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

 

Hey Bob,

Make it out to Chicago in one piece.

Peace bro..

Charles

Hi Charles,

We set everything up this morning And now it’s warming up. The tape pre and tape player sounds great.

 

Konstantinos and Costas(?) of Pilium visited the Portland RLR yesterday -- a treat to spend time with the mind behind the sound. I love meeting with and learning from the passionate and creative individuals who drive this hobby forward.


Please forgive the crap photo — pumping up the lighting isn’t always good with LED lighting it
throws the color balance all to hell.

 

Konstantinos Pilios, my good friend, and the owner of Pilium spent the last 4 days visiting Rhapsody- Brooklyn. This concluded his trip which started in San Francisco, then on to Portland, OR, then Dallas, TX and finally ending in Brooklyn.

Konstantinos visited Alon at Magico to see the Pilium system which drives the Magico M9s in the Magico showroom, then Konstantinos visited the Portland, Dallas and Brookklyn Rhapsody Listening Rooms.

Thank you SO MUCH for your week in the US and visiting us all. Greatly appreciated!!!

 

The Esoteric N-01XD network player, which either plays the Esoteric player (Qobuz/Tidal/Spotify) or Roon via the Taiko Extreme server (N=01XD is Roon Ready) driving the F-03A (30 Watts, Class A into 8 ohms or 60 Watts Class A into 4 ohms, surprisingly to me drives either the Magico A5s or the Raidho C1.1 speakers, which both are not that easy to drive. I have no desire for more power with either speaker and the sound is VG, with the pure class A amplification.

The N-01XD utilizes the latest Esoteric in-house DAC's which imho are VG sounding.

 

Diesis Roma being driving by a Taiko Extreme>>>Esoteric Network Player>>>Esoteric 30 Watt Class A F03A integrated with Nordost cables at Rhapsody - Brooklyn.

 

Magico A5s with the Pilium Leonidas integrated at Rhapsody-Brooklyn

 

Interesting that the new Alsyvox Raffaello is being driven with the Jadis JA30s (30 Watts) at Munich.

 

I heard the predecessor design driven by 14 tube watts at the New York audio show in 2012. I think it was called the Leonardo and the whole point was that it could be driven by low powered tubes and not massive solid-state according to the guy running the room at that time. Perhaps the new designs are different.

 

I heard the predecessor design driven by 14 tube watts at the New York audio show in 2012. I think it was called the Leonardo in the whole point was where it could be driven by low powered tubes and not massive solid-state according to the guy running the room at that time.

Yes, Leonardo was the Alsyvox predecessor, also made by Daniele, the owner of Alsyvox. Daniele has been using a 30 Watt tube amp during all of this Leonardo and Alsyvox development over the years.

I am presently using either 600 Watts of Pilium SS power or 200 Watts of VAC power. I like both sounds.

 

Interesting that the new Alsyvox Raffaello is being driven with the Jadis JA30s (30 Watts) at Munich.

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This room sounds very good from video.

 

Review of the Magico A1s, which are available for audition at Rhapsody.Audio in Brooklyn.
https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/magico-a1

 

Bayz Audio Courante being shown at Hi-Fi Deluxe this weekend at the Marriott in Munich.

 

I heard the predecessor design driven by 14 tube watts at the New York audio show in 2012. I think it was called the Leonardo in the whole point was where it could be driven by low powered tubes and not massive solid-state according to the guy running the room at that time.

How did you like the (then called) Leonardos?

 

This room sounds very good from video.

Lampi and AlsyVox.
What is there not to like

 

How did you like the (then called) Leonardos?

I enjoyed them very much. I had never heard low powered tubes drive panels before. The guy played a couple of my LPs on a Redpoint or Galivier TT. He liked the LPs so much he waited for me to return so he could use them for demo. Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter, Neville Mariner, and Carla White, Mood Swings. The audience loved it too with many writing down the info. The sound was very clean, dynamic, coherent, and open with decent tone if a bit lean sounding.

 

Bayz Audio Counterpoint at Munich High-End-

 

Alsyvox Raffaello at Munich High-End 2022

 

Where does the new Raffaello sit in the Alsyvox line up? Between Caravaggio and Michelangelo?

 

 

The Magico/Pilium/Taiko/VYDA room at Munich. The room has been packed all three days so far. I have heard comments like jaw dropping, one of the best sounds at the show etc, from MANY visitors. This is with $25K Magico A5s.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/et6WcTasZ7g