An audiophile cannot but cry watching this

[IndianEars]

Yes.

The was also Melody Saloon at Colaba Causeway & Next to Strand Cinema.

All these stores had record listening booths

 

[keith_correa]

Melody Saloon at Colaba Causeway & Next to Strand Cinema.

Haircuts for Audiophiles!!!!

I'd forgotten about them. Thanks for the memory!

 

[oracle1974]

I had bought my first system from Hiro Music House: Crest Tape Deck, Cosmic Amplifier and Arphi Super Challenger speakers.

Anyone remember Hiro Music House at Linking Road and Kala Ghoda? I used to frequent them more than Rhythm House though the staff at Rhythm House were certainly more knowledgeable than the ones at Hiro.
I feel that tributes to Rhythm House should have been paid a long time ago - much before it physically shut down, because sadly, it died long before it was sold.

 

[keith_correa]

I had bought my first system from Hiro Music House: Crest Tape Deck, Cosmic Amplifier and Arphi Super Challenger speakers.

I bought Arphi Aquarius speakers from them eons ago. Sounded superb in the shop. Sounded absolutely HORRIBLE at my home. I had to plead with some friends to take them away gratis. I hope they burned them.

 

[ssf]

I bought Arphi Aquarius speakers from them eons ago. Sounded superb in the shop. Sounded absolutely HORRIBLE at my home. I had to plead with some friends to take them away gratis. I hope they burned them.

Old audiophile saying "Change house, not speakers"

 

[Deleted member 15865]

Thaneites would probably remember buying CDs from New Symphony on Gokhale road. They beat Planet M any day. Even NS has bit the dust.

 

[Sean de Silva]

Thank you @SachinChavan for this thread. Brought back a flood of memories of the 90s and early 2000s spent at Akbarallys (SV Rd Santacruz), Hiro Music House(Hill Rd Bandra) and ofcourse Rhythm House(Kalaghoda) scouring for CDs and LPs. Time flies...

 

[sound1]

Free to watch for the next four days:

@SachinChavan Sir, easy to say but I will say it anyways...

Isn't there nothing we can do??

I am in Bangalore and there is a second hand book store in Church Street which I love to visit with my wife and son. We buy books, comic books from them very often, read them, and then resell back to them (at 50% or whatever, I don't care, I just care about their shop being open that's all) . Point is - there are some things, we as a community, have a responsibility to carry out to keep our society the way we like it. Like, making sure that our apartment building doesn't have any plumbing/electrical/elevator issues, keeping our street clean, keeping our city vibrant (in our case it is parks), and so on...

About the book store - I was thinking to ask the owner if he ever entertained the idea of cataloguing all his books and make it available online. Of course I can't write the app myself (not a good techie), so never asked. But I think there are many people in this forum who definitely can, and they it owe to the shop owner if they did any transactions with them.. We want OUR OWN local shop to buy and sell used/unused books, not a giant MNC (but kindle is a different matter)

Coming back to the Rhythm shop - could they have found alternate avenues like getting exclusive rights for recording/reselling exclusive rights of live performances of famous artists? Could they have persuaded those birthday celebrities to endorse the 'Rhythm' brand for these concerts for exclusive rights? How about asking remastering of original tapes of Hindi oldies and selling/streaming them exclusively for the members? How about bringing back those employees as customer support and asking them to recomment music based on their taste? Looks like the store attendants have so much knowledge about the Artists and music, customer/members wouldn't have problems paying especially for non-popular music. They have to accept that it is a niche market, and it is NOT OF A TRIVIAL size. People pay for experiences, otherwise iPhone would have been a failure.

Sorry for the rant but will leave you guys with this quote by Pastor Martin Niemöller:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

 

[Deleted member 15865]

@SachinChavan Sir, easy to say but I will say it anyways...

Isn't there nothing we can do??

I am in Bangalore and there is a second hand book store in Church Street which I love to visit with my wife and son. We buy books, comic books from them very often, read them, and then resell back to them (at 50% or whatever, I don't care, I just care about their shop being open that's all) . Point is - there are some things, we as a community, have a responsibility to carry out to keep our society the way we like it. Like, making sure that our apartment building doesn't have any plumbing/electrical/elevator issues, keeping our street clean, keeping our city vibrant (in our case it is parks), and so on...

About the book store - I was thinking to ask the owner if he ever entertained the idea of cataloguing all his books and make it available online. Of course I can't write the app myself (not a good techie), so never asked. But I think there are many people in this forum who definitely can, and they it owe to the shop owner if they did any transactions with them.. We want OUR OWN local shop to buy and sell used/unused books, not a giant MNC (but kindle is a different matter)

Coming back to the Rhythm shop - could they have found alternate avenues like getting exclusive rights for recording/reselling exclusive rights of live performances of famous artists? Could they have persuaded those birthday celebrities to endorse the 'Rhythm' brand for these concerts for exclusive rights? How about asking remastering of original tapes of Hindi oldies and selling/streaming them exclusively for the members? How about bringing back those employees as customer support and asking them to recomment music based on their taste? Looks like the store attendants have so much knowledge about the Artists and music, customer/members wouldn't have problems paying especially for non-popular music. They have to accept that it is a niche market, and it is NOT OF A TRIVIAL size. People pay for experiences, otherwise iPhone would have been a failure.

Sorry for the rant but will leave you guys with this quote by Pastor Martin Niemöller:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Yes @sound1, your points on social responsibility and activism are well-taken. Your effort towards sustaining local book stores is highly appreciable. Am sure a number of us hobbyists do the same in multiple ways in our own circles. This forum itself is an outcome of a similar ongoing collective effort.

Though the thread’s title suggests nostalgia and sadness - emotions that were echoed by many of its readers who had experienced RH first hand, it doesn’t necessarily end there. Pure emotions lead to pure action in some way or the other.

 

[Nitin K]

Thank you @SachinChavan for this thread. Brought back a flood of memories of the 90s and early 2000s spent at Akbarallys (SV Rd Santacruz), Hiro Music House(Hill Rd Bandra) and ofcourse Rhythm House(Kalaghoda) scouring for CDs and LPs. Time flies...

Good memories of Rhythm house though had gone just a few times. The eating joints in the vicinity were also good.
There was another big music store in the Eros theater building called "Groove" which came up much later & was also good but that also shut before Rhythm house.