High End Audio Coming to Pubs and Bars

[twk123]

Very interesting article and gives a good shoutout to the mighty K-Horn. If you have a pub called "Brilliant Corners" there is really only one speaker you can put in there. I have seen the market go this way for a while and its a cool way for the industry to go as well as bridge the generation gap to a younger audience who is stuck with bose boxes and beats headphones. Especially when they realize how much Klipsch gear you can get for the price of plastic Beats headphones and an iPhone.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/07/spiritland-brilliant-corners-london-audiophile-bars

 

 

Sonic boom: why clubs are cranking up the quality instead of the volume

 

 

Outside a former kitchen on an east London street called, perhaps fittingly, Club Row, there’s a chalkboard advertising “COFFEE, EGGS & BLOODY GOOD SPEAKERS”. You might pass it by thinking it was just another bit of café-culture whimsy, but this is more than an eatery and lounge with challenging music in the background. This is Sonos Studio, which provides an extraordinary set of sonic experiences in a cafe and lounge space that is designed to be as acoustically perfect as a high-end recording studio.

This is far from the only place to have opened in recent times where the quality of the loudspeakers is a selling point.

 

The monumental Spiritland soundsystem has brought billionaire-level hi-fi to London restaurant-bars and will move to a dedicated home in spring. Tucked away among the hustle and grot of the east London district of Dalston is Brilliant Corners, an initially unassuming little bar owned by brothers Amit and Aneesh Patel, where jazz, disco and electronic music can be heard over the kind of huge Klipschorn speakers that make sound enthusiasts and club historians go weak at the knees. For a couple of months last autumn, avant-garde music magazine the Wire set up a listening room in collaboration with Vitsoe furniture: an oasis of obscure Japanese music, groovy art books, Dieter Rams chairs and shelves, and beautiful loudspeakers.

 

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[jbevins]

Public at large doesn't care much about sound Q. Attended a car show recently and they had a thousand watts of the most distorted sound you can get and still be called sound. No one noticed, said anything, complained. Big truck from a commercial PA company and the guy is just sitting there at the controls. I was gonna say something......ah what's the point? I had to steer clear of the speakers.