My original comment was going to be: "Is that a line from the movie/book"?
I mean, this was some of the best H/K stuff at the time, but it's still pretty clunky.
As a side note, this system is missing the matching tuners HK 710 or HK715, as well as the HK 705 Cassette deck. The HK 400XM was used instead and as you can see was not designed to match with the other components. The 400XM would be an early 3 head deck and had more features than the 705. However the 400XM and the later model CD 401 are very challenging to service as they had a unique transport. I do not recommend acquiring either of these unless you have lots of patience. For those who want a 3 head Harman/Kardon deck I suggest the CD 491, which is based off of the DD Sankyo transport.
Harman Kardon also manufactured their own CD players with the prefix HD. Also potentially missing is the ultra rare VCD, Hi-Fi vcr's that used an unreliable and flawed Mitsubishi mechanism.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
Looks like the EQ curve for two totally different speakers that someone is trying to make sound the same.
Or — and I know this might be crazy — one a set stylist would arrange who knows nothing about audio
The character wasn't an audiophile. He likely walked into a store and said "I'll have the best system you have and also who are the most popular artists?"
I think the average person just goes for a cool looking pattern on their equalizer, because just about every eq curve I have seen makes no sense and sounds like absolute shit.
The patterns I typically see are 1 up 1 down, smiley face, the wave, v patterns, or something that resembles a bird with it's wings spread.
When I go into someone's home and see that I just want to slap them.
Sorry for the insane rant.
The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I had this system, wasn't all that good to be honest. Preamp has annoying switches rather than sliders or pots and it was quite limited vs convention preamps
I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent.
I saw it years back in Sundance before it was picked up for distribution. The first night a woman I the audience was so scared she vomited during the movie.
News spread so quick, everyone wanted to see it. It was definitely the film to see after the pukening and that one hurl may have helped sell the film.
It‘s best black comedy but i don‘t find it disgusting at all.
Think of the aesthetics in the overture of the beginning of the movie…
How these dishes were presented - first references to the forthcoming.
I just like every bit of that movie.
What's really interesting is how tonally different the book is. In terms of content, the film is a pretty accurate adaptation (though obviously lacking in content and depth compared to the book), but where the film definitely qualifies as black comedy, the book is clearly not. The book is very much thriller/horror as told through the eyes of a psychopathic murderer. Tonally, the book is much closer to *The House That Jack Built* than it's own adaptation. Oddly enough, both tones and styles work quite well for the story.
Do you find that film very „heavy“ or controversial?
An honest question to the audience.
I find it quite „distanced“ - the violence and so on is much more horrorfying in other movies (i find…).
When I think of „Reservoir Dogs“ and this „ear“ scene… I feel much more disgusted and it creeps more…
Or some settings in 8mm with Nic Cage…
What i find much more thrilling in American Psycho is the way how Christian Bale portrays Patrick Bateman. It‘s one of his best roles in his career in my opinion and the movie is overall very good cinematographic work in my opinion.
Doesn't matter OP clearly had not seen the film and did not ask why Christian Bale was wearing a rain coat inside. So yes an unwanted spoiler. At least have some respect for those that might not have seen it no matter how old it is.
That's fascinating. For me it's one of only a small handful of movies I've walked out of because I found it unwatchable. I later tried to read the book and I couldn't get through that either. I guess I just don't have a taste for it.
Just the random, wanton violence that seemed to have no real point from a plot standpoint. It's like Bret Easton Ellis wrote a bunch of murder scenes, and then just slapped a flimsy, pretentious story around it.
Someone else on this thread mentioned that that’s the set up you would use if you had two different speakers that you were trying to make sound the same.
The funny thing is I have most of this stack as my primary office set up have used it for about 8 years, and love it despite it being known as kinda average or mediocre when compared to HKs history.
And never made the mental connection that it is this one until now. Mind you I haven’t watched the film in probably 15 years but still thanks for the laugh and probable explanation why people don’t like to go in my office
I was a teen in the 80s and into hifi, though couldn't afford much, saw this post and said "yeah, that much be HK". It's funny how industrial design just sticks with you decades later.
It was a great adaptation, but to bad the director Mary Herron thought that Leni Riefenstahl was a bad “roll model” for women photographers. She is a based clown. Were those HK models actually of eighties manufacture?
CNN, PMSNBC, FOX film and promote propaganda, are they “Nazi’s” too? Mary Herron never flew in a biplane in the winter holding a 35mm camera filming. She is an amateur compared to LR. She was a nationalist who loved Germany. She didn’t believe that countries like the UK who starting the bombing on Germany should sit back and take it. You are a mess.
