Only The Wild Ones
The most specified room in Los Angeles: horns built with Ojas, Accuphase amplification and a Euphonia rotary mixer.
Not yet verifiedLos Angeles took the kissa idea and gave it a dinner reservation. The systems are serious and often custom, but the rooms belong to the city's restaurant and DJ culture rather than to a tradition of silence.
None of these has been checked in person or confirmed by the venue yet. Each was written from what the venue publishes about itself, and every page says so.
The most specified room in Los Angeles: horns built with Ojas, Accuphase amplification and a Euphonia rotary mixer.
Not yet verifiedA downtown listening room from the people behind the best-known written guide to audiophile spaces.
Not yet verifiedA neighbourhood bar built around records and a properly tuned room.
Not yet verifiedExplicitly modelled on the seventies Tokyo template, down to the way records are looped through the evening.
Not yet verifiedWe have written up 4 in Los Angeles. None of these has been checked in person or confirmed by the venue yet. Each was written from what the venue publishes about itself, and every page says so.
Only The Wild Ones, Gold Line and Vinyl Room. The rest are set up for drinking and listening rather than eating.
Nothing on our Los Angeles list is open for coffee. Listening rooms here are evening places.
A bar built around a stereo, where the music is put on from vinyl, tape or a disc rather than played live, and the room is arranged to face the speakers. It is the descendant of the Japanese jazz kissa, with a bar tab and later hours.