What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to?

In the mid-1980's, for a brief period, I took guitar lessons from an individual who had worked as a professional musician in Los Angeles from some point in the 40's through (I believe) the 70's.  He retired up here in the Seattle area and, along with some other musicians, was operating a small music school.  He was also an avid audiophile and was active in at least one such organization in this area.  He owned Martin Logan CLS's and Quicksilver mono blocks.  I remember him saying that it was a combination of "the most transparent speakers" and "the most transparent amplifiers".

Audiophiles (and I am possibly one) usually do not get a basic truth, it's not about the equipment, it's about the music.  I have a nice HiFi but I quite often play old mono records because I like the music on them, including ones that are badly scratched.  I was once a semi-pro musician and I still know 30 or so of them.  Not one has a decent HiFi.  Do they buy speakers, decks and amps?  no, they buy guitars and keyboards and solid music stands that cost more than the usual HiFi amp.  Sorry to be so unimpressive, I have a Thorens TD135, Sansui tube amp into a pair of KLH5's.  and now I spend money, quite a lot, on old vinyl.

 Can't hear music without equipment. If a basic truth is it's not about equipment, just music, might as well just listen to music on an old Sony transistor radio from the 1960's that teenagers would walk around holding up to their ears. That's how I heard most music back in those days. Still loved the songs! 

grist for the mill

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/famous-musicians-and-their-audio-gear.347616/

https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/celebrity-hi-fi-systems/

https://downhomedigital.net/blog/how-stars-listen-to-music/

https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/musicians-who-are-audiophiles.6003/

Article on subject originally from a series in Stereophile.