Looking for more hi-fi and electronics content?
There’s a ton more stuff to read and explore here on the Liquid Audio website, but if you want even more, here are a few links that I’ve enjoyed over the years to keep you busy!
Hi-Fi Gear
- Liquid Audio YouTube channel: For hi-fi repair videos, restorations and extra stuff I haven’t put here
- The Vintage Knob: A great place for the specs and stories behind classic hi-fi gear
- Vinyl Engine: The home of the turntable, cartridges and tonearms databases, and manuals for everything turntable-related
- HiFi Engine: A literal treasure trove of hi-fi equipment information, manuals etc
- Tapeheads.Net: The place to go for enthusiasts of cassette tape and cassette decks
- Hoppe’s Brain: The place to go in the USA for ADCOM repairs, restorations and new boards
- Stereophile: Still one of the best magazines for hi-fi enthusiasts
- Classic Audio: Another great vintage audio website
- Audio Classic: A new website looking at classic audio gear
- Audio Science Review: A great site and resource focused on the scientific measurement of equipment. Just be aware that measurements miss many things about how equipment actually sounds, strange but true.
Electronics
- I’m often asked how I started out in electronics. I started at 9 or 10, with several smaller electronics sets, building up to a Tandy 200-in-1 electronics set. I moved on to build many of the Dick Smith Electronics Fun Way 1 and 2 kits.
- The Signal Path: Still one of my favourite technical YouTube channels, run by engineer Shahriar Shahramian
- Bigclivedotcom: Big Clive is an electrician who loves to tear down everything from Christmas lights to hot water systems
- EEVBlog: Dave Jones is an Aussie EE who makes videos about electronics, test and measurement gear and debunking pseudo-scientific nonsense.
- Dick Smith Funway Volume 1: The way many Aussies including me got into electronics, thanks to Aussie legend and national treasure Dick Smith
- Dick Smith Funway Volume 2: What so many of us migrated to after building all the volume 1 kits. These projects were SO MUCH FUN!
Electronic Parts
- Digikey: A major US supplier and a favourite
- Element14: An oldie but a goodie, though I wish they were still Farnell here in Aus
- Mouser: My favourite electronics parts supplier
- RS Components: A shadow of its former self, but still good for the odd thing you can’t find elsewhere
- Altronics: A useful local supplier with average-quality parts but a broad range of stock, great staff and no BS.
Hi-Fi Equipment
- Audiogon: An online hi-fi marketplace
- StereoNet: An Australian hi-fi forum that aggregates news, discussion and sales of latest hi-fi gear
- AussieAudioMart: A strange-looking 1990s web throwback that looks like Alta Vista from when I first went online in 1994, but a place to find some really interesting hi-fi gear
- HiFi Shark: THE place for used hi-fi equipment listings and past sale prices