As luxury amenities go, screening rooms are passé. Or rather, they’re no longer enough for the discerning Hollywood set. A new wave of exclusive listening rooms (both public and private) is immersive, analog, acoustics-driven experiences beyond the niche subculture of audiophiles. These spaces are sanctuaries, refuges from digital saturation. They invite you to lose the phones, the shoes, the distractions and listen — really listen — surrounded by high-end audio gear to the tune of millions of dollars.

The moment is warm and human, centered around the sacred ritual of selecting LPs (or CDs or even reel-to-reel, sales of which are surging) from IRL libraries that don’t disappear into the ether.

An OG of the movement is artist and audiophile Devon Turnbull, who has created immersive HiFi Pursuit Listening Room installations that invite passersby to listen to curated music with intention. His latest, at the Cooper Hewitt, closed in August.…