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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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?
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.
Nice movie, and the guy was a vinyl nut, and about collecting and playing mint LP`s only.
I worked as an Art Department Coordinator on several features on the Sony Studios (formerly called Columbia Pictures) lot in Culver City, as well as working at the Culver Studios and on location films. I can safely say that money for such things would not be an object on a studio feature, however most props and set dressing are rented through the many prop houses in LA. While I have seen Victolas, old wooden radios and Invicta TVs, I have never seen any high end gear for rent at a prop house. This is the primary problem. High end art, yes. High end audio, no.

I can tell you that while working on the feature "Bugsy" one of the set dressers was dressing a night club set and showed me a black and white picture of Rashaan Roland Kirk with three horns in his mouth that she intended to use because of its character. I pointed out to her that the photo had to have been taken from ten to twenty years later than the time period of the film. The photo was never used.
Back to the prop house, I suppose.
Marty
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.