# Jimmy Carter, President, Audiophile

**URL:** <https://forum.psaudio.com/t/jimmy-carter-president-audiophile/18970>\
**Category:** Everything Else\
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/jimmy-carter-president-audiophile/18970 "2020-09-11T14:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![trey0thompson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@trey0thompson](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/trey0thompson)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/jimmy-carter-president-audiophile/18970/1 "2020-09-11T14:38:21Z")

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Apparently Jimmy Carter appreciated good gear (quote from LA Times article):

In the film, Chip recalls growing up in a household teeming with music, describing his father investing in what he called the most expensive stereo system in Plains, Ga. For audiophiles, what Chip lists when asked about it is instructive: “A McIntosh amplifier with [AR1 speakers](http://acousticresearchspeakers.net/2015/12/acoustic-research-ar-1-vintage-speaker-with-altec-755a-755-a-ar1-ar-walnut-laq/). We were in a pre-Civil War house, and he bought the best back then.” Referencing Henry Mancini’s hit “The Baby Elephant Walk,” Chip said, “The whole house would shake when the baby elephant walked. You couldn’t get it wrong, with the bass pounding.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-09/jimmy-carter-president-white-house-willie-nelson-allman-brothers-documentary

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**Author:** ![dancingsea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dancingsea](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/dancingsea)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/jimmy-carter-president-audiophile/18970/2 "2020-09-14T00:14:09Z")

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Jimmy Carter was also a Deadhead 🕶