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Welcome to the Liquid Audio store, where the attention to detail we’re famous for means you can purchase with confidence from a specialist with a reputation for excellence.

UPDATED 26 July 2024, new stuff is here, more is coming!

• Every piece has been inspected, tested, cleaned, repaired and/or serviced, as required
• Most pieces come with a three-month warranty, generally excluding CD players
• Local sales are preferred but packing and insured shipping are available in some cases via our shipping partner Pack & Send

If you’ve seen something elsewhere on the site that doesn’t appear here in the store, you’ll find it in our sold equipment galleries 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Note that all sales are final and refunds due to a change of mind are generally not possible. Items can be reserved with a 20% non-refundable deposit. See our terms for more and if you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

Store Categories

• Advisory Services
• Amplifiers & Preamplifiers
• Cassette Decks
• CD Players & DACs
• Miscellaneous
• Receivers
• Speakers
• Tuners
• Turntables
• Clearance Corner
• Previously Sold Equipment

Advice & Guidance

Liquid Audio’s advisory service delivers expertise and insight from a specialist’s perspective. We’re here to protect you from pseudoscience, marketing BS and the pressure to buy new and often inferior equipment and can assist with:

• Vintage/classic hi-fi stereo equipment recommendations and sourcing
• Amplifier, CD player, turntable improvement, upgrades
• System assessment, building and synergy
• Tonearms, cartridges, vinyl accessories, turntable sourcing and building
• Model comparisons, compatibility and recommendations, and more!

Advice bites come in 10 and 20-minute lengths:

Consults are available in 30 and 60-minute lengths and are ideal for in-depth discussions:

To access our advisory service, simply purchase some time and submit your questions via the contact form.

Amplifiers & Preamplifiers

Gorgeous Overhauled Accuphase P-360 Power Amplifier

UPDATE: Offers received within an hour of listing and SOLD, for considerably more than the asking price!

As you might have noticed if you’ve been following along, I’ve just purchased something a little bit silly and long overdue. For that reason, I have to move some pieces on and this time it’s my current amplifier reference, my just overhauled Accuphase P-360 power amplifier.

Features

The Accuphase P-30 is a classic class AB bipolar power amplifier, conservatively rated at 200 Watts per channel and boasting some nice features not often seen in premium equipment like this. These include a dedicated headphone amplifier, stepped attenuators, fully balanced and single-ended operation and of course those big, beautiful moving coil power meters.

The P-360 is a more recent design than the P-500 and P-300 series models you see quite a lot of here in Aus, and better too in my opinion. She features the coveted gold power button, indicating that it was part of Accuphases newer, higher-quality tier of equipment. She also features the classic persimmon wood side panels, and they’re perfect by the way!

Top tip for those wanting a super-system: You can bridge these amplifiers so that, if you get a second one, you’ll have 600 Watts per channel and even more authority and grip over any speaker you can connect to them. Madness!

I imported this P-360 last year and have been using and enjoying it immensely since deeply overhauling her immediately after purchase. This thing is a powerhouse, packing a punch and if you read Accuphase’s datasheets, you’ll see that the 200-Watt rating is very conservative. She’ll crank out around 250 Watts per channel before any significant distortion creeps in, but that’s Accuphase for you. They guarantee 200. Cool. I love this approach.

You can read more about the Accuphase P-360 in the product brochure.

Accuphase P-360 Specifications

Courtesy of HiFi Engine

Power output: 200 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo), 600 watts into 8Ω (mono)

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz

Total harmonic distortion: 0.02%

Damping factor: 300

Gain: 28 dB

Input sensitivity: 1.59V

Signal-to-noise ratio: 120dB

Speaker load impedance: 2Ω to 16Ω

Semiconductors: 10 x IC, 32 x FET, 63 x transistors, 77 x diodes

Dimensions: 475 x 180 x 413mm

Weight: 27.4kg

Year: 1991

Overhaul

I should note that this completely factory-original Accuphase P-360 worked perfectly but sounded dull. She was very dusty and needed a deep clean and some TLC at 30+ years of age. As it turned out and based on some of the parts I tested upon removal, this was a timely overhaul too, because some of the smaller electrolytic capacitors were totally dead.

