Rhapsody.Audio Listening Rooms

Rhapsody.Audio- Listening Rooms (RLRs)

Rhapsody.Audio would like to announce that within the next 3-4 months there will be multiple new locations where several of the product lines that Rhapsody.Audio represents will be available to audition via Rhapsody.Audio Listening Rooms (RLRs).

Initially, the RLR’s will have the products available for demonstration mentioned below. Upon opening, the DFW RLR will have a very similar product offering as that available at Rhapsody.Audio in Manhattan.

Over time, all locations will be expanding their portfolio to a comparable scale as that of NYC/DFW.

The RLRs will be available to host auditions by appointment. All product ordering and delivery logistics will be processed and supported from the Rhapsody.Audio NYC location.

Product assistance and installation will be supported by Rhapsody.Audio NYC along with the RLRs depending on customer location.

The RLR locations are:


Portland - Rhapsody.Audio RLR

Products available to audition (coming soon)

-Pilium

-Alsyvox

-Diesis

-Bayz Audio

Dallas/Fort Worth Rhapsody.Audio DFW

Products available to audition:

-Alsyvox

-Diesis

-Bayz Audio

-Pilium

-VYGER

-Kondo

-Taiko Audio

-VYDA

West Palm Beach & Miami (2 Florida locations) Rhapsody.Audio WPB/Miami

West Palm Beach will open initially. Miami will follow when the RLR is ready to host customers.

Products available to audition (initially):

-Alsyvox

-Pilium

-Aurender

-TelluriumQ

Chicago, IL Rhapsody.Audio Chicago

Products available to audition (initially):

-Alsyvox

-Pilium

-Aurender

-TelluriumQ

Long Island, NY Rhapsody.Audio Long Island

-Kondo

-Alsyvox

 

It would be VERY interesting to hear the Elrogs and any new production, ANUK included, and see how the compare to the NOS.

I should add that there are probably a hundred+ Kondo users out there that use the stock Kondo tubes and live happily with their amplifiers and enjoy listening to music with their systems.

Buying NOS 211s at $700 - $1200 each from the 40's is not for the faint of heart!

Yes, you are completely right. If you want to go all the way, i.e. getting the best sound out of the Kondo (pre)amps, - and I suppose it is the same for (many) other tube amplifiers as well - you need to spend a lot of money on top notch NOS tubes. But if you can find as well as afford the latter, we both agree that you are being rewarded.

 

Yes, you are completely right. If you want to go all the way, i.e. getting the best sound out of the Kondo (pre)amps, - and I suppose it is the same for (many) other tube amplifiers as well - you need to spend a lot of money on top notch NOS tubes. But if you can find as well as afford the latter, we both agree that you are being rewarded.

Amen

 

How many manufacturers actively promote buying NOS tubes to optimize performance? My guess is zero.

 

How many manufacturers actively promote buying NOS tubes to optimize performance? My guess is zero.

Yes, I would think zero. The problem is they just aren't readily available. It's not only that you can't find them, if you do, they cost an arm and a leg, which would be fine, if they were tested at operating voltages, and had some type of return policy or guarantee. Then finding matched pairs that are truly matched. None of these safety nets come with purchasing NOS tubes. It's a crapshoot.

BUT, they sure do sound good

 

Diesis Audio/VYDA room at Rhapsody.Audio Brooklyn

Diesis Roma, Pilium Leonidas integrated and all VYDA cabling.




Diesis Ludos (far left and right), Diesis Aura (light wood, inside speakers), Diesis Evento integrated with all VYDA cabling.

 

You have cool listening rooms

 

You have cool listening rooms

Thx, I am grateful for the rooms.

 

It would be VERY interesting to hear the Elrogs and any new production, ANUK included, and see how the compare to the NOS.

I should add that there are probably a hundred+ Kondo users out there that use the stock Kondo tubes and live happily with their amplifiers and enjoy listening to music with their systems.

Buying NOS 211s at $700 - $1200 each from the 40's is not for the faint of heart!

