No Audiophiles in Hollywood

read it was a VPI TNT somewhere
Oliver Stone's "Talk Radio" has several minutes showing Apogee Diva's

Readster,

I believe Robert Redfords table was an Oracle, dont know what the model was tho.

Marty,

I'm surprised they didn't go ahead and use it. Friends of mine were hired as technical advisors for a dance movie and none of their advise was taken unless it meshed with the director's ideas. Director would want someone to do something even though no dancer would ever do it, too bad.

This is why there are thousands and more young guys who think Brad Pitt is a tough guy because he was in "Fight Club" and beat people up.

Does anyone know what turntable, Robert Redford played in "Indecent Proposal". I've watch that scene several times, but can't tell.

They had a pair of Martin Logan's in Joey and Chandler's apartment on Friends for a season or two.

I believe the speakers on Sex and the City were the big Red Rose models,
which would make sense of course given ML's connection to the show.

I thought those speakers on Entourage were Piegas, but Paradigm makes
more sense. Mildly exotic looking.

Nice movie, and the guy was a vinyl nut, and about collecting and playing mint LP`s only.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the movie The Rock where Nicolas Cage bought a Beatles LP and it seems to me they showed a TT, but I don't recall which one.

Clockwork Orange had a (for the time) serious looking turntable and a tape deck that used mini-cassettes. Seeing the Lara Croft lp spinner almost made me shout in the movie theater, at least don't think anyone heard me?

In "Sex and the City" the character Big plays an LP for Carrie on some TT. Don't know the brand. He had some tower/floorstanding type speakers in the backround. Also of an unknown brand.

In High Fidelity John Cusack is shown making a tape through a Nad Cd-player.

Got two:

1) Bernie Mac Show - His den (shown every episode) has Martin Logan speakers but what look like generic gear, maybe Adcom or Rotel.

2) A 1980s movie (have no idea of name) in which the protaganist, a teenage guy, is taking stereo equipment from someone's house as "payback" and he loads an Oracle turntable and high end amp into a car trunk. I've seen this section of flick on TV a number of times, never saw the movie or caught name of it. Anyone know?

Pulp Fiction. One scene cueing a record, (I think Dusty Springfield), one scene playing a reel to reel tape deck.

Yeah Skeyebox, I was afraid Lara was gonna fall on that turntable when she was doing all that in-house cable swinging.

One of my favorites is in Risky Business when Joel's [Tom Cruise] Dad tells him not to touch his equalizer while he and his Mom are away on their trip, and how his Dad has to readjust all the sliders because Joel pushed them all out of wack.

what about love potion #9 with sandra bullock and that guy, nameless guy, star guy, he's got what looks like an oracle? or some other acrylic table. of course the table and speakers are behind the sofa so that leaves something to be pondered. the hooker he picks up actually rips him off remarking that "that thing must be worth thousands!"

High Fidelity with John Cusack.

Near the end he's sitting in his listening chair with LP playing. You can clearly see tube amplification glowing in the background.

I believe on the short lived Cosby Detective TV series he had a set of Carver Amazings (I think).

Never did see any source components...

This is a little off, but still somewhat relevant. On "The best damn sports show period" they have B&W speakers.

Rob

Besides the Martin Logans on Friends, they also had some blue room mini pods. Those replaced the martin logans. I thought for a while that the towers in "As Good As It Gets" were the real expensive Sony towers. What Woman What does have Madrigal gear. Revel Ultima Gems and Mark Levinson amplification.

Product placement helps offset the costs of production. For a sum of money,a producer will put your product in the movie and even mention it in the script. Because most mid-fi and high end systems are made up of components from different manufacurers,that might have something to do with it.

Jack Nicholson had a nice Mcintosh MC2102 system in AS GOOD AS IT GETS with a 12 foot stack of vinyl supported on a shelf underneath. Lets not forget Mcintosh's famous erotic MC2255 5..4..3..2..1.. countdown on Micky Rourke's system in 9 1/2 weeks just before he gets down to business with Kim Bassinger.

Laura Croft....Tomb Raider....she was spinning vinyl on a Clearaudio table.

