The audiophile AI that knows your system.
Straight answers on stereo and home theater. Ask about a speaker, a turntable, an integrated amp, an A/V receiver, a DAC, a streamer, or the room any of it sits in, and it answers with what to check and in what order, the way a tech at the bench would walk through it.
Ask the box, no account needed See the plans
- Trial
- 3 questions in any rolling 5 hours, counted against your browser. Nothing to sign up for.
- Knowledge base
- About 19,800 passages of repair and setup knowledge, checked before every answer.
- Plans
- Pro is $9.00 USD a month and Studio is $19.00, plus tax, monthly or by the year, and the first 14 days are refundable.
Reading your question.
- Crackle that moves with the volume knob is almost always the control itself, not the amplifier. The wipers oxidize, and the noise rides every turn.
- Unplug it first. Then work the control through its full travel a few dozen times. That alone clears light oxidation.
- If the noise survives that, work a contact cleaner made for controls into the travel and let it dry before the next power-up.
- In order: exercise the control, clean it, and only then replace it. Stop after each step and listen again.
From the repair knowledge base
What you can ask it
Why a tube amp hums, and whether the filter capacitors are the reason.
Where two subwoofers go in a rectangular room, and why.
Whether an older receiver is worth repairing or worth replacing.
What a DAC changes, and when adding one is worth the money.
It answers for the system you own
Put your gear and your room into Your system, in the app's sidebar, and everything after that is asked about your rack, in your room.
- Your models, named. A question about a Marantz 2270 is answered from the passage about a Marantz 2270, not from a generic receiver essay.
- Your room's real distances. Placement answers come back against your room's dimensions and your listening seat, not against an average living room.
- Fewer guesses. When the knowledge base does not cover your exact combination, the answer says so instead of rounding to the nearest guess.
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
You can, and it will answer. What it will not do is answer as a box that already knows your system. That difference is not a feature on a list somewhere. It is four facts about how the two are built.
- It has never met your system
- A general chatbot starts from zero: it does not know what is on your rack until you describe it, and its answer is written for the class of gear, not yours. Here the system is entered once, and every answer is written against the components on it. What you have not entered, the box does not pretend you own.
- It does not know what you play
- Recommendation questions are taste questions. Say the house plays jazz and blues and the answer changes: what to look for used, what a new cartridge will do to the sound, what is worth owning at all. Here the genres you pick ride along with every question, kept on the free tier too. A general model answers for an average listener, because that is all it knows.
- The terms are its first language
- Phono stage, azimuth, subwoofer crossover, wattage into 4 ohms. A general model knows the dictionary definitions. This box is built on a corpus of real repairs and listening-room questions, so the vocabulary arrives with the meaning it has on a bench, and the answer uses it the way a tech would say it.
- Nothing here but audio
- A general assistant drafts emails, plans trips and answers everything, which is why its audio answer reads like everything else. This box does one subject. Ask it about flights and it says that is not what it is for, instead of improvising an opinion about an airplane.
One thing the two share: both generate their answers, and both can be wrong. What differs is what the answers are built on, not a guarantee. Check anything a repair turns on. The box itself will tell you the same.
Why not just ask around online?
Post the same question to the usual places and see. The first reply asks whether you searched before posting. The second decides your receiver is not worth fixing. The third starts an argument about speaker cable that runs forty replies deep. The one person who knows your model may answer tomorrow, or never.
- Nobody is new here
- Being new is the tax those places charge: your question gets "search first", your gear gets called not worth owning. Here every question gets a real attempt, the terms are explained in the same breath they are used, and no answer opens with what you should have done already.
- It answers like someone who fixes things
- Forty years at a bench leaves opinions, and the answers have them: which of two receivers it would buy, which upgrades are mostly marketing, what to check first on your model and why. When it is guessing, it says so, the way a good tech does.
- The answer arrives tonight
- Ask at eleven at night and the answer comes back that night, with the next steps in the order to try them. Not a day later when the one person who knows drifts past, and not a reply that is really an argument with somebody else.
- It remembers your rack
- There, you retype your system in every post and start from zero every time. Here the rack you entered once sits inside every answer, and the follow-up buttons under each answer are built from the answer you just got.
One honest note: the people in those places are real, and the best of them are worth finding. What this box replaces is the gatekeeping and the wait, not the company. Like them, it can be wrong, so check anything a repair turns on.
Plans
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Try it, no account
Free
3 questions in any rolling 5 hours, counted against your browser. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to install.
