Are any rock musicians audiophiles?

[pete9012s]

I think Peter Gabriel is and Henry Rollins and possibly Jimmy Page are. Any others?

 

[Vladimir]

Neil Young and his toblerone DAC, Dave Grohl, Jonathan Wilson. Probably few others.

Rock is the genre where absolute piss poor sound quality sells better, so I'm guessing not many are audiophiles.

 

[chebby]

Dead, deaf or coked out of their heads.

 

[nick8858]

Summed it up perfectly Vladimir

 

[Deleted member 2457]

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slash-i-think-theres-something-to-be-said-for-the-sound-quality-on-vinyl/

 

[Gaz37]

They make their own headphones lol

 

[Blacksabbath25]

Me when playing with my daughters toy electric guitar and listening to Ozzy Osborne Tribute album...... the toy guitar comes Out !

Mean while back on topic David Gilmore is a fan of hifi

 

[Vladimir]

His band's album Get Some Go Again scores 6 in the DR Loudness database. That's pretty bad. He must have wen't through a lot of expensive audiophile cables to fix it for reproduction through his system.

 

[Romulus]

I don't know any Rock musicians who are 'audiophiles', but ATC advertise in their website of their 'professional monitors' being used by nunerous famous Rock musicians in the studios, I don't know if that counts within this thread question. However if I was a HiFi Dealer trying to sell hi fi equipment to a customer who loves Rock I would play certain Dire Strait, Pink Floyd, and Gary Moore albums both studio and live - the reason because the albums sound so great on any system whether the system is on budget level or the ultimate high end level which gives me an indication as to how the artists wanted their music to be expressed. Dire Straits never fail even on very basic equipment...!

 

[BigH]

Apparently Paul McCartney is, not sure if he is rock though.

 

[BigH]

Frank Zappa

 

[Andrewjvt]

Sound much better using headphones for sure

As for singling out rock musicians for poor recordings then even simple pop music sounds just as heavy as heavy metal now days
Just play music on random to prove it.

When Katy Perry sounds louder than korn, something's gone wrong.

Billy Corgan has just released a stunning new acoustic LP and had all the chance to make a high dynamic range record.
But the overall volume is so loud it's an annoyance over what is a fantastic LP.
I don't know the actual Dr of it though.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Katy Perry.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Apparently Paul McCartney is, not sure if he is rock though.

Live and Let Die!

 

[chebby]

Apparently Paul McCartney is, not sure if he is rock though.

MOR elevator music.

 

[chris_bates1974]

Jack White?

 

[BigH]

Login problems, I can't reply to any post on here but on other post I can, weird?

 

[BigH]

??

 

[Al ears]

Frank Zappa

I don't think he is any more....

 

[insider9]

Sound much better using headphones for sure

Is that your system Andrew? That's bad if your favourite music sounds better via headphones. I would be changing every component until I can listen to all my favourites and many of them are from Rock and Metal genres.

 

[Andrewjvt]

Sound much better using headphones for sure

Is that your system Andrew? That's bad if your favourite music sounds better via headphones. I would be changing every component until I can listen to all my favourites and many of them are from Rock and Metal genres.

But it's a fact that music is recorded to sound better on headphones/phones etc

 

[insider9]

Sound much better using headphones for sure

Is that your system Andrew? That's bad if your favourite music sounds better via headphones. I would be changing every component until I can listen to all my favourites and many of them are from Rock and Metal genres.

But it's a fact that music is recorded to sound better on headphones/phones etc

It's highly personal. But listening to high energy music via headphones for me is an equivalent of drinking wine through a straw.

 

[radiorog]

I imagine all decent artists are audiophiles to an extent. I'd expect any successful artist to have a system of at least 5k, probably closer to 10k. That's high end before you get ridiculous imo.

 

[BigH]

I imagine all decent artists are audiophiles to an extent. I'd expect any successful artist to have a system of at least 5k, probably closer to 10k. That's high end before you get ridiculous imo.

That's the point many don't seem to bother with expensive systems.

 

[stereoman]

I don't know any Rock musicians who are 'audiophiles',

And this statement can be actually true. Many famous, great rock musicians have only a primary Hi fi knowledge if any at all. It was always my curiosity that so many of them simply record stunning music and have no clue or do not pay attention to the sound quality at home. I cannot confirm this but I really think so. Most just seem to use basic stuff at home...of course with exceptions but still - a great musician does not mean an audiophile... ( and vice versa )

 

[pete9012s]

Some very interesing comments. Thank you. I remember George Michael had a very high end hifi system and also Mike Rutherford had a guy round to install hi fi in his home.

The salesman assumed Mike would want a money no object set up but Mike informed him he just wanted something fairly decent to listen to music casually. Although Mike's 'casual' set up may well have cost a fair bit!

Any Genesis fans may know more about that one?

I know Tony Banks used to listen to music in the old tape deck of his old VW Transporter to see how their music sounded in real world conditions.