Does your cherished hi-fi stereo equipment need a little TLC?
No problem, contact us to discuss your hi-fi stereo equipment service, repair, overhaul, advice, valuation and condition assessment/inspection requirements.
You’ll find our business details, along with information on how to book equipment, our current booking status and our enquiry form, and quite a bit more, on this page.
Business Details
| Proprietor: | ‘Liquid’ Mike Fitzpatrick BSc(Hons) GDipEd(Sc) UWA |
| ABN: | 65209381407 |
| Location: | 25 Mathis Way, Carine, Western Australia, 6020 |
| Speciality: | Precision service, repair, overhaul and restoration of classic hi-fi stereo equipment |
| Equipment focus: | Amplifiers, preamplifiers, turntables, cassette decks, CD players, DACs, transports, receivers, tuners |
| Brand focus: | Accuphase, Akai, Denon, Dual, Esoteric, JVC, Krell, Kenwood/Trio, Linn, Luxman, Marantz, Musical Fidelity, Nakamichi, Onkyo, Perreaux, Pioneer, Plinius, Quad, Rotel, Sansui, Sony, TEAC, Technics, Thorens, Yamaha |
| Open: | Tuesday – Friday, 10 – 5 Saturday, 10 – 1, Perth time |
| Bookings: | By appointment, during business hours |
| Contact details: | Enquiry form (bottom of page) Voice/video calls (+61) 0439 690 436 Text messages and hidden-ID calls are filtered |
How To Book
Booking equipment with us is easy:
- Check our booking status table below for the booking type you require
- If bookings are available, request one using the enquiry form at the bottom of this page
- If we’re fully booked, check again on or around the date suggested
Booking demand generally exceeds our capacity, so wait times may be experienced. The specialised, unpredictable nature of our work means waitlists don’t work for us, but don’t hesitate to enquire, even if we’re fully booked.
Booking Status
Check here before requesting a booking:
| Booking Type | Availability |
| Service: | Fully booked |
| Repair: | Fully booked |
| Overhaul/restoration: | Fully booked |
| Inspection/valuation: | Fully booked |
| Consultation/advice: | Bookings available |
| Interstate/non-Aus bookings: | Currently unavailable |
| Updated: | 21 September |
| Check again: | 1 October |
| Notes: | Experiencing my second significant CFS flare-up in 2026. A big thank you to customers who’ve been patiently waiting for a booking, I appreciate you! 🙂 |
FAQs
Check out 160 hi-fi FAQs I’ve created to address questions I’m frequently asked, including:
- How do I book equipment for service?
- How much will my service or repair cost?
- About class A, class AB and class D amplifiers
- Is turntable hum ‘normal’?
- What’s the “50 hours” cartridge meme?
- Should I play records on my radiogram?
- What’s the best moving coil preamplifier?
- What’s better – vintage or modern CD players?
- Should I replace capacitors?
- Why don’t all CD players sound the same?
- I’m having trouble with cartridge alignment.
- What’s better – belt drive or direct drive?
- How good is the Denon DL-103?
- Can I use 100V equipment in Australia?
- I blew up my 100V equipment, can you help?
- + over 140 more!
Advice & Guidance
Expert advice can yield truly transformational results, as our customers know. In a hobby where uninformed opinions and misinformation proliferate and trustworthy, factual sources are rare, Liquid Audio proudly delivers science-and-experience-informed expertise and knowledge from a unique and rarely accessible specialist perspective.
Advice, guidance and insight, direct from the hi-fi content creator/fanatic/technican entrusted with equipment like this, this, this and this, pays for itself and can assist with:
- Choosing and sourcing/importing hi-fi equipment
- Pre, power, integrated and phono amplifiers
- Sources including CD players, DACs, tuners and, of course…
- Turntables, cartridges, phono preamps, tonearms and all things vinyl
Advisory consultations are available in 15-, 30-, and 60-minute options.
Your articles are the best in the hifi space anywhere in the world. Better than anything in the hifi magazines, be they Stereophile, Hifi News and Record Review or The Absolute Sound … You bring real science and a genuine appreciation of music reproduction …
Marius M
Notes
I’ve put a great deal out there for a very long time, and if you value my work, you can support us. This half-million-word website is the result of thousands of hours of work, is completely free, and there is nothing else like it 🙂
Liquid Audio does not offer free advisory consultations or equipment valuations, but we will gladly arrange bookings, subject to availability.
Liquid Audio does not offer remote technical assistance, retail parts sales, kits, service data, or proprietary technical information.
Mike, my system is better than anything I would have imagined I’d ever own. Thanks for your advice and continued service towards tragics like me. You’re a good man and unique in what you do.
Brian E
[Mike is] one of the most helpful guys I have ever spoken to about hi-fi.
Mark T
Hi Mike, loved the Sansui AU-8500 article. I’m not sure where the balance between cost/time and benefits to the business lies… but your articles are quite something and very unique.
Phillip M
Mike … you, of course, are a gem. We are so lucky to have someone as passionate, intelligent, ethical and hardworking in little ol’ Perth.
David H
I love your website (it’s very tidy, clear and easy to navigate, with a wealth of information and photos of desirable hardware). I am also very impressed with the quality of work and level of detail I see on the repairs and restorations you do.
Kerry G
Hello Mike, very nice website and PROFESSIONAL work you perform on this audio vintage gear. Read your Sansui AU-20000 repair page and loved how great your work ethics are … I felt very positive to react on your good work.
Robert S
Mike, I friggin’ love my amp. You are personally responsible for rekindling my love for music!
Brian E
Enquiry Form
Submit, and we shall respond, typically within one business day.