Just to be sure, Bob, and only because you were referring to the ANUK 211 valves:

AN-4242E Audio Note (pair) — AN Shop

AN-4242E Audio Note = 211 = VT4C AN-4242E Audio Note with Molybdenum Anode are available as matched pairs or matched quads. If you order 8 tubes, we will supply you with 2 matched quads, as close as possible to each other. We offer a 12 months warranty from shipment date. Audionote.shop will i

audionote.shop

These were the special molybdenum 211 valves I mentioned yesterday

 

Just to be sure, Bob, and only because you were referring to the ANUK 211 valves:

AN-4242E Audio Note (pair) — AN Shop

AN-4242E Audio Note = 211 = VT4C AN-4242E Audio Note with Molybdenum Anode are available as matched pairs or matched quads. If you order 8 tubes, we will supply you with 2 matched quads, as close as possible to each other. We offer a 12 months warranty from shipment date. Audionote.shop will i

audionote.shop

These were the special molybdenum 211 valves I mentioned yesterday

Thx Rudolph, Yes I am aware of them as my tech is also the ANUK US service center as well as a sales location for ANUK. We are "strange bedfellows" because of the Kondo/ANUK relationship. I know those 211's are VG, but again, not in the cards for me.

 

Thx Rudolph, Yes I am aware of them as my tech is also the ANUK US service center as well as a sales location for ANUK. We are "strange bedfellows" because of the Kondo/ANUK relationship. I know those 211's are VG, but again, not in the cards for me.

Fully understandable, Bob.

 

Late night listening with Bayz CounterPoint 2.0 @ Rhapsody-out-West. (Portland RLR)

(A small nod to the low-light technology in the latest iPhone Pro cameras.)

 

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Late night listening with Bayz CounterPoint 2.0 @ Rhapsody-out-West. (Portland RLR)

(A small nod to the low-light technology in the latest iPhone Pro cameras.)

Stunning room and equipment!

 

A "boy" and his toys- Amy from Nordost was doing pics for the Rhapsody.Audio- Nordost Supreme Reference Dealer Spotlight. It's a good partial collection of the current set-ups at Rhapsody.Audio-Brooklyn.

 

So many great rooms @ Rhapsody NYC! I am very much looking forward to visiting. Covid be DAMNED—back to hell where you came from %@#$!

Over here at Rhapsody-out-West, I’ve managed to get the Bayz Counterpoints reasonably dialed in. Room for minor tweaking — possibly. But they are sounding very good in their current spots.

 

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looking good bob!

vbw,
-a

 

Jerry, the Rhapsody.Audio - Chicago location owner, just installed his Bayz Courantes, to go along with the Alsyvox Botticelli and the Diesis Caput Mundi. All driven with Pilium SS and soon to be VAC tube amplification.
Jerry has been having almost daily visitors, some guests prefer the Alsyvox, some the Diesis and now maybe some the Bayz.

 

Alsyvox Botticelli X, Rhapsody.Audio - Brooklyn

 

Raidho TD3.8, Rhapsody.Audio - Brooklyn

 

Magico A5s at Rhapsody.Audio - Brooklyn

 

Jerry, the Rhapsody.Audio - Chicago location owner, just installed his Bayz Courantes, to go along with the Alsyvox Botticelli and the Diesis Caput Mundi. All driven with Pilium SS and soon to be VAC tube amplification.
Jerry has been having almost daily visitors, some guests prefer the Alsyvox, some the Diesis and now maybe some the Bayz.
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So many great rooms @ Rhapsody NYC! I am very much looking forward to visiting. Covid be DAMNED—back to hell where you came from %@#$!

Over here at Rhapsody-out-West, I’ve managed to get the Bayz Counterpoints reasonably dialed in. Room for minor tweaking — possibly. But they are sounding very good in their current spots.

Heard these at bobs , its really nice in sound that i think gets inhanced by the apsense of looking at speakers as art . Great sound and looks .