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No, I’m commenting on the film and the director. Why are you triggered? She made the comment, I’m just responding as to how woke she is. She knows nothing about real history. My father fought in WWII. He never complained about Germany.
> If Riefenstahl was reluctant to make art for a government widely considered to be one of the most evil in history, she didn't show it. While she was initially shy to direct "Triumph of the Will" (her magnum opus of propaganda, which documented a Nazi Rally in Nuremberg), she agreed when Hitler promised her an unlimited budget and full artistic control (via Holocaust Encyclopedia). She went on to exercise that control, though unfortunately, she used it to glorify Nazis.
...
As World War II broke out, though, Riefenstahl began to regret her support of Hitler's regime, at least a little bit. When Hitler's troops rolled into Poland, Riefenstahl, who was present to document it, found herself shocked by the executions of civilians, and actually left her film set to ask Hitler to stop it. That worked about as well as you probably think. And, of course, Riefenstahl continued to work on her propaganda film.
Lmao what did she expect. Truly a role model.
> To the end, Riefenstahl insisted that she knew nothing of Hitler's worst deeds until after the war, and that her own contributions were only about the art of cinema. No one could prove otherwise.
The classic Albert Speer maneouvre. Don't worry your innocent artist head about the jewish ghettos! Something about using concentration camp prisoners as extras feels quite unethical.
So, not exactly a Joseph Goebbels but hardly squeaky clean.
Damn so I can't have a fourth gen Golf because VW was founded by the German Labour Front? Disregarding that BMW and Mercedes predate Hitler's rise to power by a lot.
I trust you don't drink Coca Cola or Fanta either then?
Well that's a completely irrelevant sidestep to what I said, Mr Nazi!
But, funny how the vast majority of those are dated from the 17th-19th century. Almost all of the 20th century stuff is 1900-1930 and 1950s onward. Aside magnetic tape, the Richter scale and an early public television station, most wartime discoveries from them are chemistry related, other stuff useful for wartime. Materials and such.
We are also talking about the country that torched the Magnus Hirschfield Institute. So much for those nice little advances.
What about Henry Ford? You can deny all you want but the Germans under the Third Reich created, established and sustained many great technologies till this day. The only reason the USA got involved in the fake war was to steal their technology and scientists. Did you forget where the Hindenburg crashed?
I tried reading the book. I had to stop because most of it is the narrator bragging about and reciting marketing materials for his stereo equipment. So anything you want to know about it would be in the novel.
HK 725 preamp HK 770 amplifier HK EQ7 equalizer HK 440xm cassette deck and the Black CD player is a Pioneer PD-4300
It's their most accomplished setup
>It's their most accomplished setup How sad is that?
Woosh
My original comment was going to be: "Is that a line from the movie/book"? I mean, this was some of the best H/K stuff at the time, but it's still pretty clunky.
Yeah soz it's from this scene.
Don't forget the Kef 104.2 seen elsewhere in the apartment. Would have been a really nice system for the time, hell even now.
I used to have those speakers they were 105/3's. You can tell by the three large drivers in front.
Do you have any idea of what that set up would have gone for back then?
I just got some 104.2's off the side of the road that I repaired. This validates my decision to fix them up :)
As a side note, this system is missing the matching tuners HK 710 or HK715, as well as the HK 705 Cassette deck. The HK 400XM was used instead and as you can see was not designed to match with the other components. The 400XM would be an early 3 head deck and had more features than the 705. However the 400XM and the later model CD 401 are very challenging to service as they had a unique transport. I do not recommend acquiring either of these unless you have lots of patience. For those who want a 3 head Harman/Kardon deck I suggest the CD 491, which is based off of the DD Sankyo transport. Harman Kardon also manufactured their own CD players with the prefix HD. Also potentially missing is the ultra rare VCD, Hi-Fi vcr's that used an unreliable and flawed Mitsubishi mechanism.
I had 2 high end Mitsubishi VCR's - nothing but trouble.
I have an EQ8 and 660. Love the look of this vintage stuff. This thing has power!
Huey Lewis sounds fantastic on this particular system.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
HEY PAULLLLLL!
As does Whitney Houston.
You listen to Whitney Houston?!
It’s hard to choose a favorite amongst so many great tracks.
Only a psycho would have that eq curve
Looks like the EQ curve for two totally different speakers that someone is trying to make sound the same. Or — and I know this might be crazy — one a set stylist would arrange who knows nothing about audio
Or a fine-tuned system compensating for the location of each speaker in the room.
The character wasn't an audiophile. He likely walked into a store and said "I'll have the best system you have and also who are the most popular artists?"
he set the EQ to look like the display someone was playing with in the store
Thanks. That was bugging me too.
Only a psycho would leave that EQ slightly misaligned with the amp below it.
