Public Records is a Brooklyn music campus rather than a single listening bar: Sound Room, Upstairs, Atrium, Nursery, restaurant, and event spaces all operating around sound, design, and programming. It is built for movement, but the listening culture is not decoration. The rooms are treated as instruments, not neutral boxes. The Sound Room is the heavyweight space, built around a custom OJAS system by Devon Turnbull and a floating room-within-a-room acoustic design. Bass traps, acoustic clouds, and a carefully isolated structure give the room the scale it needs without turning every night into blunt-force club sound. Upstairs is smaller and more intimate, with a dedicated NNNN system and a room designed for closer listening, DJ sets, and long-form musical programming. Public Records can be a club and still leave room for people who care about tone, headroom, and selection. Go for the Sound Room when the night calls for volume and bodies. Go Upstairs when you want the same seriousness in a tighter, more social room. Either way, this is New York venue culture with sound treated as infrastructure, not mood lighting.