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No Audiophiles in Hollywood

A thought just came to me that a lot of movies show us the lives of fictional people doing the everyday things that real people do. However, we never see anyone sitting down and listening to a high end system.

The only thing that I can remember is when the billionaire played by Robert Redford put on an LP on what appeared to be a high end turntable in the movie "Indecent Proposal".

I have never seen exposed tubes on-screen, or an amp of any type for that matter. Big speakers, fuggedaboudit...it seems hifi does not fit the decor scheme of movie sets, or more realistically, audiophiles are rarer on earth than Klingons and Romulans and hollywood does not know of their existence.

It would seem that some of the well heeled actors, directors and producers would own a killer 2 channel system and periodically include one in a scene when the character has discretionary income.

We've all seen scenes with the wife complaining about the husband always watching sports, but never complaining about him pampering his hi-fi rig.

We've all seen characters with automobiles and other toys that we've envied, but never a stereo system to make you salivate.

Anyone ever see a hi-fi system onscreen worth mentioning?

Just a thought.
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audiowoman
249 posts
 
House lists Sota at the end of the program. I don't watch it, but love Castle and that apartment is great. Haven't seen stereo in it yet, but the last two shows have shown a very big flat screen up on the wall.
Covert Affairs shows a nice rig in the living room of the guy who plays the blind computer whiz.
rleff
1,065 posts
 
House does have a sota turntable in his office behind his desk;it's in a different wood this year as it is darker and it looks like a sumiko ft3 tonearm is on it;as for his speakers I have never been able to figure out what they are;Hugh Laurie is a talented actor as well as musician.
davespectral
6 posts
 
QUOTE: “07-24-11: Barruch86
In "The Mechanic"(remake)Jason Statham plays a pro-ject rpm 9.2 and a tube amp, not sure what it was though.”

That was funnier than hell! At this point Statham was really tolerant of the immaturity of his understudy. The kid walks up to the Turntable and starts to play with the tonearm. Statham grabs him and snaps, “Don’t EVER touch that!” – Priceless LOL
enobenetto
67 posts
 
Netflix streaming had a british comedy show by Steve Coogan called "Saxondale"
He plays a retired roadie of the big 70's rock bands that has hard time with coming to terms that the good times are over (so to speak)

To make a long story short there is a funny scene where he walks into a british Hifi shop and tests the shop guys skills.

Funny and lots a modern british hifi.
agisthos
503 posts
 
In the HK movie 'Infernal Affair's' (which was remade in Hollywood as 'The Departed'), the main actor works in a Hong Kong high end audio shop, the bad guy visits and they both sit down and audition a system and they become lost for words. He then buys an expensive power cable.

You can't get much more hard core audiophile than that.

btw the original Infernal Affairs was such a good movie, that Scorsese literally just copied it scene for scene without changing that much of the original story.
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