Knight Sounds Entertainment

Carlos is great, very helpful and patient and down-​to-​earth. If you’re a fan of vinyl records, the whole store is full of them, and he has a huge by-​the-​pound sale you’ll see mentioned by other reviewers. I went in with a problem with my turntable and he helped me diagnose it as a pre-​amp issue and sold me an upgrade (used) at a reasonable price. The only reason I’m not giving five stars is the parking is terrible in this little strip shopping center. I ended up taking my chances in the lot in back, which is for some apartment, I think. Glad I wasn’t ticketed or towed.

(Update on vinyl purchases and the shop only)
I’ve known about Carlos’ annual vinyl sale, but finally got to see it in person. Wow, crates and crates of gems everywhere.
Lotsa cool records, a lottt of doubles for that beat juggling madness!
Walked out with 45 pounds of vinyl for $ 20. (50 cents a pound and $ 5 discount if you shared the sale on FB).
It was really cool to be with a bunch of vinyl diehards going through records. Carlos’ kids running around. His son is really cool and I gotta give props to Carlos Senior for letting Junior take care of customers and their purchases. I grew up with that brick and mortar small biz environment at the San Jose Berryessa Flea Market and it just teaches you so much in all areas.
Carlos is a really nice guy with your gear too, he took a look at my old Sennheiser headphones over a year ago for a connectivity problem. The case was sealed and it would’ve have to be broken to see the soldering and then be unusable. No charge to leave it there and have him go over it.
My turntables are fine (AT-120’s) but if I needed a tune up or upgrades, I’d definitely see Carlos.
He still gigs with only vinyl, my gosh, steel crates and hauling heavy ass records. I gotta respect that. Everyone’s going with Serato and Traktor and Recordbox these days but he just relishes his craft regardless, in his own words, «it makes me more unique.»
Looking forward to building a bigger vinyl collection this year to do more strictly vinyl sets for fun.

I came here hoping to get my audio mixer fixed. I met up with Carlos in the morning, he thoroughly tested my mixer and told me that there wasn’t any issue. It must have been a cable I was using that was damaged.
Anyways, he was very helpful in taking his time to look at my equipment w/​o any charge. He seems like a veteran in the business and knows the in’s and out’s. I might come back here to get my tonearm replaced since he’s close by and trustworthy

Carlos is a true master at his craft. We spoke with several dj’s before speaking with Carlos and from the first conversation we had with him, he was a true professional. We sat with him and he ran down our list of how our special day would go from A to Z. After gathering all the music and lists he asked us to provide, we sat with him one more time and ran through our plan one more time. He made our day perfect by providing music and direction that kept our loved ones entertained and shaking it on the dance floor. Carlos dots all the i’s and crosses all the t’s. I will recommend him to host any event and look forward to contracting him for any future needs. We thank you, Carlos, for really making our day extra special and helping make everything run smoothly.

I’ve been shopping at Knight Sounds since 2000, this is a 1 stop Dj Shop. You can find records here, they also do repairs and rentals. And everything is at a decent price, no surprises. What I really have enjoyed in the past years coming to the shop if there speedy turnaround on repairs.

Where do i start?
Carlos plays vinyl! Carlos has been a DJ for decades. He’s got the best music collection and will play ANYTHING you want. He is self-​sufficient, professional and super reliable. I would never go with another DJ for our big community events where i know i need somebody reliable and awesome music.
Thank you Carlos! See you next year!

As my past review indicates, I’ve been coming here off and on for the last 8 yrs since I moved to San Jose. Recently I had 2 of my DJ mixers act up with some cutting in and out volume madness and so I drove over to see if Carlos could help me. He wasn’t there during normal business hours the first time, so I made a return visit.
Here’s the deal — he now picks up his kids around 2:30−4pm and also coaches part time for their sports teams, so his advice to me was to call first before you stop by. No problem with that!
So I brought my first mixer in and instead of telling me it will be ready in a few days or a week, he says, «hang on». He’s cleans up the all faders and and checks one of the jacks and now it’s working perfectly. All in ten minutes while I waited! He knew exactly what to do when I didn’t. Thanks Carlos!
He even had an original fader button for one of mine that was missing. This is my Go-​To place for DJ equipment repair.

