So Cal Home Theater

Arti B.

So glad I came across So Cal Home Theater on Yelp! Adam made himself available to meet my parents right away to give a quote for a last minute tv installation. He gave them a few reasonably priced options and was incredibly professional. My parents are very satisfied with his work and we will be recommending him to everyone!

Lynn T.

These guys are awesome! This review is a little overdue but we are very happy with their work. We had a TV moved and mounted to a different wall in our family room so they had to move all the connections too and add power. Can't even tell that the TV was once on a different wall and the new cuts in the new wall are very clean and hidden by the TV and cabinet holding our new equipment. We also had 5 speakers put in the family room that had no pre-wiring. I thought it was going to be a big project/expense but not for these guys. I'm sitting hear listening to my speakers boom through the house thinking my neighbors are going to complain at any moment. I went off of their recommendations for speakers btw because I could not find any information online even with model numbers. Our system included a receiver with a universal remote so everything can be run thru it. Directv, Pandora, Netflix, apple TV, DVD, etc. I love it! I am able to watch video's taken on my phone on my TV!

We also had a TV mounted in our outdoor room that was not prewired and speakers put in that were already prewired outside. Again I thought this was going to be a big project/expense but not for these guys. They were able to run power easily and hide the plug and I upgraded my equipment to get a wireless cable box (thru Directv) and that is hidden as well behind the TV. Everything is very clean and looks like it is supposed to be like that.

I would highly recommend them and use them again! Thanks for the great system guys!

Christian B.

I recently moved into a house that is not ideal for surround and very not ideal for in-wall speakers. I needed So Cal to supply five new in-wall speakers and replace my projection screen (wall mounted, motor driven) then install it all as well as the projector and a sub-woofer placed far from the other electronics. . They said they could do it in a day. I had my doubts. They did it even including drywall patching and matching the paint color of the walls. I spent more time tuning and adjusting the system to my preferences than they spent cutting, pulling cables and patching and painting. Professional, excellent service and I feel I got my money's worth.

PS to Cole B the guy with the one start review. Combining speaker wires is quite normal. The connection from my mono amp to my sub-woofer consists of five wires bound and soldered to act as one. That was required by John Moravskis, the man who built that sub-woofer as the only way to make a proper connection for low frequency handling.

Cole B.

I would definitely not use these guys again. I recently had them do a surround sound system and run some cat 5 wire in a house that was being built and before the drywall went in.
For the speaker wire I asked if they would install 12 or 14 gauge wire. Well they did install some 14 gauge wire on the short runs, but they ran super thin 18 gauge wire to 4 of the speakers with the longest run. When i called to inquire about this they just said,""oh we doubled up the 18 gauge wire so it's ok."" Well they ran 2 separate 18 gauge wires in their own separate sleeves and wanted me to connect two of those separate wires to each of the positive and negative receiver and speaker terminals. I thought this sounded kind of hokey, so after talking to other audio experts they could not believe that any professional company/person would do it this way and that it would definitely compromise the sound. I gave So Cal Home Theater plenty of notice that I wanted this change (at least a week) so they had time to get the proper material but its as if they just didn't buy enough wire and decided to run cheaper thinner wire to the long runs. But you can be sure that they upcharged me for the thicker wire.

I also asked them if they could run cat 6 wire instead of cat 5 wire to all the internet connections. Well the guy said that cat 5 is fine and I reluctantly agreed. Later on I heard from other audio experts that they have not run cat 5 in years and that the cost of cat 6 is almost negligible but the quality is superior. Keep in mind that the house is in framing and once this is installed and the drywall goes in it cannot be changed, but still it didn't seem like these guys even cared.

So in the end I'm not sure if So Cal Home Theater just didn't know these details, or they just dont care about the quality of their work, or maybe both. But I would definitely not recommend them.

Grace A.

We are very happy with the professional, quick, honest and reasonably priced experience that the staff at So Cal Home Theater gave us. Everything was very smooth, from the initial quote to the install. This was a very pleasant experience and now we can actually hear our movies. Thanks so much guys!!!!!!

Jerry C.

If you want a theatre in your home - this is the ONLY call you need to make. From my first call to the day they left our house and said goodbye, these folks made this a purely joyful process. Even today I can call them with follow-up questions. I could write 10,000 words about So Cal Home Theatre. Let me write a few: Spectacular. Experts. Affordable. Trustworthy. Reliable. Congruent.
Make just one call. To these guys!

Cindy G.

What a great company. I called another company I found on Yelp and while he didn't do much mobile stuff, he referred me to Terry at So Cal Home Theater. I called and Adam answered in a very professional manner. Introduced myself and explained my somewhat highly sophisticated system (well by my standards anyway) was having problems working. It's a vacation rental and that's what I do for a living and had guests staying there with no TV so I had originally called another company who were non responsive but Adam had Javier out there within a couple hours. Very professional and super nice. Fixed the problem and also made sure all the other rooms were working. Explained and gave simple options and took no time at all. I highly recommend this company. Even though they had a short staff because of the holidays, they still made it happen!!! Thank you So Cal Home Theater. 5 stars for sure!

WD J.

Excellent!. These fellows came, did thorough estimate, installed A/V and stereo pieces to customer's exact(ing) specifications that (another) dealer had left in disarray before vanishing. Advised well, listened to me, reasonable. Came ""from out of area"" even.

Having them back when more equipment comes to place it, they are helpful for stuff purchased elsewhere and even sound absorbing materiel.

My location: San Marcos 92069.

JoeMahma S.

I would just like to yelp that i had a great experince with this company. Everything was done ontime and on budget. To add to that - they were clean and professional. They did a ton of work to my home and everything works perfectly and my home has become the ""house on the block"" to watch movies in due to how well my new home theater sounds. Thank you So Cal Home Theater for a job well done- Use these guys!

Jim L.

I didn't actually use this company, but I watched its YouTube videos on how to mount a TV above a fireplace. I'm not a big DIY type of guy, but the videos were incredible. They made the installation process a breeze, and I was able to do this project without any screw ups. Thank you So Cal Home Theater for the great videos! If I lived in the area, I would hire you to do all of my projects.