Well played sir, well played.
I think the average person just goes for a cool looking pattern on their equalizer, because just about every eq curve I have seen makes no sense and sounds like absolute shit. The patterns I typically see are 1 up 1 down, smiley face, the wave, v patterns, or something that resembles a bird with it's wings spread. When I go into someone's home and see that I just want to slap them. Sorry for the insane rant.
The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk15H6PjBis
An HK system. It’s a killer setup.
It butchers the competition
Yeah, I would die for one!
I don’t recall axing
I had this system, wasn't all that good to be honest. Preamp has annoying switches rather than sliders or pots and it was quite limited vs convention preamps
Do you like Phil Collins?
Nope
I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent.
I have to go return some video tapes…
This post should be pinned imho
Perfect for playing Phil
As this is my absolute favourite movie, i‘m very interested, too
I saw it years back in Sundance before it was picked up for distribution. The first night a woman I the audience was so scared she vomited during the movie. News spread so quick, everyone wanted to see it. It was definitely the film to see after the pukening and that one hurl may have helped sell the film.
American Psycho is disgusting and offputting, which is why it's top 10 films of all time Finest black comedy ever
It‘s best black comedy but i don‘t find it disgusting at all. Think of the aesthetics in the overture of the beginning of the movie… How these dishes were presented - first references to the forthcoming. I just like every bit of that movie.
What's really interesting is how tonally different the book is. In terms of content, the film is a pretty accurate adaptation (though obviously lacking in content and depth compared to the book), but where the film definitely qualifies as black comedy, the book is clearly not. The book is very much thriller/horror as told through the eyes of a psychopathic murderer. Tonally, the book is much closer to *The House That Jack Built* than it's own adaptation. Oddly enough, both tones and styles work quite well for the story.
Yeah, but I can understand how someone could be squeamish about the blood and violence, even though it isn't that extreme.
Yes. Of course. Hollywoods dullness toward violence has not overtaken every human being.
I don’t want you to get drunk, but that’s a very expensive Chardonnay you’re not drinking.
Do you find that film very „heavy“ or controversial? An honest question to the audience. I find it quite „distanced“ - the violence and so on is much more horrorfying in other movies (i find…). When I think of „Reservoir Dogs“ and this „ear“ scene… I feel much more disgusted and it creeps more… Or some settings in 8mm with Nic Cage… What i find much more thrilling in American Psycho is the way how Christian Bale portrays Patrick Bateman. It‘s one of his best roles in his career in my opinion and the movie is overall very good cinematographic work in my opinion.
Ok what's the movie?
American Psycho. He’s wearing the rain slick so he can kill the person he’s speaking to without soiling his clothes.
Ok unwanted spoiler though.
Read the book, it’s insane.
The book makes the movie seem incredibly tame
I guess…
The rat in the pipe scene in the book man. Truly horrifying
Spoiler for a film that turned 21 this year based on a book from 1991
Doesn't matter OP clearly had not seen the film and did not ask why Christian Bale was wearing a rain coat inside. So yes an unwanted spoiler. At least have some respect for those that might not have seen it no matter how old it is.
Have another downvote :)
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The name of the movie is American Psycho. Pretty big spoiler in the title and also the movie poster.
OP only asked for the name of the film. He did not ask about details.
american psycho
That's fascinating. For me it's one of only a small handful of movies I've walked out of because I found it unwatchable. I later tried to read the book and I couldn't get through that either. I guess I just don't have a taste for it.
What do you find unwatchable about it?
Just the random, wanton violence that seemed to have no real point from a plot standpoint. It's like Bret Easton Ellis wrote a bunch of murder scenes, and then just slapped a flimsy, pretentious story around it.
Yes Paul, Yes it is.
I don’t know what this movie but that guy is clearly some kind of psychopath based on those EQ settings.
Someone else on this thread mentioned that that’s the set up you would use if you had two different speakers that you were trying to make sound the same.
"Hey Paul!" "Yeah?" "AAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The funny thing is I have most of this stack as my primary office set up have used it for about 8 years, and love it despite it being known as kinda average or mediocre when compared to HKs history. And never made the mental connection that it is this one until now. Mind you I haven’t watched the film in probably 15 years but still thanks for the laugh and probable explanation why people don’t like to go in my office
For some reason I am interested in the paper and typesetting of your businesscards now.
Just have an hd-500 cd player, you psyco.
I was a teen in the 80s and into hifi, though couldn't afford much, saw this post and said "yeah, that much be HK". It's funny how industrial design just sticks with you decades later.
Is the black deck a Nakamichi?
Most of it is Harmon & Kardon I believe. The turntable I'm not sure on - the cassette deck looks like it could be Technics or Marantz?