As Good As It Gets - Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt. Jack "Melvin Udall" has a McIntosh system, a turntable and possibly Avalon towers. You can spot it at least a couple of times in the movie. I think it came out around 1999 or so.

LOL...Slappy...as I was reading the posts I was thinking about that same pair of Martin Logans in friends...I dont even think they were pointed in the right direction...never really watched the show...but I actually *did catch that episode....Friends...pfffft...lol

The folks that make the Soprano's called up Donna at SOTA and asked if they would lend them a TT for that show. They promised them that it would be shown in the show and that it would specifically be mentioned as being a SOTA. As it turns out, Kirk & Donna shipped a table out to them, but when it came time to do the show, the video was cut. They did say "Wow, is that a SOTA turntable" though without showing it. Needless to say, Kirk & Donna weren't as happy as they would have been with some visuals to go with the name mention, but they did get a few calls and greater exposure out of it.

This tells me that Hollyweird is aware of this type of gear and "audiophilia" on the whole, but whether or not it makes it into any shows on a regular basis is another story. Manufacturers would have to donate gear for the exposure and unless it is used in a high profile show and is prominently displayed in a fashion that delivers high visibility, the cost of the gear may outweigh the limited exposure received. After all, if they simply panned by a bunch of gear in a rack, what other than Mac's blue meters, etc... would you recognize at a glance ??? Sean
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As far as movies go, you might be right.
BUT in TV shows, like Mad About You,
they ALWAYS showed the SONY ES system in the
background, and even sometimes they had the main
person, LISTENING to it.
I remember that it had 1 or 2 Sony N80ES power amps,
along with some other gear.
NOW I REMEMBER, Tom Cruise in the movie
where he plays the Bob Seger song.
Also, Ferris Buller`s Day Off, they show a
Caver system.

I think it was "The Italian Job" where the guy played by Seth Green wanted to get a high end system with his money from the heist. At the end of the movie, I believe it showed him in his home with a pair of Martin Logans.

You're right about Hollywood - I can't think of one. But if you want to see a movie that combines passion for music (opera) with high quality audio and recording (Nagra), check out "Diva". Very highly recommended cult classic!

Dude check out Christian Bales system in "American Psycho".
"Do you like Phil Collins?" HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEH.

There was also a SOTA moonbeam in an episode of the "Sopranos".

Tvad...can't be the cost with $100m budgets commonplace nowadays.

Think of the product placement mileage Martin Logan or Genesis would get placing a pair of their speakers in Stately Wayne Manor in a Batman movie along with a Krell or Audio Research stack with a Wadia cd player. If the audio companies are smart, they would provide the stuff on loan at no cost. Other companies pay to have their products prominently displayed.

Check out Mel Gibson's system in the movie "What Women Want"

Mitch4t,

Yer totally right. What really blows my mind is how many episodes i see of MTV Cribs, showing the high class living of celebritys from all walks of life. Every time i watch these shows i keep an eye out for thier audio gear, and normally im pretty suprised by what i see. Nothing.
They have this huge 4 million dollar home, with all the nice stuff.
However, audio gear is apparently severly lacking, especially since they show the homes of alot of musicians. You see plenty of BOSE Accoustimass systems hooked up to a $20,000 tv, but it seems like the audio systems are nothing more than an afterthought.

You think a musician would be interested in more than a $500.00 HTIB setup for listening.

The only speaker i have seen on cribs that suprised me was a set of Definitive Technologys Bipolar speakers. Cannot remember who'se house that was.

Then you have the television shows. Did anyone else notice the set of Martin Logans in the guy's apartment on the TV series Friends??????
Stuffed next to a wall surrounded by a bunch of junk. Nothing more than a prop. Ml's deserve to be listened to, not just thrown in as a prop. It is sad really.

Then you have that new HBO series Entourage, im not positive about it, because i only saw a few brief glimpses, but in the bar-room of the house there look to be a set of higher-end paradigms flanking the bar on either side.

The only movie i ever saw what appeared to be an "Audiophile" was in the movie "The Sum of All Fears" where in the end, that guy is sitting in his chair listening to opera and totally into it and gets whacked by that stealthy US agent/assassin.

I'll have to watch that movie again sometime, and see if it actully shows the system he is listening to.