World’s Best Sound at Korea's Hidden Music Bar - ENDGAME Story of an Audiophile
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2023
- Bruno's Music Listening Bar in Korea is THE PLACE to visit in Korean that features Horn speaker system of 1937 By RCA that rivals Western Electric Speakers. The RCA Photophone Speakers are no ordinary High-End Audiophile Speakers. Made initially for a theatre system, it has made many laugh and cry over the years and is guaranteed to do the same for you even after decades.
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*This video is brought you by music lovers like yourselves. (**Patreon.com/jayiyagi)* Thank you for stopping by to follow my audiophile journey and Bruno’s story. For more on his tube amplifiers including pricing, please contact him directly!
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The link is no good Jay. Also, would love to do a video with you. Huge Fan.
It’s nice to see people who make amazing things for the passion of it, rather than for profit.
RCA stands for Radio Corporation of America
FYI for the new generation.
Jay when I read RCA Speakers in your title I doubted it was the RCA I’ve known, the company I worked for from 1969 to 1999. But when you showed it’s location, Camden NJ, then I knew it’s the same company established in 1919 by David Sarnoff.
RCA was the most trusted name in Electronics back in the days past. It started as a telephone/telegraph company and branched to TV manufacturing, TV broadcasting (NBC), electronic component manufacturing including vacuum tubes etc. I did not know that they manufactured loudspeaker let alone the likes of Altec Lansing’s Voice of the Theater.
The RCA brand is now relatively unknown. It changed ownership several times including GE, MCI, WorldCom etc.
But I still see the name often in high end audio, the RCA audio cables. I bet not many audiophiles know what RCA stands for. I ❤ RCA! It shaped my career of 40 years in telecommunications.
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Great story Jay, please do more stories like this on your channel when possible. Great listening bars around the world that we need to support.
Those are RCA versions of the Shearer Horn system developed in the 1930s at MGM by project manager John Hilliard. Hilliard was the guy who discovered time delay distortion during the famous Eleanor Powell double tap incident in which the long source distance between the lower and upper horns of a WE monitor caused single taps of tap dancing to be reproduced as double taps. Hilliard wanted a movie theater speaker that eliminated that and when WE showed no interest Doug Shearer, head of the MGM sound department, told Hilliard to develop a speaker. Involved in the project were Bob Stephens, James Lansing and Harry Olson. Hilliard went on to become the head engineer at Altec where he designed the VOTs as an improvement on the Shearer system. I see at least one JBL compression driver in the system in the video, a driver not original to RCA shearer systems. Note though that RCA used a JBL compression driver in their LC9 monitor of the 1950s.
Amazing passion! Thanks for sharing this Jay. I never knew about RCA, or Western Electric speakers, nor would I associate them with anything approaching the level of audiophile. I'm loving this kind of content; Bruno's passion for music leading him on a vision quest to create the perfect system, even going so far as to manufacture his own Amps! Great story.
Do more like this!🥰
right on man
Thanks, Jay. This is so totally up my alley. Some absolutely beautiful gear. That’s the type of stuff that makes me shed a tear too. Those BRUNOCO amps look great. I’d love to hear one. I know you’re in Korea, but when I was in Japan about 10 yrs ago, I went to a “HiFi bar” with some of the most amazing gear and sound I’d ever seen and heard. Again, thank you, Jay. ✌️ 🔊😊🎶
This is what true passion looks like! Very inspiring. I’m looking forward to seeing more videos in this series.
I heard large Western Electric speaker installations at the Munich High End Audio expo several times now. Each time I was amazed by the sound quality of these speakers made in the 20s and 30s. They easily beat anything made today. Any listening thereafter at the show was a dissapointment. The sound is huge and totally captivating. Singers and instruments stand out and have real body and tonal quality is superb. Those demos were organized and paid for by a Korean fellow who also makes his own electronics. But I don't recall his name or brand.
Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Completely flashed. After seeing that, you have to take a deep deep breath. So nice from you, to give us these 15 seconds to complentate and meditate at the end of this hillarious video by showing just a dark screen.