I replaced all small board-mounted electrolytic capacitors in both amplifier modules and most on the front panel board, added a couple of performance enhancing parts, deep cleaned/washed everything, removed and detailed the front panel and meters, and made all the electronic adjustments. She now looks and sounds a million bucks.

Check the article for all these details!

She is For Sale!

This meticulous and quite involved overhaul includes nearly day of labour, plus parts, a little under $1500 worth of work if I were charging for it. If you followed along, you’ll see why jobs like this do usually take the best part of a day. I know that this attention to detail is rare but it’s worth it with equipment of this calibre and where people simply care about those details, and the results.

Owners often neglect to have overhaul work like this done though, because it costs money and finding people who will really care for your equipment can be hard. Someone with a clue has to do the work, no escaping that, and that will never cost a couple of hundred bucks, as less diligent folks might suggest. If someone tells you this RUN! At least it doesn’t need to be done again for perhaps another 20 or 30 years!

Sonically, the work transformed this P-360, also noted by friends who heard her before and after. She looks and smells a lot cleaner, too. She sounded much sweeter and more open and lively after overhaul, and the particularly muscular bass this model displays is now even more pronounced. If you love bass texture and detail, you’ll absolutely love this amplifier. Sound staging, resolution and timbre are also fantastic, as you would expect.

A pre/power amplifier combo is the only way to go if you are looking to seriously improve your systems performance and currently use an integrated amplifier. This Accuphase P-360, partnered up with say a C-270 will obliterate any integrated amplifiers I’ve heard, including Accuphase models. There are simply too many compromises in an integrated, mostly related to space and packaging.

As mentioned, I reluctantly need to move her on to make way for my next amplifier, arriving in a couple of days. This end-game piece is another Accuphase model, and details are coming, so stay tuned for that. I will be acquiring more equipment to work on, document and sell as it builds my experience base and makes for great content, so stay tuned for more of this sort of thing.

Accuphase P-360s is a premium, compact power amplifier capable of driving any speaker and sells for around $3,000 – $4,000 AUD, when you can find one, and 3,000 – 4000 Euro in Europe where they are more common. These are typically un-overhauled prices. This unit has been converted to 240V operation and comprehensively overhauled and serviced only a few months ago.

I’m offering this Accuphase P-360 for $4,250. That price includes a 3-month warranty, try getting that on another P-360. If you find a better or fairer deal, please let me know. If you’d like it, I’d love to sell it to you, preferably to someone who is already a customer so we can keep her in the family!

As often happens with the equipment I sell, I’ve had some interest prior to listing her, so if you’d like her, let me know as soon as you can. I’ll respect the order in which I receive enquiries, so don’t stress. There is never any pressure to purchase and I always look after people in terms of the order in which they contact me. Local sale preferred.

UPDATE: SOLD, pending payment, for considerably more than the asking price. Thank you to her generous new owner and long term customer!

Luxman L-205 Integrated Amplifier

Check out this little beauty, kindly donated by Vlad and ready for a new home!

I’ve just completed a service and detail of this great little integrated amplifier and can highly recommend it for a smaller systems, second system or first proper system for a youngster.

Luxman L-205 Specifications

Power output: 40 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo)

Frequency response: 10Hz to 100kHz

Total harmonic distortion: 0.02%

Input sensitivity: 1.8mV (MM), 160mV (line)

Signal to noise ratio: 90dB (MM), 107dB (line)

Dimensions: 453 x 317 x 111mm

Weight: 5.4kg

This lovely little Luxman L-205 integrated amplifier can be yours for just $395. Or, you can pay more for Chinese rubbish with no pedigree, Bluetooth and guaranteed to fail within 3 years!

Cassette Decks

Nothing currently available

CD Players & DACs

Stunning Sony CDP-X7ESD CD Player

Well friends, the time has come again for me to cull some more of my favourite pieces from my collection, and this time it’s my reference CD player for the last few years, my much-loved Sony CDP-X7ESD.

UPDATE: Sold, within an hour of listing, thanks George!

Many of you will know how much I love these players that were the top of the line for Sony back in 1989 when they still made serious equipment like this. I’ve written about them here for example and worked on many over the years, including the beauty you see here, which I recently serviced and runs perfectly.

