Siwilai Sound Club on Charoenkrung Road. Although it shares a space with multi-use creative space Central: the Original Store, the sound club's entrance is at the atmospheric back alley. I love it that it's got that jazz club vibe on the ground floor and a vinyl listening bar thing going on on the second floor.
Reviews informed me that it's got a great audio system with a balanced frequency spectrum that audiophiles would love and appreciate this bar's great sound reproduction for live music. Six Ojas 12” Coaxial speakers ensure that both musicians and audiences would be suitably cocooned. On the upper floor, a pair of Ojas 816 speakers and an original Urei 1620 mixer, and a set of Technics 1210's complete with Goldring E3 cartridges, are all deftly powered by a 2007 Mcintosh MC252 solid-state amplifier. They will blow you away at listening parties. This sound club's DJs on the upper floor would be definitely way better than say... Lennon's. Heh!
If you prefer another type of... how should I put it, members' club vibe (think British Club/SRC/Tanglin Club), Siwilai City Club at the top floor of Central Embassy would offer many options too. There's so much space in Bangkok to do all these and realize everyone's music dreams. How very nice. It's so tough to have a space like this in Singapore.
The drinks list is decent, and of course they do cocktails. I didn't bother with cocktails. I simply stuck to a lovely gentleman's dram of Lagavulin 16 y.o and enjoyed the vibes of the bar, the music and the conversation with friends. It was such a splendid evening! My only gripe — it's really dark! It's dim to begin with, but come 8.30pm, they dim the lights even more! Dohhh. That works only if I'm seated and watching the musicians who would be lit by 'stage lighting' or ambient lighting/moonlight through the glass roof above the piano.
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