Does your cherished hi-fi stereo equipment need a little TLC?
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 us: | Enquiry form ▿ Voice/video call (+61) 0439 690 436 Text messages and hidden-ID calls are filtered, and we don’t see them |
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, and the specialised, unpredictable nature of the work means waitlists aren’t practical. If you are in a rush, we may not be able to assist, but don’t hesitate to enquire, and we can make that determination based on your circumstances.
Booking Status
| Booking Type | Availability |
| Service: | Almost full! |
| Repair: | Fully booked |
| Overhaul/restoration: | Fully booked |
| Inspection/valuation: | Limited bookings available |
| Consultation/advice: | Limited bookings available |
| Interstate/non-Aus bookings: | Currently unavailable |
| Updated: | 3 October |
| Check again: | 1 November |
| Notes: | Experiencing another CFS flare-up, thanks for your patience, 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!
Expert Advice
Want to know what will actually improve your system, sounds amazing and is engineered to last, rather than what people want or need you to buy? In a hobby saturated with misinformation, marketing and worse, expert, trustworthy sources of information are truly rare.
Liquid Audio proudly offers science-and experience informed consultations from a unique and rarely accessible specialist perspective, and someone who has cared for, listened to and written about thousands of pieces of hi-fi equipment, like this, this, this and this.
Expert advice can save time, money and yield transformational results, as our customers know well. Our 15-, 30- and 60-minute consultations deliver insight and expertise on a range of topics:
- Choosing, sourcing and importing hi-fi equipment
- Tailored hi-fi system improvement
- Pre, power, integrated and phono amplifier choices
- Sources including CD players, DACs, tuners and, of course…
- Turntables, cartridges, phono preamps, tonearms and all things vinyl
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
If you like what we do, you can support us. I’ve created a huge amount of unique, free content and this half-million-word website is the result of thousands of hours of work. I’m regularly told there is nothing else like it
Consultations and valuations are paid services, and we will gladly arrange bookings, subject to availability. We don’t offer remote technical assistance, retail sales, kits, service data, or 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.