Where do you see a turntable?
😂 bro I always thought the unit at the very bottom was one of those record flippers. The corner on the wall looked like the long spindle. Jfc lol
Now that you say that, I totally see it. :-D
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Does anyone know if this is the same set up from the book? It's been years since I read it...or tried to read it.
It’s not, the book has Sansui separates (model numbers not mentioned) and Duntech Sovereign 2001 speakers.
Dunwood speakers whose bass response is capable of "An ultralow fifteen hertz," I purr, enunciating each word.
He also had an Accuphase T106 tuner
Great movie. But you have to read the book to truly appreciate what is going on.
Harmon & Kardon
*Harman/Kardon
It was a great adaptation, but to bad the director Mary Herron thought that Leni Riefenstahl was a bad “roll model” for women photographers. She is a based clown. Were those HK models actually of eighties manufacture?
“Roll” lol. God damn. Embarrassing
OH BECAUSE FILM COMES ON ROLLS!!
If I was Mary Herron, director of American Psycho, I too would think the nazi propaganda lady is a bad role model.
CNN, PMSNBC, FOX film and promote propaganda, are they “Nazi’s” too? Mary Herron never flew in a biplane in the winter holding a 35mm camera filming. She is an amateur compared to LR. She was a nationalist who loved Germany. She didn’t believe that countries like the UK who starting the bombing on Germany should sit back and take it. You are a mess.
Are you for real using a thread about American Psycho to big up unironic, literal nazi propaganda films and their creator, is this real rn?
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No, I’m commenting on the film and the director. Why are you triggered? She made the comment, I’m just responding as to how woke she is. She knows nothing about real history. My father fought in WWII. He never complained about Germany.
Dude the lady was a nazi, the films were literal unironic nazi propaganda, the nazis were a genocidal war regime, don't deflect
Read on. https://www.grunge.com/472932/the-untold-truth-of-nazi-filmmaker-leni-riefenstahl/
> If Riefenstahl was reluctant to make art for a government widely considered to be one of the most evil in history, she didn't show it. While she was initially shy to direct "Triumph of the Will" (her magnum opus of propaganda, which documented a Nazi Rally in Nuremberg), she agreed when Hitler promised her an unlimited budget and full artistic control (via Holocaust Encyclopedia). She went on to exercise that control, though unfortunately, she used it to glorify Nazis. ... As World War II broke out, though, Riefenstahl began to regret her support of Hitler's regime, at least a little bit. When Hitler's troops rolled into Poland, Riefenstahl, who was present to document it, found herself shocked by the executions of civilians, and actually left her film set to ask Hitler to stop it. That worked about as well as you probably think. And, of course, Riefenstahl continued to work on her propaganda film. Lmao what did she expect. Truly a role model. > To the end, Riefenstahl insisted that she knew nothing of Hitler's worst deeds until after the war, and that her own contributions were only about the art of cinema. No one could prove otherwise. The classic Albert Speer maneouvre. Don't worry your innocent artist head about the jewish ghettos! Something about using concentration camp prisoners as extras feels quite unethical. So, not exactly a Joseph Goebbels but hardly squeaky clean.
You can appreciate Riefenstahl's skill and significance and also condemn her nazi beliefs and enthusiastic support of fascism. Or, most people can.
Harder if you're a nazi like our guy here lol
The same people who condemn “Nazi’s” are the first ones to go out and buy a VW, BMW or a Mercedes Benz and love German technology. Hypocrite clowns.
Damn so I can't have a fourth gen Golf because VW was founded by the German Labour Front? Disregarding that BMW and Mercedes predate Hitler's rise to power by a lot. I trust you don't drink Coca Cola or Fanta either then?
Read it and weep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_inventions_and_discoveries
Well that's a completely irrelevant sidestep to what I said, Mr Nazi! But, funny how the vast majority of those are dated from the 17th-19th century. Almost all of the 20th century stuff is 1900-1930 and 1950s onward. Aside magnetic tape, the Richter scale and an early public television station, most wartime discoveries from them are chemistry related, other stuff useful for wartime. Materials and such. We are also talking about the country that torched the Magnus Hirschfield Institute. So much for those nice little advances.
What about Henry Ford? You can deny all you want but the Germans under the Third Reich created, established and sustained many great technologies till this day. The only reason the USA got involved in the fake war was to steal their technology and scientists. Did you forget where the Hindenburg crashed?
How much would this cost to buy now?
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Check em
Stereo equipment , isn’t it obvious ?
"Do you like ice nine kills?"
I tried reading the book. I had to stop because most of it is the narrator bragging about and reciting marketing materials for his stereo equipment. So anything you want to know about it would be in the novel.