What Speakers Do Audio Insiders Own?

Well, reading most any audio magazine (ie, stereophile, the absolute sound, etc...) will let you know what reviewers own themselves. But, most often than not, the reviews own very high end gear. So unless you are shopping in that arena, it may not do you any good.

I think the same holds true with Musicians. I know that Henry Rollins has quite the setup, although I'm not sure what it consists of. Also, Fabio used to have Martin Logan Statement E2's with Krell as the front end.

I think that you'll find that most musicians have pretty crappy systems. So I wouldn't put too much stock in what they're listening to personally. That being said there are some lines of pro speakers that cross over into home audio that are excellent, such as ATC and PMC. AS always though, whenever possible use your own ears. Happy listening!

Stereophile occasionally visits with musicians and producers, and it seems that many of them have boom boxes, don't pay a lot of attention to home audio. But Tony Levin was intereviewed in 2001, not too long after he bought an all Linn system. He was very happy with it.

I know that in the past these individual artists bought/used ATC speakers

Barbara Streisland
AC/DC
Dire Straits
Simple Minds
Suzanne Vega
John Williams
Roger Taylor
Sting
Pink Floyd Studio
Sade
Neneh Cherry
10 CC
Lou reed
Tears for Fears
Mike Oldfield
Robert Plant

The list of studios using ATC is much longer by about a factor of 10 ( possibly because famous artists/individuals may prefer not to make public which speakers they buy)

for a recent list of the latest buyers of ATC speakers see this link;

http://www.atc.gb.net/client_list.html

musicians know that you lose much of the music once it goes into the recording. what hi-fi gives us are 'paintings' of music.... but musicians get the real thing. that being said, there are musicians who enjoy hi-fi, but most of them recognize it as representations only, not absolutely accurate reproduction.... and they don't take it (hi-fi) tooooo seriously.