I have to visit Brunos Bar in Seoul at some point during my livetime!
Great video. I know my system is working when it causes involuntary emotional response on some tracks. There is something in the sound that elicits a human response. Wonderful.
You exposed Bruno's journey in a way that connects. Well done.
Jay, this was one of the most amazing videos you’ve done yet!
Thanks for sharing your passion and inspiration with us and introducing us to others with this amazing passion and knowledge!
Would love too see more like this!
This is great. I love this guys passion for vintage audio and for sharing the sound with people. Love it
What an amazing video! The content and production quality are out of this world. Thank you for this beautiful gem.
What a fascinating vid Jay. Love the travel element woven in and hope you can do more if you are abroad again. Well done sir!
He designed and built his own amplifiers and transformers, the man is a genius.
This was awesome man! very refreshing and engaging video! Beautiful how everything came along naturally for Bruno ! This is true passion indeed! thx for sharing
Awesome Jay. Your best work yet. Loved it.
Wow this is just awesome. Thanks for doing this,it is so good. I could watch more of this for sure.
This is awesome. Thank you for showing us this stuff.
Absolutely love this! Please bring us more episodes like this! Nobody else does!
Best vid you have done so far,,please do more of these J
another great one, good for you!
If you ever get the opportunity to listen to a large MEH (multiple entry horn) aka synergy horn you’ll be blown away. Having a large speaker that is so coherent is a game changer in a normal sized room
I used to work for a commercial AV contractor and we often would install the Danley synergy horns and subs and I have heard them and I can confirm they will blow you away! They have SO much clarity, and pattern control, which is super important for certain environments. And yet, I think these RCAs still have something about them that would sound better. I haven't heard them yet though.
Really enjoying this Korea trip serie!
The videography on this channel, the insert shots, the background imaging, the lighting-- simply is superb.
Man..... great video. I learned a few things today, love the music at the end too.
Best video of yours I’ve seen. Congratulations.
What a beautiful system, and in a beautiful environment open to the public.
I had those huge RCA speakers. Decades ago, my dad brought them home from a theater. I regret getting rid of them. Most natural mid range you will ever hear.
I’ve written this before on some other vid clip, but I’m shocked that this concept of great liquor based bar combined with awesome music using a killer stereo. In Japan this is more of a thing, but in the USA, maybe a dozen or so establishments exists. Come on USA, let’s make this happen
Really cool story. Love it!
This is so amazing and touching! Thank you!
Thank you for being a patreon and being part of what makes all this possible :)
This is your best yet Jay. I have become increasingly interested in this area of audio. I’m sure you are familiar with the growing trend out of Brooklyn and Living Voice here in England. This video will prompt me to support you through Patreon.
I am often speaking to your countrymen and women when I go and watch Tottenham each week. Sonny is a legend in Korea as he is in North London!!
Keep it up.
Brendan
Absolutely fantastic video Jay! ❤
awesome video.. touched me.. one of the best on youtube., would love to go to s.korea to see this place.
So cool i am traveling to korea this summer i will make a point of visiting bruno's bar!
Great story, Jay!
Great video! It's great to see there're so many hidden gems/companies in the Korea audio industry these days. Please keep discovering Jay!
Awesome, Jay! I’m booking a flight!
Hey Jay…instant sub for me. Super cool set-up from Bruno! Wow. 3:39ish. Funny, Andrew Robinson said the same thing, reviewing Klipsch La Scala. Brought him and his wife to tears…I’ve been intrigued ever since. Must be something about those big horns. Catch you on the B-side…🍻
Awesome, I love this story.
Jay I really hope one day you get to hear the all new Clarisys Audio Panel Loudspeakers ! I would love to be there when that happens...
i also cried at Audio Excellence Canada....when i saw their prices....
Extremely Cool!
Amazing!! I also see ATC scm 20's. This man has a exquisit taste!!
