Are there any famous audiophiles?

[Happy_Listener]

Fabio! Italian Model. Romance Novel cover boy and I can't believe it's not butter commercial spokesman. lol... Honestly everyone in America knows him. I met him once. He is a really nice guy and we talked about Hi-Fi for 10 minutes.

 

[Andrewjvt]

An audiophile?
I hate the word with a passion.

 

[Andrewjvt]

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.

Does anyone else think like me that Paul O Grady is the Jimmy saville of the dog world?

 

[Vladimir]

An audiophile? I hate the word with a passion.

Person interested in sound quality and nice kit. It's nothing magical.

 

[mond]

Good question, I've often wondered this,

often wonder what djs (radio) and musicians etc listen to when they get home, I always imagined the late great John Peel had an ancient and very low tech hifi .....

I once saw ad in a hifi mag for EAR (yoshino) amps years ago that listed their famous customers and the only one I remember is Kate Bush......

Slightly off topic but I've know many a musician (non famous) that have been really into music both live and recorded but have invested very little in their hifi, the last one of these was a guy that loved music and his hifi but when I saw it and spotted he was using an acient PYE amp I asked if he had every considered ugrading as it might make his record collection sound a bit better , but he just looked at me like I was mad....... maybe he had a point !