About Us

Planet Audio-Tech was established in 1993 by Matt Stubbs along side his Locksmithing business Mattlock Locksmiths or 0800 Locked out as its known today. Matt had the businesses running side by side for 15 years in town until the 2010 Feb earthquake and him and his staff moved the businesses to his 120sq mtr workshop at home where they still work today serving the chch area. With over 45 years combined experience in car audio Matt and his team have competed in many competitions over the last 27 years from sound quality cars and have many 1st,2nd place trophies to there name winning dozens of titles over the years including DB drags and held the Australasian DB drag title for over 5 years. Matt and his team were pimping interiors way before Pimp my ride was even born and have transformed the average car into amazing works of art.

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Who We Are

The staff at Planet Audio-Tech Ltd are a very talented group with years of experience, Matt is the longest standing Car Audio shop owner in chch and has been in the industry for over 30 years, his 2IC Hamish has worked for Matt for over 20 years and handles all the audio,alarm and GPS installs so you know your car is in good hands with the knowledge collected over the years.

Our History

Matt Stubbs owner/manager started Planet Audio-Tech Ltd up along side his locksmithing business in 1993 when he was 21 years old, with $300 in his pocket and the drive to success, he worked part time at the Plant Nursery Betta Plants where he had worked as a teenager from 13 years old every night after school and Saturdays. He worked at night for 2 years to make enough money to survive and keep all the cash in his businesses while he got going, It soon started to grow working from a garage at his parents house soon became to small and the first 5 years the car audio business doubled in size every year, he had a shop at 332 Cashel Street for 10 years in the peek of the car audio years and then 9a Dearsly street up until the earthquake when he moved the businesses home to his workshop where he still runs today supplying top end car audio, alarms, GPS tracking and car cameras to his Christchurch customers.