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Join me as I service a pristine, literally time-capsule-quality Sansui AU-8500 integrated amplifier. This one even blew me away! Welcome back, everyone and greetings to my Sansui readers and owners in particular, as this one is especially for you. George is the lucky owner of this piece and a long-term and very loyal Liquid Audio customer. We love George, and we love George’s Sansui AU-8500, for…

Join me as I complete a setup and major service on this beautiful SME Model 10 belt-drive turntable! My apologies for being ‘out of service’ for a little while, folks. I’ve been unwell at a particularly busy time of the year, and given how time- and energy-intensive articles are to create and how much time I lost, I needed a break while I caught up with customer work. The last article I wrote…

Join me as I discuss the restoration of this pair of beautiful Plinius Model 10 power amplifiers. Welcome back, folks, and I hope you are doing well! This article is about a job I completed back in 2019. I always planned on writing this article about this pair of absolutely stunning Plinius Model 10 power amplifiers, but you know how it is: you get busy, you keep working, and eventually you…

Join me as I repair one of my all-time favourite integrated amplifiers, a classic, made-in-England Audiolab 8000A. I’d first like to thank Steven for generously donating this old beauty, and a couple of other pieces, rather than sending them to recycling, as usually happens when they get to this point. This article is dedicated to Steven and others who’ve kindly and environmentally thoughtfully…

Join me as I repair one of my all-time favourite integrated amplifiers, a classic, made-in-England Audiolab 8000A. I’d first like to thank Steven for generously donating this old beauty and a couple of other pieces rather than sending them to recycling, as usually happens when they get to this point. This article is dedicated to Steven and others like him who’ve kindly and environmentally…

Join me as I repair and service this lovely VPI HW-19 Mark 3 belt drive turntable with SME IV tonearm! Welcome back to a shorter article today about this VPI HW-19 Mark 3 / SME IV tonearm combo. I promised the owner I would write this one up, and as it’s only from December 2025, it’s still fairly fresh in my mind. The destroyed receiver article is coming, BTW. We are just waiting for the…

Coming soon, a collaboration with my friend Jason @ The Speaker Doctor. You simply will not believe what we found inside this otherwise gorgeous, recently sold NAD 160a receiver… This receiver, complete with the bodgery of missing boards, broken wires and destroyed everything, was sold as: “Mint … in pristine condition … fully working.” In reality, this receiver is destroyed, in scrap…

Join me this time as I bring a beautiful Pioneer SA-8800 II integrated amplifier back to life! I should preface this article by noting that I’ve probably repaired a couple of dozen Pioneer SA-8xxx and SA-9xxx amplifiers over the last couple of years, including this stunning Pioneer SA-8900 II, and this SA-9800. The problem for me is that after a month or two, they are gone from my mind. The…

Join me as I service what I think is one of the most beautiful high-performance turntables of all time, the Yamaha GT-2000L. OK, so what is a Yamaha GT-2000L, I hear you ask. Well, it’s a regular near-30kg Yamaha GT-2000 direct drive turntable, a favourite I’ve written about many times, but with a light (maybe oak) real-wood veneer, as opposed to the classic black veneers we so commonly see from…

Join me this time as I bring this absolutely beautiful Esoteric P-2 CD transport back into service. Welcome back, everyone. Apologies for the delay in new articles, but I’ve been managing my energy and trying to stay ahead of the curve! I’m staying focused, getting through a ton of work and limiting the jobs I book. One of those is this absolutely beautiful, but somewhat challenging to work on,…

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope that the holiday period went well for you. I’ve been busy doing major workshop tidy-ups, specifically the main one I call workshop #2, and my original, internal workshop #1, which has been offline for several years due to the need for a major tidy-up. Details of this sort of thing can be found on my news page, but for those interested, here are a few more images…

Season’s greetings to all, join me for another annual recap, shall you?! Welcome to my 2025 recap. Yes, it’s that time of year again, no, I can’t believe it, and you’d better believe that Liquid Audio will close for a much-needed break over the festive season! If you have enquiries, best to leave them until we reopen. Liquid Audio will be closed from 20 December 2025 to 13 January…

Back by popular demand, more epic Sansui BA-5000 content! Buoyed by the success of my Technics SE-A100 video, which now has over 20,000 views and a 98% positive rating, I decided to release another longer-from video you might enjoy. I’ve just published a deep-dive video about the incredible Sansui BA-5000 power amplifier I repaired last year. The Sansui BA-5000 is certainly one of my favourite…

Join me as I repair and completely resurrect an incredible Technics SE-A100 power amplifier that had been to just about EVERY Perth repairer before me. This is quite a story, so grab a drink… Actually, I probably need a drink after how long this article has taken to put together. That’s right, folks, I’m following up on my 2021 teaser about repairing this absolute beast and my promise to write…

Join me as we repair and service a gorgeous Kenwood KP-990 / KD-990 direct drive turntable. The Kenwood KP-990, also known as the Kenwood KD-990 in many markets, is almost the last serious turntable Kenwood made. This is sad, but a reflection of the arrival of CD, which, for many, spelled the end of vinyl. It ultimately wasn’t, of course, but it certainly was for a while. Anyway, Kenwood did a…

Join me as we look at another great and affordable vintage vinyl spinner, the Sony PS-22 direct drive turntable! You’ve got Liquid Mike in low power mode today, but that won’t stop me from writing an article about this lovely Sony PS-22 direct drive turntable I’ve just repaired. I’m a few kg and some energy and cash lighter than this time last week, recovering from the worst gastroenteritis I…

It’s turntable time again, so let’s look at the classic Denon DP-30L direct drive turntable for the first time in 8 years! Welcome back, everyone, as we take a brief and probably overdue look at another of my favourite turntables, the venerable Denon DP-30L. I last wrote about the Denon DP-30L back in 2017. Given that the equipment I’ve worked on recently is the easiest for me to write about,…