Now, if you’re wondering why I’m selling pieces like this wonderful CD player, that’s easy to answer. This is why:

Sony CDP-X7ESD Specifications

Courtesy of HiFi Engine

• Disc format: CD
• Digital converter: PCM58P-S
• CD Mechanism: KSS-190A
• Frequency response: 2Hz to 20kHz
• Dynamic range: 100dB
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 115dB
• Channel separation: 110dB
• Total harmonic distortion: 0.0015%
• Line output: 2V
• Digital connections: coaxial, optical
• Dimensions: 470 x 125 x 375mm
• Weight: 17kg
• Accessories: remote control
• Year: 1989

The Sony CDP-X7ESD uses the legendary and incredibly long lived Sony KSS-190A almost all metal mech and glass optic laser, same as used in the sublime Accuphase DP-81L for example:

My personal Sony CDP-X7ESD has been very well cared for as you’d expect of anything I own. I’ve serviced this player, it has new drive belts, everything is clean, serviced etc.

This player is in almost perfect condition, with no dings or damage to the wooden side panels. She has a few light scratches on the top surface, to be expected at this age 35 years old. In most lighting conditions these cannot be seen.

The CDP-X7ESD has single-ended and balanced outputs, plus digital outs for use with a DAC. The balanced outs sounds wonderful, smooth and warm as you’d expect of a player of this calibre. Those wanting the very best performance however might consider using her with a really good external DAC, like my Gustard A-26, Accuphase DC-91, Denafrips Pontus 2, etc.

Keep an eye out also for my Gustard A-26 DAC, an absolute stunner in sonic terms, easily the best stand-alone DAC I’d owned until my DC-91, also available in the store. Naturally, both of these sound better when powered by my IsoTek EVO3 Genesis One Mains Power Conditioner/Regenerator, also available here in the store.

This absolutely gorgeous, copper plated and near entirely metal CD player is a real beauty and is of course built like almost nothing else these days anyway. She comes with a factory remote, recently serviced and can be yours for $2,500 AUD. I’ve had a lot of interest prior to listing this player, so if you’d like it, get in touch as soon as you are able.

UPDATE: Sold!

Gustard A-26 Dual AK4499EX Digital to Analog Convertor (DAC)

It’s not often that I get excited about Chinese hifi gear folks but this is certainly an exception. Those who follow modern DAC production will know that there are a ton of interesting products out there, but very few pique my interest enough to make me want to buy one.

UPDATE: Sold, within an hour of listing!

This unit was purchased new, by me, about 1 year ago and has been used an enjoyed. The A-26 is easily the best standalone DAC Ive used in my system until purchasing my current reference, the Accuphase DC-91.

This Gustard A-26 has epic, deep bass, super beguiling mids and a lovely airy top end, incredible really for the $2,500 AUD retail price. You can read much more about the A-26 on the Gustard website. This thing uses dual AKM4499EX DAC chips, some of the absolute best sounding chips ever made. It has a high precision internal clock and the ability to input a precision external reference 10MHz clock signal. It will handle DSD, MQA, PCM to 768kHz, etc, etc, etc. Certainly a state of the art DAC for a very reasonable price.

Suffice it to say this is a serious and a beautiful sounding DAC and heavy hitter. Again, I’m only selling because I have another much more expensive DAC and I need to move equipment on rather than collect it. From personal experience here, this DAC crushes many others, and I mean MANY!

They love it over at Audio Science Review too and if you love measurements almost more than listening to equipment, that might make you very happy! Seriously though, Amir does an excellent job documenting the important measurements that so few others capture, important work, no question.

I’m selling this lightly used example with remote and power cable for just $1600. I promise that if I can find any of the cheap digital cables it came with I’ll include them, but you’ll want decent cables with this thing.

UPDATE: Sold!

Miscellaneous

IsoTek EVO3 Genesis One Mains Power Conditioner/Regenerator

Check out this one owner IsoTek EVO3 Genesis One mains power conditioner, lightly used and in perfect condition! Which one owner you may ask..? Me! I bought it new around 5 years ago and have used it since, with zero issues and some nice sonic improvements for connected gear.

A customer asked me what I thought about these and why I’m selling it. Easy. It’s great, but I need the space and the funds. I’ve just bought a very expensive Accuphase power amplifier, amongst other things, and so a bunch of stuff like this IsoTek mains regenerator must be sold.

In terms of what it does for the sound, it’s a really interesting question. When I first bought this regenerator, I plugged my sources to it and immediately noticed a lower noise floor and slightly more relaxed sonic presentation from the entire system. I thought this was an interesting and certainly valuable improvement.

