The best place to listen to music??

That place is awesome.  Sounds like my type of place.  Thanks for sharing.  

“I have never run a bar that has considered what the customer wants,” Fukuyama tells us one evening at his bar. “People often say that the customer is always right, but I’m not confident that’s true."

I'm in!

The best place to listen to music is on a mega yacht at the marina in Monaco.

Yuck, I get sea sick. The bar might be a nice place to hear new music but for LISTENING like determining which cartridge images better? Forget it.
There is also no deep bass. Old Garrard's are great for slip cuing but rumble like express trains regardless of what all those Garrard fans say.
If you put my subwoofer system in there the rattles from all those bottles and glasses would ruin everything. No thanx. As Dorothy says, "There is no place like home." I can also get loaded there just fine. 

+1@mijostyn

i spend 30 hours a week in my room (click on my name to see) listening and it’s where i most enjoy listening. my room is in a barn, separate from my house, in the middle of 5 acres, in the mountains, so i can play music as long as i want, whenever i want, as loud as i want.

even better is when friends join me to listen, and i have plenty of comfortable chairs for that to happen often.

If you are in the Bay Area check out Bar Shiru in Oakland which borrowed the concept, but not the owners attitude.

https://www.barshiru.com/

Horn speakers, as well as a set of Devore. Mostly Line Magnetic electronics, but some Parasound (they are local) sprinkled in. A couple of turntables one of which I know is a VPI and I think the other is an SME.

Good selection of Japanese whiskey and other spirits. A nice relaxing place to hang out and enjoy some music away from home.

Those Tannoy Dual Concentrics are the stuff of legend.

Can't identify the model but something so right about vintage Tannoys - flawed but timeless classics.

mike do you serve any adult beverages to your guests 

Clio, a VPI for sure. I don't think the other one is an SME. The Tonearm is certainly not an SME. Maybe an older Graham. 
I have never heard Line Magnetic stuff. It is certainly reasonable priced for point to point electronics. The speakers must be....very romantic. 
The woofer cabinet is constructed pretty much like old Bozaks. A big plywood box in this case ported with minimal bracing and fill. The enclosure itself is a musical instrument. You can see it opened up on their web site. Power these with their 160 watt single ended class A tube amps and run for cover. Boy I would love to hear that:) 

This post and the video asks the age old question.." can we just enjoy the music" ?  

@mijostyn, I just noticed the speakers were Line Magnetic as well. For some reason that escaped me on my previous visits. I wish they would have had the Devore speakers playing on one of my visits but they weren’t hooked up yet. Maybe next time.

The music can get pretty loud in there making it difficult to have a conversation if you are close to the speakers. If you are off in one of the side areas or at the bar it is easier to converse.

sounds real, you bet. Our specialty is the Aperol Spritzer. I keep a bottle of XO around for the really special people. 

They should probably have one music listening room and others that are relatively quiet for people who want to socialize. I think most of go to bars to socialize and we expect to have soft background music if anything. I go to concerts to listen to music. Some bars have dancing but I have little interest in thump bang disco music. It would be fun to hear what this system sounded like for sure.
soundsreal, sure, but I can't bury myself in the music and socialize at the same time. I can't bury myself in the music if there is too much background noise or the system sounds off. I can listen to anything as background music but then I am really not listening to the music. My idea of listening to music is to turn the lights off, lay back in a comfortable chair feet up with my head exactly were the calibration mic was and let the music cover me like a warm blanket eyes closed. The dichotomy of human existence. We can do such beautiful things as the most vicious animals in nature. 

I'd like to just hear his selections and not get too caught up in the audiophile experience.  It's a venue with attitude and a vibe, not a studio.

@mikelavigne , beautiful room, I will need your hours and good directions.

My brother-in-law (in LA) checked this one out, a month ago....

https://www.insheepsclothinghifi.com/new-page

@tooblue 

you would be welcome any time you are in the neighborhood.....the mountains 30 miles east of Seattle.

message me and we can work it out.

@soundsrealaudio

i do have a modest collection of scotches and whiskey’s, and a fridge down the hall with some other choices. a man (or woman) does not go dry listening in my room.

mostly i drink water myself, but a sip of neat single malt seems like just the thing occasionally.

I wish koestner  would invite me to listen to his system in the yacht in Moracco. I wonder if they use bass busters in the bow? 

@mikelavigne , WOW, beautiful gesture. Thank you.

Home, or at a place that features good actual musicians...a bar actually featuring a groovy stereo system seems like hipster or simply trendy silliness as that's not what bars are for, although it doesn't hurt to have an actual OK system in a bar...you could replicate that if you need to...invite a crowd of strangers in to walk around in front of your home system listening to things you might not like while you tweak your man bun. 

It is a lot cheaper and much less of a headache than hiring musicians and you get to write off your hi fi equipment! Let's see, did I buy that for the home or the office, (scratches chin.)

Here in New England we have an old expression, "Loose Marbles Roll West."

I am going to be visiting Tokyo in the Spring and will stop in to listen. I believe I have a responsibility to make suggestions as to how he can improve the sound ie. more watts for sure and a swarm of subwoofers at least. Suggestions please. The more people who agree on what he should upgrade the easier to convince him to upgrade. 

Your thoughts?