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Free account
Free
10 questions in any rolling 24 hours, on every device you sign in from. One email, and a password of 10 characters or more.
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Pro
$9.00 USD a month, or $90.00 a year, plus tax
150 questions in any rolling 24 hours, plus 5 a day on the strongest model (Pro). Billed monthly or yearly in advance, renews until you cancel, and the first 14 days are refundable. There is no contract, and the card is handled by Stripe.
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Studio
$19.00 USD a month, or $190.00 a year, plus tax
300 questions in any rolling 24 hours, plus 20 a day on the strongest model (Pro). Billed monthly or yearly in advance, renews until you cancel, and the first 14 days are refundable. There is no contract, and the card is handled by Stripe.
Start free, upgrade inside
The counter rolls rather than resets: each question drops off the count that many hours after you asked it, one at a time, so a quiet morning gives the questions back.
The complete terms of each tier are in the terms of service. Cancelling and refunds are in refunds and cancellation.
How an answer is built
01 · Retrieval
It searches a repair knowledge base first: about 19,800 passages, plus a smaller set of researched rows that each carry a cause, a fix, and a confidence label.
02 · Grounding
The answer is written from what it found, so a question about your exact gear gets the passage about that gear rather than a generic essay. What you own, from Your system, comes first.
03 · The answer
Plain words, in order: what to check first, and what to do next. A question outside stereo and home theater is refused outright, and when the knowledge base does not cover something the answer says so.
- Answers come from
- A repair knowledge base of about 19,800 passages, plus researched rows that each carry a cause, a fix, and a confidence label.
- Written by
- A language model run by DeepSeek. The text of your question reaches it, because that is what answering requires.
- Out of scope
- A question outside stereo and home theater is refused outright, and an answer the knowledge base cannot support says so instead of guessing.
- Your gear and room
- Held in Your system, in the app's sidebar, so an answer is written for the equipment you actually own.
- What is kept
- An account keeps your email address and your question counts. No transcript of what you asked is stored anywhere.
- The card
- Handled by Stripe. The service never sees the number.
What happens to your questions
- A conversation stays in your browser. Clearing site data clears it.
- The service keeps no transcript of what you asked. An account keeps your email address and your question counts, and that is the whole of it.
- The model that writes the answers is run by DeepSeek, and the text of a question reaches it, because that is what answering requires.
The full detail, including the one place the first 120 characters of a question can land in a log, is in the privacy policy.
Questions people ask
What is AudiophileGPT?
A bench-tech AI for stereo and home theater. Ask about a speaker, a turntable, an amp, a receiver, a DAC, a streamer, or the room, and the answer walks through what to check and in what order.
What does it cost?
The app answers 3 questions in any rolling 5 hours with no account. A free account raises that to 10 questions in any rolling 24 hours. Pro is $9.00 a month or $90.00 a year plus tax for 150 questions in any rolling 24 hours, Studio is $19.00 a month or $190.00 a year for 300, and the first 14 days are refundable.
What is the best AI for audiophiles?
The honest test is not who talks the smoothest, it is who knows what is actually on your rack and admits what it does not know. AudiophileGPT is built to pass both halves: it answers from your own gear list and a repair knowledge base, and it refuses questions outside stereo and home theater outright rather than improvising.
Can AI help me set up my hi-fi system?
For the parts that are answerable, yes: speaker placement for your room, whether two components are a sensible pairing, and what an upgrade will and will not change. Ask it with your actual gear on the table, and be suspicious of any AI that quotes specifications for equipment nobody told it you own.
Is there an AI for vintage audio repair?
That is this one. AudiophileGPT answers from a repair knowledge base where every row carries a cause, a fix and a confidence label, and it publishes free model-specific guides, starting with the receivers and decks a bench sees most.
Does it answer for my exact equipment?
Answers come from a repair knowledge base of about 19,800 passages, and the Your system panel in the app holds the gear and room you own, so the answer is written for your setup rather than an average living room.
Does it keep my conversations?
No. A conversation stays in your browser, and clearing site data clears it. The service keeps no transcript; an account keeps your email address and your question counts. The text of a question reaches the model that writes the answer, which is run by DeepSeek, because that is what answering requires.
Who is behind it?
Tomasetti Tech LLC, Longmont, Colorado. Questions about the service go to support@audiophilegpt.com.
Ask it something from your own rack.
Three questions right now with no account. Ten a day on a free account, and one email to make it. Pro is $9.00 USD a month and Studio is $19.00, plus tax, monthly or by the year, when you want the longer count, and the first 14 days are refundable.