If you’ve been thinking of getting one of these, I’d have no hesitation in recommending you do. Almost more importantly, it safeguards your valuable equipment from power surges and spikes too.

These highly regarded mains power regenerators are the best way to power a source or other low power devices, far better than a ‘filter’. The Genesis One is a 100 Watt mains voltage regenerator perfect for things like CD players, DACs, preamps, tuners etc. As long as the total power consumption stays under 100 Watts, you are cooking with gas.

Quite different from the common and much cheaper passive filters which you see in all the stores, this is an active device – a power supply – a far better way to power your sources. The Genesis One delivers a rock steady, regulated 230VAC mains supply with less than 1% distortion. This feeds your sources with the purest, lowest distortion mains supply possible, much cleaner than power straight from the wall.

Contrast this with a filter, a fancy power board with built-in chokes for example, that only reduces line noise. These filters don’t regulate line voltage, nor do they completely regenerate a completely clean and steady 230V sine wave as the Isotek Evo3 Genesis One does.

Here’s some additional info from Isotek:

The EVO3 Genesis One is a state of the art single cell sine wave generation system with extremely low THD. The system can be used to dramatically improve single front-end components. Each cell can be combined / linked together so that only one input wall socket cable is required. 

• Removes both Common Mode and Differential Mode mains noise.
• Dedicated single outlet delivers totally clean low distortion reconstruction mains sine wave.
• Unique single cell mains sine wave generation system exceeding 85dB of noise reduction extending to zero Hz running in class D amplification with a linear power supply.
• Internal wiring; solid core silver plated PCOCC with FEP virtually an air dielectric.
• 100W of totally clean power for all front-end components.

More information about this award winning product can be found here.

These beautiful 10kg IsoTek EVO3 Genesis One (try saying that a few times…) mains power conditioner/regenerators are a current IsoTek product line and retail for $4,749.

Here’s a chance to own this perfect, one-owner example for just $2,500.

Local customers preferred.

NOS Raytheon JAN 5703WB ‘Trivistor’ Vacuum Tubes

Many will have seen my articles and videos on the iconic Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21 Tube DAC. If you need a set of 5703WB vacuum tubes for yours, look no further.

I have 50+ – now approx 30  Raytheon 5703WB vacuum tubes available for sale, all from the same production batch. This is the mil-spec, 50+G-rated triode tube used in the class-A output buffer of the Tri-Vista 21, Tri-Vista SACD Player, the Tri-Vista 300 Integrated Amplifier and others.

This batch of NOS Joint Arm Navy Raytheon 5703W tubes was made in December 1979 and is a rare find. Good examples like these rarely come up for sale. Many I’ve seen are later examples, in tatty boxes, sometimes even used. Remember, with NOS tubes, the older the better, generally speaking.

Grab a pristine NOS set for your Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21 or other projects whilst these early-date code units are available. Keep them tucked away for when you need them – if you own equipment that uses them, you will eventually need to replace them.

All boxes are intact and present in excellent to perfect condition. All tubes are NOS, never used, and in perfect condition. Priced at just $25 AUD per tube.

Receivers

Super-Cool JVC JR-S301 AM/FM Stereo Receiver

Just look at this classic vintage beauty! Only just in and needing service and a minor repair, this lovely one-owner JVC AM/FM stereo receiver has 60 Watts per channel, VU and tuning meters, four in total, a graphic equaliser and phono preamplifier built in. What more could you want in a vintage receiver?!

This receiver is just gorgeous and quite a rare offering, given that JVC had a slightly lower profile here in Australia. After giving her a deep clean and service, and making a small repair to the tuning mechanism, she works perfectly, and has that rich, warm sound we expect from equipment like this.

Description and specs, courtesy of HiFi Engine.

Description

The JR-S301 is big enough to fill the average to large listening room with the wall to wall sound of the musical truth.

JVC’s new DC amplifier design delivers an output of 60 watts per channel in this, the medium priced number of our latest line up.

The JR-S301 shares most of the features available on the more costly models, including DC power amplifier, precision preamplifier, advanced tuner, SEA graphic equalizer and more.

