A pub in London, one with a great sound system????

Rocker

Read this on tnt-audio.com.  Might be worth a visit:  http://www.tnt-audio.com/tours/spiritland_e.html

Anyone living close care to check this out?

Bellycaster

No need, I can hear it up here 

duotone

Cheers for the link

Sporky

I'm up in London fairly often.

Can't see any acoustic treatment in there, just a lot of hard surfaces.

stickyfiddle

Being in London it will be full of wankers, and presumably the sound will only be really good if you're sitting right in the middle.

Nevermind that it sounds almost as dull a night out as going clubbing.

UnclePsychosis

The whole piece reads like a really close-to-the-bone article from the Daily Mash.

Philly_Q

It's bugger all use having an amazing sound system if you don't like the music.

Rocker

Leave your prejudices at home for the day and pay it a visit even if only for a coffee.  I have heard a few horn speakers and they all need a large room with hard walls.  More or less exactly as depicted in the photographs.  Horn speakers are loud, but not loud as we know it Jim,  loud as in a concert grand loud but loud without being deafening.  You can easily have a chat with your companions when the (loud) music is playing.

I have only ever seen and heard one Kuzma turntable - and it was the entry level model but with a 12" arm.  There is no doubt that Kuzma are a quality product  - the sound I heard was top notch but entirely different from that of a well setup Linn LP12.  The Kuzma in that pub is in a completely different league to the model I heard, I would anticipate it to being close to a jaw dropping experience when the stylus hits the disk.

When I am next in London, I will make it my business to drop in for a listen.  If you have never heard a top notch hi-fi system in a room big enough for it to show its paces, call there and have a coffee/drink and hear some good music.  

Makes a welcome change from Bose sh!t.

rlw

stickyfiddle said:

Being in Islington it will be full of wankers, and presumably the sound will only be really good if you're sitting right in the middle.

Nevermind that it sounds almost as dull a night out as going clubbing.

Corrected that for you

duotone

I'm around 45mins away from that place, I will check it out, perhaps sometime next week.

Rocker said:

Leave your prejudices at home for the day and pay it a visit even if only for a coffee.  

duotone

Rocker

The Kuzma Stabi turntable I heard was the one three in on the top row and there are several other images of it throughout this series of photographs.  There are lots of other Kuzmas that take the performance of the Stabi to an entirely different level of performance:

https://www.google.ie/search?q=kuzma+turntables&espv=2&biw=1745&bih=864&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM_Mrk84DSAhWkOsAKHeRCD0EQsAQIPw&dpr=1.1

jpfamps

I'm really looking forward to hearing the 18-40 kHz (yes that's kHz) super tweeter! Especially with CD source, which is brickwall limited at 20 kHz.

However I'm concerned that the 300B amp driving the mids is push-push and not single ended, although it's reassuring that the manufacturers haven't ruined the sound of the amp by employing negative feedback.

jpfamps

Sporky said:

I'm up in London fairly often.

Can't see any acoustic treatment in there, just a lot of hard surfaces.

I assume the owners are depending on the beards of their customers to provide this............

rlw

jpfamps said:

Sporky said:

I'm up in London fairly often.

Can't see any acoustic treatment in there, just a lot of hard surfaces.

I assume the owners are depending on the beards of their customers to provide this............

..and the cord jackets........

duotone

Am going to go, on Wednesday 

duotone

Went there today, it's about a 5minute walk from Kings Cross tube station.

Much smaller than it looked like from the photos.  Had a hot salt beef & mustard sandwich, flat white coffee & schooner (2/3 of a pint) of IPA beer.  All of which were really good.

The Hi-Fi was on playing Michael Jackson when I walked in, and played through some playlist including Diana Ross and some other tunes I didn't recognise.

Volume was pretty quiet & with everyone talking at lunchtime it was hard to clearly hear the music. But they do an album club Monday-Friday that starts at 6pm, where they play an album all the way through.  

Will probably do an album club visit & evening session another time.

viz

I’m going to pop in this evening. I’ve got an entry-level Kuzma deck; would be good to hear the next level up. 

duotone

@viz ;

Probably the best time to go is the evening as they tend to have the volume turned up a bit louder then, went once at lunchtime & it was pretty low volume (think it was the Michael Jackson/Diana Ross post I posted before ^)

Have a good one!

viz

duotone said:

@viz ;

Probably the best time to go is the evening as they tend to have the volume turned up a bit louder then, went once at lunchtime & it was pretty low volume (think it was the Michael Jackson/Diana Ross post I posted before ^)

Have a good one!

Cool - I’ll be there at 6-ish

viz

They do a nice manzanilla. Sound system was very amazing!