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    Just reading this months Word magazine and a interview with John Lydon.
    He says his hobby is Hi Fi, loves a GyroDec and uses different arms and carts.
    His set up costs $10000 and include B&W speakers. He loves the warmth of Valve amps but prefers the power of a class A.
    Who would have thought eh?

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    That is a bit of a surprise, perhaps he could do a turn at a bakeoff or next year at Scalford. Seriously though the PIL stuff I have heard was well recorded so perhaps not such a surprise.

    Does anyone know of other famous UK Audiophile's.


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    I think I remember hearing that Katie Melua had a Scheu turntable, and I saw an interview with one of Atomic Kitten once and there was a Unison Research R1 amplifier in the back ground. Can't think of anyone else.


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    Kate Bush used to be a Naim/Linn Sara owner (with an LP12 no doubt).

    Douglas Adams was a bit of an audiophool, graduating from Isobariks to examples from the Absolute Sounds' (UK importer) portfolio.

    Pink Floyd used ATC's at home at one time (an interview with Richard Wright before he passed on showed an SCM50 in the far background).

    Tina Turner had ATC 50A's

    Dave Formula (Visage) had a Linn/Naim Sara system once as I recall

    I also believe George Harrison had a B&O system in his London flat and Tim Henman and Barry Humphries are other B&O owners

    Richard Carpenter, who wrote Catweazle, Robin of Sherwood and half of the Black Beauty TV series' owns my ATC preamp, 100A's (now SL's) and an LP12/Ittok/Troika I once sold him (oh, and a Levinson CD player as I recall)

    I also remember Jon Moss (Culture Club) was a Studio 99 client. Oh, and Dave Greenslade and Bob Monkhouse bought loads of audio r-r (DG) and video (BM) tapes from us.

    I remember selling a Walkman to Martin Shaw in the late 70's and not recognising him without his perm.....

    Finally, I had a lovely client who bought a Linn/Meridian and Harbeth system from me in the late 70's. When I came to prepare the invoice, it turned out to be Lord Howard - address, Castle Howard....

    Oh yeah, Frank Ifield had a Quad/Tannoy (Chatsworth as I remember) system in the eighties which his son inherited when Dad emigrated back to Australia. The amp was fugged as I remember and needed a full upgrade which wasn't then available easily. The Tannoys had corroded pole pieces according to Lockwoods but still fetched £500 I think (20 years ago), going to the far east as many did and do.
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    Jimmy Page. I don't remember his list of equipment (not difficult to guess) but he has a vast collection of vinyl. There must be a video clip circulating on you tube.
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    jimmy P uses amongst other things a pair of vintage macintosh valve mono blocks.
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    I wonder if the Atomic Kitten who may own the Unison Research Amp was in fact being interviewed at Andy McCluskey place who as a ex member of OMD is more likely to own a decent bit of kit.

    Interesting to read about Studio 99 and Jon Moss, although I lived nearby I used Audio T in West End Lane instead or of course Richer Sounds at Swiss Cottage.

    Perhaps one or two of them may enlighten us with there presence and system pictures

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    Steve Davis had an LP12/Ittok/Karma with krell amps and maggies .

    Richard Branson had the full Linn/Naim active system .

    John Major had a Cyrus set up

    Jimmy Page uses a Technics SL1600 or similar , a vid on utube somewhere.
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    Robert Plant is a Manley Labs man,Sting and paul Mc Cartny both love Zingalli speakers Paul has spent tons of money over the years on HiFi.
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    Gillian Anderson apparently has an Arcam/B&W setup

    A certain hollywood actor with a castle near Bath has a big Naim system (sorry - I was sworn to secrecy!)
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