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 |
| Type: | Precision service, repair, overhaul and restoration of classic hi-fi stereo equipment |
| Speciality: | Amplifiers, preamplifiers, turntables, cassette decks, CD players, DACs, transports, receivers, tuners |
| Brands: | Accuphase, Akai, Denon, Dual, Esoteric, JVC, Krell, Kenwood/Trio, Linn, Luxman, Marantz, Musical Fidelity, Nakamichi, Perreaux, Pioneer, Plinius, Quad, Rotel, Sansui, Sony, TEAC, Technics, Thorens, Yamaha, and more |
| 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, hidden-ID and weird-hours 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 as guided by the date suggested
Booking demand generally exceeds our capacity (for good reasons), so wait times may be experienced. The specialised, non-linear 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: | Bookings available |
| Consultation/advice: | Bookings available |
| Interstate/non-Aus bookings: | Currently unavailable |
| Updated: | 9 September |
| Check again: | 15 September |
| Notes: | Experiencing my second significant CFS flare-up in 2026, but work continues. |
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 hi-fi advice can yield transformational results, as our customers know, but the requisite expertise is rare, and armchair experts, ‘gurus‘, misinformation, sales pressure and rabbit holes proliferate.
Our advisory service delivers expert guidance and factual information from the specialist responsible for this much-loved website and entrusted with caring for beautiful equipment like this, this, this and this.
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 in all your articles …
Marius M
Advisory consultations are available in 15-, 30-, and 60-minute options that pay for themselves handsomely. We 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
Notes
If you value our work, you can support us. This half-million-word website is the result of thousands of hours of work and is viewed by tens of thousands a month. It’s completely free, and there really 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 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.