You should watch old movies when the studios were either using WE or RCA sound systems and their choice impacted how the voice and instruments sounded through later day systems like an Altec A2 system, it’s amazing how different the EQ was between the two US major players. Harry Olson designed some very cool stuff
That track you speak of is bad ass. This man can sing. The first time I head it with my Cornwalls, it was immersive in tonality on a different level I never heard before. I did not understand anything of what he was saying, but it presented to me an emotional feelings I never felt before either. So what you cried does not make you less of a man🤙 When my father passed away and they played taps at his funeral I cried hysterically. So I can understand this mans voice bring you to tears. If i could understand what he was saying I probably would have too.🤜🤛 Vince Gill track Go rest high on that mountain is another tune I like.✌
Indeed that track is my standard track to test the audio system , what a perfect recording of great voice singer ….
What a beautiful person a true audio file 😊
Your analysis of some deficits of horns are spot on. A true full range horn is hard to pull off....
That's what she said 🤣
That array reminds me of systems I've seen in movie theaters all over the East Coast of the USA back in the day. Very able to maintain the panning image from multiple seating locations and able to be shaped for the venue..
What a beautiful Journey for you, for us, for Bruno....
I need a sound sample and a cold beer after watching that! Super cool.
This is INCREDIBLE! Love this video Jay, and count me super jealous of that listening experience. Only surprise - you drink Guinness?? ☘️
I actually don't drink alcohol!
@@Jayiyagi Good life choice 👍 I wish had that willpower!
Great video thank you
This is kool AF!!! Love the 2a3 amp! So sophisticated!
What a story. Great stuff
Great episode Jay, thank you so much, kind of you to take us along!
This must be the ultimate 'man-cave'! I'm a "DIY 2A3SE man" myself (as you know;-) and i want to hear this system, so much attention and artisan love in it, it must feel like heaven!?
Could you please give a sound sample, please...??
Hey, Jay. Wish we had these kind of audio bars or Japanese Kissas in the GTA! The only thing I know of that’s even close is The Little Jerry but haven’t checked it out as of yet.
Yes, you're right about the translation. It's "I love you" from "我爱你".
I was impressed that music brought tears to your eyes. It has mine even tho it's never from the music causing a sad resurfaced memory or anything related to past event(s) like lost loves or past-on close relatives etc (tho that can happen, esp' when quite young with lost loves in my case) ...but natural grief passes & that aside, 99.99999% of the time, the tear or 10 caused by hearing certain music is purely "of the moment" & shows how powerful music is on an emotional level, how it can lift us up, like it's something almost too beautiful that it can make a person cry or rather "shed a tear or a few" but not weep in desperation or sheer sadness. When music is playing, that emotional effect definitely seems related to the reproduction quality i.m.o. & I've often felt almost painfully lifted emotionally & if I try to suppress it, it would probably give me s headache. It shows how we buy hi-fi for hearing music, instead of owning a few test-worthy albums to listen to our hi-fi. Some folk always enthuse about the gear & never enthuse about the music. The last time I heard something so beautiful that I felt happy-sad but emotionally lifted & my eyes watered-up was when i was listening to Beethoven's 13'th Quartet, & the 'Cavatina Adagio Molto Expressivo' track, i'd had the L.P. for years in a bought job-lot of mostly clasical, but I'd never heard that side before but it's almost painfully that it would hurt to suppress the emotion it caused. The above is why I like good hi-fi gear & the same goes for many folk out there, I presume. Bruno ...what a great guy & very technically smart with it. Winding your own output transformers ain't no easy task with all the bifilar interleaving capacitance to consider. In the early 80's, many called it a technical lost art but valve resurgence & clever folk changed all that. Great video & boy oh boy, what a system, field coil woofers instead of permanent magnets is what very few companies do now, they are much superiour for more than a couple of reasons, & those twin loaded compression driver'd cells ...wow
Fun video, thanks
Amazing
Bruno! what a legend .
