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Funny audio related things you see in movies?

Blumlein 88

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Here is a screen shot I happened upon from the movie Jaws. In background is an vacuum tube Eico oscilloscope and on top is an Eico variable power supply. I never noticed it before. I happen to have both exact pieces. I don't recall them being used at all in the movie. Seems a bad spot tied on the edge of a boat in salt water. Both units having high voltages.

I suppose many have seen House MD and his Sota turntable. I forget the movie now, but one showed a billionaire from the mid 1980's with a pair of Acoustat 2+2 speakers. I doubt 1% of the people knew what they were. I once saw an episode of a TV show that had a Nakamichi Dragon on the shelf in a rich dudes house.

Anyone else have any sightings of such stuff in the background of TV shows or movies?

It has gone the other way too. A movie inspiring audio. Forbidden Planet from the 1950's had an advanced race of people with immense power known as the Krell. One and the same inspiration for Krell amplifiers.

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What happens when the filming stops? The production company probably gave someone the job of buying "expensive kit", but once filming has finished, it's not returned to the store ;)
 
wag the dog
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clear and present danger
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some dat

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sort made me look twice when saw first at local cinema abc 1 in SR-D , JBL control 5 i used LCR three of them back then and same EQ as well
goof , the alien tone on the eq 1KHz doesn't match the tone in soundtrack its a bit lower down in frequency
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JBL appearing in the blues brothers JBL Cabaret 4602
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JBL appearing in cocoon JBL Cabaret 4602
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think word is altec HF horns stuck on the delorean
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Can't find the image, but there's a scene in Bedazzled (1967) where Peter Cook (the devil) is scratching LPs with his fingernails as they roll off the assembly line.
 
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"According to Dan Aykroyd, the horn-shaped loudspeaker atop the Bluesmobile was actually a duplicate of a massive Cold War-era air raid siren (CLM Model 92729DP) installed in the schoolyard at "Our Lady of Annunciation" where Aykroyd attended elementary school while growing up in Ottawa, Canada. The siren was manufactured by a Canadian company called Canadian Line Materials, and Aykroyd specifically requested the same CLM model be used in the movie to portray the loudspeaker the characters affixed to the top of the Bluesmobile and used as a public address system."
 
City Of Lost Children had proper steampunk hifi:
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Plus armies of golden-eared and eagle-eyed nutcases:
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Not a movie... TV, IT Crowd;

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The Departed... bit of McIntosh;

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Back to the Future;

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Mannequin (dept. store scene);

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X-Men First Class;

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JSmith
 
copycat , bang and olufsen cd player 1995
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I know that “as good as it gets” with jack nicholson features a pair of thiel , but I can’t find any pictures :)
 
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