Spotting audio gear in the movies, TV, etc.

[dyche01]

If you have an eye for cool-looking audio components, you notice that they are sprinkled throughout movies, TV shows, and advertisements. Here is a place to log your sightings.

Here's a start. Can you name all the gear in the system Gene Hackman jams with at the end of The Conversation?

 

[dyche01]

In Stranger Things 2, Murray Bauman's lair has some interesting old speakers.

 

[RedShift42]

In Stranger Things 2, Murray Bauman's lair has some interesting old speakers.

There's been a few teases in that show, including the TT in the sheriff's cabin.

 

[bigcaddy64]

i dont have a pic at the moment but in season 1 of Bosch, you see Harry Bosch walk into his Hollywood Hills home and fire up a tube amp/TT so he can listen to jazz. The whole series has a great Jazz playlist from some great artists.

 

[triode17]

In Stranger Things 2, Murray Bauman's lair has some interesting old speakers.

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Those are just old junky speakers from the props department.

 

[Drugolf]

Watching Kingsmen last night saw some nice looking speakers in the corners of an office.

 

[woodj]

I cannot quite fathom excitement about movie/media props.

 

[mike0565]

It's a shame that HBO cancelled the series Vinyl, I enjoyed the show plus it had a bunch of vintage gear that was always in the back drop of scenes.

 

[luxmaster]

It's a shame that HBO cancelled the series Vinyl, I enjoyed the show plus it had a bunch of vintage gear that was always in the back drop of scenes.

I didnt think Vinyl was a great show. I wanted it to be good but it was hard to watch. It was very over the top and a tunnel view of the music industry back then. However one show that i love to watch is Deuce. I hope they come back for a 2nd season.

 

[triode17]

Whenever I watch a movie from the late 50's to early 60's, I always look for the stereo console in a living room scene.

 

[Chip Chester]

There's a whole wall of Ampex 440 tape machines at the beginning of Counterpart, on Starz Network.

Short snipped in there; more within the show itself in the 'interrogation room'.

 

[dyche01]

I cannot quite fathom excitement about movie/media props.

You never know what you might discover hiding in plain sight:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...art-historian-long-lost-hungarian-masterpiece

 

[dyche01]

Here's a whole thread about spotting a Fisher 500C in the Maysles Brother's documentary 'Grey Gardens'

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....this-in-grey-gardens-1975-documentary.811979/

 

[Todd Dodds]

There's a whole wall of Ampex 440 tape machines at the beginning of Counterpart, on Starz Network.

Short snipped in there; more within the show itself in the 'interrogation room'.

Episode 1 has a scene with Howard spinning a record, but I didn't catch his gear, and haven't had the chance to "rewind" and look for it. Maybe someone here caught it?

 

[Awesomeaudio]

This is a cool thread.
I have actually had many moments watching various films where I've spotted the odd bit of HiFi gear or even reel to reel machines in the background.
I'll post back when I revisit them.
Cheers guys

 

[mcyuke]

Episode 1 has a scene with Howard spinning a record, but I didn't catch his gear, and haven't had the chance to "rewind" and look for it. Maybe someone here caught it?

I actually grabbed a screenshot from that episode and uploaded it a while back to share on another community.

There is a Cambridge Audio network player sitting on top of what I believe must be one of their integrated amplifiers, with a Thorens table? sitting on top of the stack.
Later on in the episode there is another shot of the gear but I didn't bother getting another screenshot of that.
I can load up the episode again if wanted and get a snap from the end of the episode as the headshell/cartridge clearly shows the Thorens name.

Edit: Forgot to mention that there is an awful lot of albums sitting on the shelves and it makes me wonder if there are any treasures hiding in there? A lot of the stuff I can read points towards Howard being a Jazzman.




And I also grabbed a screenshot from the TV show Elementary that has the best overview of Sherlockes McIntosh and Energy Veritas system that I've seen so far while watching the show.

 

[mcyuke]

I went and got a couple pictures from the end of the first episode of Counterpart where it shows the cartridge and a better side view of the turntable.

 

[Bruins]

Kevin Can Wait, in the first season, not sure what episodes but you see a very nice Yamaha Receiver.

 

[N8Nagel]

Some of you know this I'm sure, the stereo in American Psycho was a HK 700 series stack with a different HK cassette deck. I actually own that exact setup complete with the EQ but will be retiring most of it soon as the similar HK 775 mono amps (movie used a 770 stereo amp) seem for some reason noticeably better.

 

[Harvestor]

the television series Chuck was good for this..... Cerwin Vega XLS 215 s behind him on the left