Specifications

Tuning range: FM, MW

Power output: 60 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo)

Frequency response: 5Hz to 40kHz

Total harmonic distortion: 0.008%

Damping factor: 70

Input sensitivity: 2.5mV (MM), 190mV (line)

Signal to noise ratio: 75dB (MM), 95dB (line)

Output: 190mV (line), 30mV (DIN)

Speaker load impedance: 4Ω to 16Ω

Dimensions: 166 x 500 x 378mm

Weight: 12.4kg

Year: 1978

This lovely JVC JR-S301 stereo receiver can be yours for just $999.

Lovely Rotel RX-202 Mk2 AM/FM Stereo Receiver

Just in and just repaired by yours truly, this lovely Rotel RX-202 Mk2 receiver is ready for a new home. This all-analog receiver has the AM/FM tuner, a phono preamp, and several line-level inputs for your listening convenience.

I’ve just replaced the fuses and power supply capacitors with uprated parts and this old girl is quiet as a mouse and running beautifully! This lovely vintage Rotel receiver is priced at just $250.

Lovely Marantz SR-73 Stereo/Surround Receiver

Yes, we have another affordable and cute little receiver for sale, this one a pristine Marantz SR-73 receiver, with manual and loop antenna. This one-owner unit is perfect for a second system or someone’s first!

This little beauty is also just $195.

Speakers

Ultra-Rare Pair of Genuine, NOS Yamaha NS-1200 / JA3120 Woofer Re-Cone Kits!

Genuine parts like these never, EVER come up and this is likely the only pair of genuine Yamaha NS-1200 JA3120 woofer re-cone kits available IN THE WORLD! Given that I don’t own NS1200s, I need to move these re-cone kits on to someone who does.

This pair of re-cone kits will repair and renew the cones, spiders, voice coils and surrounds of JA3120 woofers. If you own NS-1200s and want to re-cone your JA3120 woofers, the only way to do it is with genuine parts like these. When professionally installed, it’s basically like having a new driver. The woofers cannot retain their original Theile-Small characteristics unless you use genuine parts, meaning they will never sound the same unless genuine parts are used.

These genuine Yamaha re-cone kits come in their factory original boxes and include cones, surrounds, voice coils, spiders and braids. The boxes retain their original foam support material, meaning shipping should be safe, though insurance is a must on something like this.

This is a set of two genuine Yamaha re-cone kits, in original factory packaging, and perfect, original condition. They have never been used, so voice coils and everything else are perfect. There will likely never be another pair of these for sale, so if you own a pair of Yamaha NS-1200s and want to refresh the woofers, or if you have JA3120 woofers that need repair, this is perhaps your last chance to do it properly.

The price for these otherwise unobtainable re-cone kits is $1000 AUD for the pair, plus shipping and insurance where applicable. These are NOS parts, in perfect, factory original condition.

NOTE: I’ve had requests for dimensions, DCR measurements, etc. This is like asking for the dimensions of a 195/65R15 tyre. If you own NS-1200s and need JA3120 re-cone kits, these are the correct, original Yamaha parts. Simply purchase them if the price works for you and if not, no problem.

Get in touch if you have any questions about purchasing this pair of re-cone kits!

Tuners

Nothing currently available

Turntables & Vinyl

Dual 1225 Turntable, For Parts or Project!

Check out this lovely old Dual 1225 idler drive turntable. Everything is there but sold for parts or projects with cables cut.

This Dual 1225 is perfect for setting up in a new plinth or for parts if you own a Dual idler drive deck already. $100

Lovely Aurealis R3 Tonearm Cable, Made in Oz!

Check out this nice little tonearm cable, from Australian cable manufacturer Aurealis. This lovely cable is 0.75m in length and features premium ETI hollow pin RCA connectors and LITZ UPOCC cable.

This is a $400 RRP cable, details available here.

This one is like new and is available for just $275.

Clearance Corner

Welcome to our clearance corner, where you’ll find equipment needing a little TLC. This might be perfect for your next project, hard-to-find spare parts like knobs, fascias etc, or things like boards, modules and assemblies. I would keep these pieces if I had the room, but I don’t, so they have to go.

Equipment in our clearance corner:

• Needs work and is partly or non-functional
• Is sold as-is, grab-and-go
• Make me an offer!

Arcam Alpha 9 Integrated Amplifier

Sold for parts or projects, one intact but non-functional Arcam Alpha 9 integrated amplifier. $100

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