Awesome place, the person who works here (may be the owner) is one of the helpfulest people I’ve met that deals with customers. I’d seriously take you through everything he did nice that day, but I’d be a long review. Anyways, came here to get a stylus and «bam» the man busts out a whole cartridge with a stylus that fit mines… he takes apart his needle, hands me the stylus and says «this should work, slap this baby on there». Whatta you know, the man is a clear genius! So I ask the dude how much the stylus was considering that he took his needle apart just to make mines work. He answers with a…“lets see, I don’t want to over charge you, then again, I’m not sure how much these suckers go for now, so how bout you just give me $ 15 for it?” and there you go, I toss him his loot and I go walking out the door.
As I’m about to head out the parking lot, the man comes storming outside with a bunch of records and stops me from leaving (i thought, man this guy is gunna try to sell me some records that I probably don’t need) and says «hey there buddy, here’s some records for you to mess around with at home, enjoy». I politely thanked him and headed off.
Yeah, the dude was awesome, there was more than just that that he did to make myself feel welcome in the store, but thought I’d just share one quick little story. BTW those records he gave me were some late 90’s early 2000 hits, he gave me some legit ass records.
If I ever need DJ stuff, I’m definitely coming back here. I’d love to help the place out and buy records from this joint, but records to me right now is pointless.
TWO THUMBS UP! Keep the top notch customers service on point! Thanks again.

How often do you know all the employees of a store? Carlos and Dennis are very helpful. In a time of everything going digital, they both keep it real with their knowledge of vinyl and old school. They have rentals and new equipment to be used. If they dont have it then they can find it for you. Girlwise not really other than girls driving their dj boyfriends to the store.

I’m writing not a review of the record shop, but of the DJ that owns it: Carlos. He DJd our wedding in June… Wow, we got so lucky. He was the BOMB. He was very meticulous; sitting down with my husband and me beforehand to get a feel of what kind of music we liked, what kind of crowd we would have, etc. We had a huuuge range of music that we wanted (reggae, early 90s hip hop, cumbia, marimba, reggaeton, oldies, 80s, and even a few Irish songs). He was able to do it all!
He introduced the wedding party and the different events going on during the wedding, but he wasn’t one of those DJs that spends all kinds of time on the mic cracking jokes and talking, which we liked. Also he is bilingual, which we needed as we had both English and Spanish-​speaking guests.
But the best thing about Carlos was that he kept the dancefloor packed ALL NIGHT, from the very first song to the very last. I have never seen such a packed dancefloor; he seemed to know just the right songs to play at just the right times. I mean he had everyone dancing; the old folks, the young folks… everyone kept telling me how much fun they had dancing because the DJ was so great!
I got compliments on him for DAYS! I would recommend him to anyone; he really was the best. If you need a DJ for an upcoming event, you need to give him a call! You won’t be sorry.

I appreciate this shop for it’s local appeal. I always gotten great deals and service on the equipment that I’ve bought from them.
I have even an original vestax 05 repaired here. Although the service was a bit slow, I wasn’t in a rush, and I thought $ 70 for diagnosis and repair was a good deal to get the humming out of the mixer. It sounds as good as new now.

they were real helpfull with what i needed and when they saw that i was just looking around they didn’t bug me like many other stores that assume i am stealing. great costumer service, some of the best i have encountered. i can’t help it but to leave the store with at least a few records every time i go.

Great store and even better owners. My son although 13, is an aspiring DJ. He wants to rock vinyl instead of CD’s. We did not know that this store even existed until we pulled and advertisement off of Craigslist.
We were attracted to this store for Vinyl only. However, upon getting there we were amazed at the amount of DJ product, records, rentals, microphones, speakers, cd’s etc available.
The store is very small. But hey that added to the ambience. If you are looking for Hip Hop, Rap, R&B, and DJ Tools this is the place for you.
Dennis and Carlos were very helpful. Dennis offered great advice to my son in ways to market his DJ skills. He even offered the opportunity for him to watch him DJ a gig so that he could pick up some pointers.
The prices for the merchandise are fair. Picked up a large stck of vinyl for less than 40 bucks that would have cost us over 80 bucks at Streetlight. The amount of old school was amazing. They even have demo players in the store that allow you to play prior to buying.
Highly recommended…5 STARS

This place is great for Dj’s to find records of all sorts. They lose 2 stars because 1. They overprice certain records. 2. Whenever I asked when they would get more shipments of a certain record, they were never correct. (Could have saved me numerous trips to their store for no reason)

Love it! I’ve been going here since I was 13… but I’m 22 now, so these guys have been helping me dig for a minute! So welcoming, Dennis and Carlos are super cool. I might drop by to say hi sometime hehehe anyway, loved it when I was spinning cuz they always had everything!

A true local’s DJ shop. It’s a dusty little shop in a tiny no-​name strip mall. They carry most of the current mainstream hip-​hop, R&B, and dance 12″ records and there’s a small selection of older club records piled up in crates throughout the store. Prices tend to be on the high side, but if you’re in the area, you ought to check it out. Hey, you might find that elusive Stevie B. 12″ you’ve been hunting for.