World’s Best Sound at Korea's Hidden Music Bar - ENDGAME Story of an Audiophile

Bruno's Music Listening Bar in Korea is THE PLACE to visit in Korean that features Horn speaker system of 1937 By RCA that rivals Western Electric Speakers. The RCA Photophone Speakers are no ordinary High-End Audiophile Speakers. Made initially for a theatre system, it has made many laugh and cry over the years and is guaranteed to do the same for you even after decades.

Bruno Bar's Location: 837 Nonhyeon-ro Gangnam-gu, Seoul
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[Jayiyagi]

*This video is brought you by music lovers like yourselves. (**Patreon.com/jayiyagi)* Thank you for stopping by to follow my audiophile journey and Bruno’s story. For more on his tube amplifiers including pricing, please contact him directly!

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[MisterJDee]

It’s nice to see people who make amazing things for the passion of it, rather than for profit.

[flormanjr]

RCA stands for Radio Corporation of America
FYI for the new generation.
Jay when I read RCA Speakers in your title I doubted it was the RCA I’ve known, the company I worked for from 1969 to 1999. But when you showed it’s location, Camden NJ, then I knew it’s the same company established in 1919 by David Sarnoff.

RCA was the most trusted name in Electronics back in the days past. It started as a telephone/telegraph company and branched to TV manufacturing, TV broadcasting (NBC), electronic component manufacturing including vacuum tubes etc. I did not know that they manufactured loudspeaker let alone the likes of Altec Lansing’s Voice of the Theater.
The RCA brand is now relatively unknown. It changed ownership several times including GE, MCI, WorldCom etc.

But I still see the name often in high end audio, the RCA audio cables. I bet not many audiophiles know what RCA stands for. I ❤ RCA! It shaped my career of 40 years in telecommunications.

[farleytaylor]

I had those huge RCA speakers. Decades ago, my dad brought them home from a theater. I regret getting rid of them. Most natural mid range you will ever hear.

[sgreenfield]

Amazing passion! Thanks for sharing this Jay. I never knew about RCA, or Western Electric speakers, nor would I associate them with anything approaching the level of audiophile. I'm loving this kind of content; Bruno's passion for music leading him on a vision quest to create the perfect system, even going so far as to manufacture his own Amps! Great story.

Do more like this!🥰

[Skip]

Great story Jay, please do more stories like this on your channel when possible. Great listening bars around the world that we need to support.

[NickP]

Thanks, Jay. This is so totally up my alley. Some absolutely beautiful gear. That’s the type of stuff that makes me shed a tear too. Those BRUNOCO amps look great. I’d love to hear one. I know you’re in Korea, but when I was in Japan about 10 yrs ago, I went to a “HiFi bar” with some of the most amazing gear and sound I’d ever seen and heard. Again, thank you, Jay. ✌️ 🔊😊🎶

[tombrennan]

Those are RCA versions of the Shearer Horn system developed in the 1930s at MGM by project manager John Hilliard. Hilliard was the guy who discovered time delay distortion during the famous Eleanor Powell double tap incident in which the long source distance between the lower and upper horns of a WE monitor caused single taps of tap dancing to be reproduced as double taps. Hilliard wanted a movie theater speaker that eliminated that and when WE showed no interest Doug Shearer, head of the MGM sound department, told Hilliard to develop a speaker. Involved in the project were Bob Stephens, James Lansing and Harry Olson. Hilliard went on to become the head engineer at Altec where he designed the VOTs as an improvement on the Shearer system. I see at least one JBL compression driver in the system in the video, a driver not original to RCA shearer systems. Note though that RCA used a JBL compression driver in their LC9 monitor of the 1950s.

[Dave-Z]

This is what true passion looks like! Very inspiring. I’m looking forward to seeing more videos in this series.

[halmetzger]

Jay, this was one of the most amazing videos you’ve done yet!
Thanks for sharing your passion and inspiration with us and introducing us to others with this amazing passion and knowledge!
Would love too see more like this!

[thorstenwieszniewski]

Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Completely flashed. After seeing that, you have to take a deep deep breath. So nice from you, to give us these 15 seconds to complentate and meditate at the end of this hillarious video by showing just a dark screen.
I have to visit Brunos Bar in Seoul at some point during my livetime!

[jeb]

This is great. I love this guys passion for vintage audio and for sharing the sound with people. Love it

[odizcvw]

Great video. I know my system is working when it causes involuntary emotional response on some tracks. There is something in the sound that elicits a human response. Wonderful.
You exposed Bruno's journey in a way that connects. Well done.

[Fluterra]

The RCA 1428/1443 are the best midrange ever made. If you can call their super wide (800-12000Hz) “midrange”!

[playbackamusicloversjourne]

Awesome Jay. Your best work yet. Loved it.

[marcusklingman]

I heard large Western Electric speaker installations at the Munich High End Audio expo several times now. Each time I was amazed by the sound quality of these speakers made in the 20s and 30s. They easily beat anything made today. Any listening thereafter at the show was a dissapointment. The sound is huge and totally captivating. Singers and instruments stand out and have real body and tonal quality is superb. Those demos were organized and paid for by a Korean fellow who also makes his own electronics. But I don't recall his name or brand.

[foldspacenavigator]

What a fascinating vid Jay. Love the travel element woven in and hope you can do more if you are abroad again. Well done sir!

[Fluterra]

No one has come close to the RCA 1428/1443 on a conical horn (even better than these multicell), including Western Electric. Back in the day, it was well known than RCA had outdone WE with this design.

[evanbonnell]

What an amazing video! The content and production quality are out of this world. Thank you for this beautiful gem.

[dosstodd]

Absolutely love this! Please bring us more episodes like this! Nobody else does!