Are there any famous audiophiles?

[steve_1979]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

 

[Gazzip]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

Also Rolf Harris and Sir James Saville.

Edit: Sorry, misread your post.

 

[steve_1979]

*ROFL*

 

[stefanom]

Lou Reed was an audiophile.

 

[chebby]

https://www.whathifi.com/features/15-celebrities-and-their-vinyl-collections

 

[davedotco]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

Back in the day I knew Ian quite well, he wrote some stuff for the music press during the latter days of the punk scene, we used to run into each other quite often, mostly at gigs I was involved with that he was writing about.

A year or two later he was writing for one of the hi-fi mags (Choice?), we were still in touch and I was kind of doing my pr thing. One day we were having a coffee and he said he was quitting and moving to Edinburgh to write crime novels, I new the city quite well at that time and suggested Marchmont as a 'cool' place to live.

Rebus's flat is in Marchmont, I like to think it was my idea...*dirol*

 

[QuestForThe13thNote]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

Also Rolf Harris and Sir James Saville.

Edit: Sorry, misread your post.

They bought their hi Fi from the shop ‘audiophilia’ apparently.

The rug was pulled from underneath me with Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville because I grew up watching and liking them, e.g jim’ll fix it etc, before the court cases. For all I knew they touched so many people in so many different ways.

Before anyone criticises, it’s just a joke....

 

[radiorog]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

*good*

Back in the day I knew Ian quite well, he wrote some stuff for the music press during the latter days of the punk scene, we used to run into each other quite often, mostly at gigs I was involved with that he was writing about.

A year or two later he was writing for one of the hi-fi mags (Choice?), we were still in touch and I was kind of doing my pr thing. One day we were having a coffee and he said he was quitting and moving to Edinburgh to write crime novels, I new the city quite well at that time and suggested Marchmont as a 'cool' place to live.

Rebus's flat is in Marchmont, I like to think it was my idea...*dirol*

 

[steve_1979]

Apples Steve Jobs and the author Ian Rankin are the only ones that I can think of.

Are there any more?

Back in the day I knew Ian quite well, he wrote some stuff for the music press during the latter days of the punk scene, we used to run into each other quite often, mostly at gigs I was involved with that he was writing about.

A year or two later he was writing for one of the hi-fi mags (Choice?), we were still in touch and I was kind of doing my pr thing. One day we were having a coffee and he said he was quitting and moving to Edinburgh to write crime novels, I new the city quite well at that time and suggested Marchmont as a 'cool' place to live.

Rebus's flat is in Marchmont, I like to think it was my idea...*dirol*

Do you remember what hifi Ian Rankin had?

There are some MTM style floorstanders in Rebus's flat in TV series

 

[Vladimir]

President of Macedonia is not only an audiophile, he also is a big tube amp DIY-er. He made few amps for the national radio studio 1 when he worked as program director in his youth.

DIY Fostex speakers with KT90 in class A

He also collects oldy radios.

 

[steve_1979]

President of Macedonia...

Well I wouldn't have voted for him.

He doesn't have a single pair of active speakers.

 

[Vladimir]

President of Macedonia...

Well I wouldn't have voted for him. He doesn't have a single pair of active speakers.

He's a conservative.

 

[lpv]

 

[BigH]

This article is quite inteesting: http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-04-17/my-record-collection-ian-rankin

 

[BigH]

Clint Eastwood

 

[Pedro]

 

[AlmaataKZ]

Prince of Zamunda had a nice reel to reel. Or was it his servant?

 

[Infiniteloop]

President of Macedonia is not only an audiophile, he also is a big tube amp DIY-er. He made few amps for the national radio studio 1 when he worked as program director in his youth.

DIY Fostex speakers with KT90 in class A

He also collects oldy radios.

Looks to be a fellow fan of the awesome 845 Power valve. The man clearly has taste, whatever his politics.....

 

[Vladimir]

Audiophile in private life but he also did PR endorsments for Acoustic Research AR3a and Sony CDP-101.

 

[stefanom]

...and he isn't famous. The president of Macedonia that is.

 

[chebby]

Peter Sellers.

 

[plastic penguin]

'Whispering' Bob Harris from The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Clint Eastwood.

"I'll bust your Arcam, punk".

 

[spiny norman]

...and he isn't famous. The president of Macedonia that is.

He is in Macedonia.

 

[Vladimir]

...and he isn't famous. The president of Macedonia that is.

Milions of people know who he is. I smuggled him on a technicality.

 

[Vladimir]

I'm surprised chebby hasn't mentioned Pierre Sprey being an audiophile.