What a clever man
Brilliant systems loved it
That’s such a cool story!
these RCA speakers look like old school music hall speakers you'd see at a old concert hall or church. And hearing your host try over 100 amps and 2 years to repeice the speakers impressed me
Jay, Where have you been? Was hoping for Korea audio vids. I hope you’re all right. J
Great video! Have you seen the story of Kenneth Fritz? He passed away recently (I think late 2021) but I hope his system lives on. If so, that room needs to be on your bucket list to visit. On a professional level, check out Pacifico audio’s listening room. Finally, are you familiar with Bach Dsp system that is the current hot topic?
Ken was a true man of passion. Dearly missed.
Nice Story.. 🎉👏🍾
RCA is a legend back then(vacuum tubes eras) ..its look so rough..Nice state of the art.
Oh man....I'd like to sit at that bar and look at all those great bottles...then start drinking a bit of ALL of them!!!
Direct Translation of "What I need...." is "我所需要的", I suppose in the Poetic Expression "我需要你的爱" is totally acceptable....👍
I'm blessed to have assembled a system that is like a slightly downsized version of this one, with huge constant directivity midrange horns and super powerful compression drivers, midbass "W-bin" folded horns, plus a robust pro sub and pro supertweeters. I cry too. Maybe I should open a music bar.
I would love to hear this system!
Very nice 👌
Hi! Do you know the hours? I am planning on going in a few weeks when I get to Seoul- am super excited to experience this!
hope to see you in a couple of days - is the bar open?
Tubes with horns seems to be a sweet combo.
Great music bar I have ever been.
1937.... wonderful. We will be in Seoul in 2 weeks and would love to see and experience the sound while enjoying a drink. Can't seem to catch a location when searching the Internet.
If Jay or anyone can help with the location it would be very appreciated.
Thanks for the on-site reporting. Enjoyable and very appreciated.
837 Nonhyeon-ro Gangnam-gu, Seoul
@@Jayiyagi Thank you 👌
Smoking in a Bar! OMG! The sky is falling! 🔈🔉🔊
Very Interesting
Amazing what a lucky man 😉👌
Great to see high end tube amp from Asia.
This looks like my kind of place Guinness and great music reproduction and friends ❤
Theresa Teng's Moon Represent My Heart ? It's a CLASSIC !!!
The old timers knew what they were doing. The next generations are just now finding it out. Speaking for the old timers. You're welcome.
If still in Korea, Go hear Silbatone…If you think what you heard is special…Brace yourself!
I know a 100K amp made with unobtanium pieces like Silver Foil tranny, VT2 tube… hybrid Design by Morrisson and Bae…❤ These are arguably part of top 10 best audio designers alive.
Using today's best knowledge applied to love of old tubes and 116db sensitivity WE speakers I found it truly magical. Time well spent in Korea!
Pretty sure the channel will love you for it!! ❤ thx for all do man! 👊🏼
Interstage Transformer coupling by definition is not direct coupling.😂
Time to start planning a Korea trip.
Thank you for being a patreon and being part of what makes all this possible :)
Coming with!
@@suwatt6019 I am in
I love these? I have been planning my American Jazz Kissa for a couple of years now...
Hi Jay how big are these RCA cabinets.
The Moon Represents My Heart written in the 70s It was made famous by the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng in 1977, and recorded by many people in including by Bon Jovi, believe it or not. The Terrisa Teng version made a lot of people cry every time the song is on, one of the epitomes and probably the finest example of Chinese/Mandarin ballads of all time. ruclips.net/video/-B5gAczFJps/видео.html
You finally heard a good system : )
What was the front end of the system that blew you away emotionally Jay?
Did they have passiv crossover or do you drive active?
I’d like to know more about the combination of drivers used on the multi-cell horn. The upper one appears to be a JBL, love to know the thinking behind this approach of combining different drivers. Back in the day combining two drivers was a necessary evil as power handling was rather limited. Phase cancellation was the price paid for a more powerful and robust system. Interesting I tell you what.
부르노 해외타전하네요
더더욱 발전하시길~~^^
I know you listened to most of the Klipsch line but have you heard the Klipschorns? How do they compare?
I hope you could visit the Silbatone HQ in South Korea next..
While most bars want better sound, this man wants a better bar for his amps and speakers.