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I have just started watching Mix Tape on iPlayer, so far so so good after the first episode.
I always take an interest when I see a HiFi system in a movie or TV show. One of the best examples is High Fidelity (2000), Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is into music not gadgets and toys. His system is a perfect mishmash of Marantz, Sansui, and NAD. In total contrast, a different type of HiFi owner is perfectly parodied in American Psycho (also 2000). Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) the yuppie who is more interested in the system, and what it says about him has an oh so 80's white Harman Kardon system.
My personal favourite is the TV show Bosch. The jazz loving detective has a pair of Ohm Walsh 4 speakers, a vintage Marantz turntable, and a McIntosh power and preamp.
This brings me back to Mix Tape, based on the book of the same name by Jane Sanderson. One of the main characters is a music journalist who we fist meet as a music obsessed teenager in the late 80's. In the present day we get a glimpse of his amp, a Luxman L80, and a what is either a Linn Sondek LP12 or one of the numerous record players of that style. This is the perfect system for the character, an expensive vintage setup that the character wouldn't have been able to afford in his youth. (edited to say we get a better look at the record player later, a Thorens TD160, and a pair of Rogers loudspeakers (possibly LS2) horribly positioned in a corner)
Is it just me, or does anyone else pause pause to look at these things? Do you look for the terribly positioned speakers, or the lack of cables, or just wonder if the system fits the character?
I always take an interest when I see a HiFi system in a movie or TV show. One of the best examples is High Fidelity (2000), Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is into music not gadgets and toys. His system is a perfect mishmash of Marantz, Sansui, and NAD. In total contrast, a different type of HiFi owner is perfectly parodied in American Psycho (also 2000). Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) the yuppie who is more interested in the system, and what it says about him has an oh so 80's white Harman Kardon system.
My personal favourite is the TV show Bosch. The jazz loving detective has a pair of Ohm Walsh 4 speakers, a vintage Marantz turntable, and a McIntosh power and preamp.
This brings me back to Mix Tape, based on the book of the same name by Jane Sanderson. One of the main characters is a music journalist who we fist meet as a music obsessed teenager in the late 80's. In the present day we get a glimpse of his amp, a Luxman L80, and a what is either a Linn Sondek LP12 or one of the numerous record players of that style. This is the perfect system for the character, an expensive vintage setup that the character wouldn't have been able to afford in his youth. (edited to say we get a better look at the record player later, a Thorens TD160, and a pair of Rogers loudspeakers (possibly LS2) horribly positioned in a corner)
Is it just me, or does anyone else pause pause to look at these things? Do you look for the terribly positioned speakers, or the lack of cables, or just wonder if the system fits the character?
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