Celebrity audiophiles

Lenny Kravitz’s rooms are incredibly cool and wonderful.

We recently put up quite a bit of wallpaper. Used to enjoy wallpapering. I have a silvery silk paper in my music room. It really adds to the effect. We also used wallpaper for backing some shelf units, we spent months agreeing on this, in the end we found the wallpaper from a brand we saw in a friend’s guest toilet. It’s often a place of inspiration.


Sly Stone, on the other hand, may have been a la mode in the 1970s, but the whole thing is pretty gruesome, although he does seem to have BBC-type speakers, but in the corner?

Anyway, here’s Nick Mason with a Vertere deck. They are fabulous. Made in Acton, West London.


Looks like the MG-1, not the Reference. He must be running out of cash.

Apparently he was also using a Vertere Phono-1 phono stage. I had one. It only costs about $1,500, but it truly fantastic, and it comes in orange.

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Interesting. Cool audio gear and uncomfortable furniture…


Ralph Johnson - Drummer - Earth, Wind & Fire

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Looks like a bit of an amateurish set-up. That amp is waaaaaay to close to, and also in the way of the speaker.

There, fixed it for you. :wink:

the 2nd “too” you “fixed” is wrong. Also, if we are going to get grammar serious, your reply is two sentences.

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If you meant it as ‘also’, then it isn’t.

In no possible world could I have meant that, Mr. Grammar Police.

You win, Dude. :laughing:

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I know.

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Completely agree. I’m a huge fan of the man, but it almost looks like the amp is touching the speaker! My guess is he bought the speakers after hearing Bob Ludwig’s set up at Gateway when he mastered their last album.

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Interesting and plausible. Imitation is the ultimate form of flattery, and I’d guess Bob’s set-up is top notch.

And here I thought this discussion was going to be about me. Sigh.

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A legend in your own mind!!! :rabbit:

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Al Angen Grand Marshal Axpona

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I thought folks would enjoy this article and the surprise equipment photo in it:

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Wait…

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Hasn’t given me any issues :grinning: Great minds think alike :joy: I guess.

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That seems nice.

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Wow the rack integration into the wall is smart.

Even if you hear no anomalies, maybe it makes sense to try the tube amps not on the speakers…might give you some tube life and SQ benefits :wink:. Consider that there are tube amps suspending the tubes inside the chassis even for use when not placed on speakers, so there really seem severe reasons to minimize resonance for tubes :wink: