less expensive alternative to Radio Shack and MacMall. Stardard audio and TV cables are much less expensive. The last network cables I purchased were about half the price of MacMall. The help is well informed about their product, but a little bit of propeller head geeks.

I was told the switch I needed was difficult to replace, and would cost $ 150 by the manufacturer of my massage table. I was able to find the switch for $ 5.76 at Signal, and the guy showed me what I needed to do to fix it. It took me 20 minutes, and the table is as good as new. Many thanks to these guys.

This place is solid. The people who work here know what they have, where it is, and what it’s used for. If you go to Best Buy and buy a $ 70 DVD player, they’ll try to sell you $ 60 «Monster» cables to hook it up with, and that’s the only brand they carry. Hah! Go to Signal, and they’ll have good workhorse components that perform every bit as well, for a much more reasonable price, delivered without the attitude. (Consumer Reports, by the way, says that if you’re hooking together components that cost less than $ 5,000 each, you won’t get any better performance out of the «high-​end» cables than the standard ones.) As another reviewer mentioned, they have better-​quality merchandise than Radio Shack, and moreover they can tell you if you’re picking up the wrong thing for what you want to do. This has been my first go-​to place for electronics components for years, and I hope it’s there forever!

Local electronic shop that sells the necessities. Prices are reasonable, the products sold here are more hardcore components that the average (better manufacturers than your local Radio Shack). Service is very good, and I’ve been buying all of my good here.

One word: EXPENSIVE.
The local electronic component market has gone up exponentially in the past several years due to most of the good shops going out of business. And when you don’t have competition, nothing good ever comes of it – at least for the consumer.
Signal Electronics has taken advantage of that and hiked their prices up.
I only shop here if I need something immediately and can’t find if at Torrance Electronics. If I can wait, I usually order it online.